dc.description.abstract | To deepen the Hakka Culture, the Taoyuan city government, based on the advantage of having the third largest Hakka population among all counties and cities in Taiwan, has Campaignadopted a policy of Hakka festivals to explore the relationship with collective memories.
This study is based on the three major Hakka festival policies promoted by the Hakka Affairs Bureau of the Taoyuan City Government as the theme of the study.
First, taking advantage of the fact that Taoyuan City has the largest number of The Three Realm Temple in Taiwan, it is the first city in Taiwan to use The Three Realm deities as the theme, linking the characteristic The Three Realm Temple in Taoyuan City and organizing the " The Three Realm Deities Cultural Festival" in the form of a rotating system.
Second, to remembrance the brave resistance of Hakka ancestry and the spirit of protecting homeland and properties, the "Yimin Cultural Festival" combines the Yimin faith with the special rotating ritual system in Southern Taoyuan and the Yimin spirit of defending the family and property during the Hakka Resistance against Japanese occupating operation of Taiwan in 1895.
Third, the "Oceanhakka Culture and Art Season" is the only event in Taiwan where the Hakka community lives a half-farming, half-fishing lifestyle, cultivating the sea and the fields, and preserving the traditional fishing cultures of traps, rock shelters, and seashell whistling.
Through the above three Hakka festivals in Taoyuan, this study aims to inherit the Hakka culture and promote ethnic integration, to re-create Hakka-specific festivals as the highlights, and to construct a Hakka festival policy with the vision of making Hakka as the environment for sustainable development.
By using literature analysis and in-depth interviews, and using the new institutional theory and ethnicity theory, this study explores the demand of Hakka policy on Hakka festivals and the effect of Hakka festivals on the collective memory of Hakka families by using the new institutional theory and ethnicity theory as the analyzing variables. This paper finds that: (1) Hakka festivals construct Hakka collective memory through community awareness and identity; (2) Top-down Hakka policies can function as Hakka collective memory; and (3) Refined Hakka policies can better construct Hakka collective memory according to local conditions. | en_US |