A highlight on HakkaWA’s events and activities for the year ended 30 June 2018.

Few people are aware that there is another equally fascinating performance known as the “Unicorn Dance”. This mythical creature is known in East Asian countries as “Qilin”. The Chinese unicorn is thought to have dragon-like features. The head is unique, with eyes with thick eyelashes, manes that always flow upward and prominent beards. The bodies are fully or partially scaled, though often shaped like an ox, deer or horse’s, and always with cloven hooves. It is endowed with antlers.

The Hakka’s ancestors were often said to have arrived from what is today’s central China centuries ago. The worldwide population of Hakkas is about 80 million.

The World Hakka Conference was founded by the Hong Kong Tsung Tsin Association in 1971. The Hakka Associations outside of mainland China were the driving forces behind the World Hakka Conferences until 1994 when China hosted it for the first time in Meizhou, Guangdong.