A Study On Hakka Sheri Custom
—— As a case of Potou village in Longtan town of Bobai County
Abstract
This paper is based on the reality from field survey, through the Sheri custom description of the Hakka community in Potou village in Longtan town of Bobai County, to show its different manifestations in different historical periods, pointing out that the function of Sheri custom in Hakka communities in Potou village is not fully limited to meet the psychological needs of disaster blessing, but with a moral education, encouraging success, entertain neighborhood’s unity, and strengthen the social functions of identity, and also analyze and point out that the Sheri custom of Hakka community in Potou village has a significant role in building a new socialist countryside.
Key words: Bobai Hakka, Potou village in Longtan town, Sheri custom, new countryside
