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Pickling Classes Teach Younger Generation To Preserve Hakka Traditions
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4/1/2025
A series of DIY workshops is bringing the food culture of Taiwan's Hakka people to children in a hands-on way in rural Hsinchu County.
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Here in rural Hsinchu County, most of the people you meet are Hakka, a people of Chinese
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origin with their own language, way of life, and way of cooking.
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Preserving food through drying and pickling is a big part of food culture here.
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And the winter is one time when there's lots of pickling to do for the year ahead,
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with rich fields of radishes and seasonal greens ready for harvest.
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Kids here would once have grown up with pickling all around them, but these days it's common
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to buy pre-made pickles from the supermarket.
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To get back to this Hakka tradition, one local pickle maker is offering classes aimed at
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families looking for a day of DIY fun.
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But this pickling tradition doesn't have to be preserved the same way for all time.
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And here, new flavors of pickles are even being invented, using local produce the kids
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can pick themselves.
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For Hakka children who take the class, this can be more than a culinary adventure.
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It can also be a chance to practice the Hakka language, which, despite vigorous revival
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efforts, is still being eroded by years of out-migration from Hakka villages and official
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promotion of Mandarin.
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And the parents, some of them Hakka speakers too, find it good education for the kids about
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where food comes from, the land.
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These workshops are a chance to learn something new as a family, and for local Hakka people,
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it's also a chance to get back to old family roots, preserving a way of life along with
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the vegetables.
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Justin Wu and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.
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