This festival origin an ancient China legend which is about Nüwa mends sky. Nuwa is a goddess who created the human. One …show more content…
This characteristic told me that we are not born for culture but culture learned from surrounding. The process of how we obtain the culture knowledge is called enculturation. Enculturation indicates the learning with one’s culture environment. Enculturation always happens through interaction, observation, and simulation, all talked about how we experienced. Right here, I learned the Hakka culture from the perspective of festival through folktales, legends and myths, and also through mass media. [Samovar, Porter and McDaniel, …show more content…
In Malaysia, I found that the first large celebration for Tian Chuan Jie only started in year 2013 although this traditional festival had a long time ago. The main reason I think is this festival not popular in Malaysian Chinese, especially Hakka themselves. I think there is only minority group of people know about Tian Chuan Jie, may be in the small Hakka village or small Hakka community. I believe that many Hakka do not really know about the festival Tian Chuan Jie. As personally, I was born in Hakka family which my father is Hakka, but I totally do not know there exists this festival and even my father also do not know about