Wherever they have congregated--the mountains of southern Jiangxi Province, Mei County in Guangdong, the outskirts of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, or the counties of Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, and Pingtung--the Hakkas have never lived in big cities, thus their communities have never developed to a high level of political, economic, or cultural prominence.
從中國大陸贛南山區、廣東梅縣、四川成都市近郊，一直到台灣的桃、竹、苗及屏東等地，客家莊從來不是通都大邑，也從來沒機會發展成政治、經濟或文化重鎮。