臺灣客家族群的觸角早已深植在各個鄉鎮和角落，近年來客委會致力於對客家語言和文化的推廣及保存，臺灣眾人皆知的客家聚落就屬於桃竹苗和屏東六堆地區，因為顯性的客家文化指標在桃竹苗和六堆的地區非常的明顯再加上客家族群數相對的集中於這些地方，還是有許多地方有客家族群的足跡，但相較於北部客和南部六堆，大林鎮是呈現較隱性的型態。 本研究主要以文獻為主軸，以論述性的方式探討臺灣漳州客籍人士的遷移過程，再以臺灣漳洲客家發展之背景對大林鎮進行田野調查，藉由探討臺灣客家移民文史資料來了解大林鎮客家分布情形，並依據田野資料對大林鎮漳洲客家分布進行分析。 調查結果顯示，大林鎮以福建漳洲客家族群為最多數，分布於大林鎮的東北邊，分別是三村里、三角里、溝背里、義和里、內林里、過溪里、三和里、大美里。其原因以移民文史資料認為，初期墾首大林鎮為福建漳州海澄人薛允珍，又帶領部屬和族人在三角里築十股圳，引梅山下游溪水和華興溪之水源入東北地區供人民使用，生活因此得到便利。另一因素認為，在清領時期臺灣分類械鬥頻傳，基於同祖籍地緣、族群認同和政治操弄之影響，不同族群更加的團結，而產生漳洲客家族群現況所分布的現象。 The Taiwanese Hakka tentacles have been deeply rooted nearly everywhere. In recent years, the Hakka Affairs Council has been devoted to promote and reserve the Hakka language and couture. The most famous Hakka communities are located in the Tao-Chu-Miao and Liutui of Pingtong countie because the couture dominance is very obvious in those areas. However, the Hakka steps can still be found in other places. For example, the Dalin township of Chiayi County is a place with implicit Hakka characteristics compares to those two areas mentioned above. This study uses literatures as its core to describe the immigration process of the Changchou -Hakka people of Taiwan. Then the study performs fieldwork on the Dalin town based on the development background of the Changchou -Hakka. The results shows that most of the Hakka in Dalin are from the Changchou , Fujian. Most of them spreads on Sancun、Sanjiao、Goubei、Yihan、Neilin、Guoxi、Sanhan and Damei. Based on the immigration documents, a person called Yunzhen Xue is one of the people who first arrives in town and lead his people to build Shigu Canal in the Sanjiao. They drained water from the Meishan township and Hwuasin river to the east north area for people to use and make their life more convenience. There is also another factor that may cause the distribution of the people, which is the frequently fights in the Chin dynasty. Due to the origin, geographical, ethnic identity and political reasons, those fights unite the Hakka people from different group and defend the attacks. Those two factors lead to a current distribution of the the Zhangzhou-Hakka group.
