[blam]

Okay. I just figured a serious drought.

I know at this time, the people in the Tarim Basin were crowded around the glacier fed streams and when the glaciers completely melted away, the rivers dried up and they moved too.

The Hakka made five migrations across China, north to south. Many had Caucasian features when they left and were slaughtered during these migrations across China. To this day, they are known as 'the guests.'

My local Chinese restaurant owner was shocked when I said, "you're Hakka, aren't you?" He was.

[muawiyah]

The traditional story is that the Hakka started out with big noses. However, after a particular nasty series of wars that resulted in the forced settlement of some of them in areas that could be controlled by the Chinese, one of the emperors went around chopping off any nose above a certain size, and, if not satisfied with that, simply killing the possessors of such noses.

Modern Japanese (with a heavy Hakka component) do have noses with high bridges. This occurs in families with individuals with smaller noses.

I have not yet figured out the name "Hakka" so I can't tell if it's their own name for themselves, or the Chinese name for them.