Ko te Hakari Laba he hararei tuku iho Hainamana kua roa nei e whakanuia ana, he mea whatu hohonu ki roto i te ahurea tuku iho. Ka taka ia tau i te waru o ngā rā o te tekau mā rua o ngā marama, he rā e tohu ana i te tīmatanga o te tatau ki te Hakari o te Koanga – te hakari nui rawa atu i roto i te maramataka ahurea Hainamana. Mō ngā whakatipuranga, kua kiia tēnei rā he whakamaumahara ngawari ki te whakarite mō te tau hou e haere ake nei, mai i te horoi pai i ngā whare ki te kohikohi i ngā kai mō ngā kai hakari. He rerekē i ngā whakanuitanga nui me ngā haruru o ētahi atu hararei, he mahana marino te Hakari Laba, e aro ana ki te hononga whānau piripono me te tiaki tupato i ngā tikanga tawhito i tukuna iho mai i ngā tūpuna. Ko te rā tēnei e whakangāwari ai ngā whānau i ngā mahi o ia rā, e huihui tahi ai, e awhi ai i ngā tikanga e hono ana i a rātou ki ō rātou pakiaka.

Ko ngā pūtake o te Hakari Laba i ahu mai i ngā hapori ahuwhenua onamata, i whakawhirinaki nui ai te tangata ki ngā kotinga hei oranga mōna. I taua wā, he hononga tata te hakari ki te whakawhetai nui mō ngā taonga a te taiao me ngā inoi pono mō ngā hua pai o te tau e tū mai nei. Ko ngā whakanuinga o mua i arotahi ki ngā kawa tapu hei whakahonore i ngā tūpuna me ngā wairua taiao, i te mea i whakapono pūmau ngā hapori onamata ka kawea mai e ēnei mahi te rangimārie, te whai rawa me te nui ki ō rātou whānau me ō rātou kāinga. I roto i ngā rautau, ka hanumi haere ēnei kawa taketake ki ngā whakaakoranga whakapono me ngā tikanga tuku iho o te rohe, ka huri haere i roto i ngā huringa ngawari me te pupuri tonu i ngā tikanga matua. I te mutunga, ka whanake hei hakari e mau tonu ana i ēnei rā, e tohuhia ana e ngā tikanga ahurei me ngā kai tohu e mau ana i ngā tikanga ahurea whai kiko.

Nā te awe o te Buddhist i tāpiri he paparanga hou ki te tikanga o te Hakari Laba, ahakoa ko tōna whakaurunga ki te ahurea o te rohe i hanga he tikanga motuhake e rerekē ana i ngā kawa whakapono parakore. E ai ki te pūrākau i whiwhi a Buddha i te māramatanga wairua i tēnei rā tonu i muri i ngā tau maha o te whai. I mua i tērā, i kopikopiko ia i ngā whenua whānui mō ngā tau ki te rapu i te pono, me te whakamanawanui i ngā uauatanga nui, te hiakai me te matewai. I a ia e tata ana ki te hinga, ka kitea ia e tētahi tangata whenua atawhai, ā, ka tukuna atu he parāoa mahana i hangaia ki ngā witi whakaranu me ngā hua hou. Nā tēnei kai māmā i whakaora tōna kaha, i whakawātea i tōna hinengaro, ā, ka taea e ia te neke atu ki te māramatanga mutunga kore. Hei whakamaumahara i tēnei mahi aroha me te māramatanga o Buddha, i muri mai ka tangohia e ngā whare mōneka Buddhist te tikanga o te tohatoha parāoa ki te iwi noa i tēnei rā. I roto i te wā, nā tēnei mahi i huri te peihana parāoa māmā hei tohu kaha o te aroha, te whakawhetai me te āwhina tahi.

Ko te hanga pāreti te tikanga matua o te Hakari Laba, engari he rerekē ngā tohutao puta noa i ngā rohe rerekē nā te āhuarangi o te rohe, ngā hua me ngā tikanga noho. E kiia ana ko te Pāreti Taonga-E Waru, he maha ngā momo witi, pīni, nati me ngā hua maroke e whakakotahi ana, he tikanga tohu motuhake tō ia kai. Ko ngā kai noa ko te raihi piri mō te reka me te piri – he tohu mō te kotahitanga o te whānau, ngā pīni whero mō te waimarie, te rai mō te whai rawa, ngā purapura rōhi mō te parakore, ngā tāte maroke mō te harikoa, ngā nati wōnati mō te whakaaro nui, ngā pīnati mō te ora me ngā longan mō te hiahia kia whānau he tamariki rangatira. Ko ngā rohe raki he nui ake te whakamahi i ngā nati mō te kakano pakari, ko ngā rohe tonga ia he pai ake te tāpiri i ngā hua maroke reka pērā i te karepe maroke, te mango maroke me te persimmon maroke hei whakarei ake i te reka. He maha ngā wā ka whakarerekē ngā whānau i ngā kai i runga i te reka o te tangata me ngā mea e wātea ana, ka waiho ia kohua pāreti hei mea ahurei, hei mea ki tonu i te aroha. Ehara i te mea hei kai noa iho tēnei kai; he tohu hoki i te kotahitanga whānau hohonu, i te mea ka huihui ngā mema o te whānau ki te kīhini ki te whakarite tahi, ki te kōrero me te tuku i ngā tohutao ngaro me ngā kōrero whānau.

Ko te Kāriki Laba tētahi atu tikanga rongonui, he mea rongonui i ngā taha raki o te whenua, he makariri, he roa hoki ngā hotoke. I te Hakari Laba, ka āta whiriwhiria e ngā whānau ngā kāriki momona, hou, ka tihorea kia ma, ka rumakina ki te winika raihi kounga teitei. Kātahi ka hiritia te ipu ki te taupoki, ka rongoa ki te wāhi hauhautanga, maroke, kia matara atu i te rā tika. I muri i ngā wiki o te whakapūkara tūturu, ka huri ngā kāriki kāriki ki te kakariki emerara kanapa, he ngawari te kakano, he reka kawa, he whakahauora. He maha ngā wā ka tukuna hei taha kai i te wā o ngā kai o te Hakari Koanga, he pai te hono atu ki ngā tāmi, ngā parāoa koromamao me ētahi atu kai whakanui matua. He tikanga tohu hohonu anō hoki tō tēnei tikanga – ko te tae kakariki kanapa e tohu ana i te ora hou me te ora, ko te tukanga whakapūkara puhoi e tohu ana i te manawanui, te manawanui me te tumanako mō ngā rā pai ake kei mua.

Kua hangaia e ngā ahurea ā-rohe ngā tikanga Laba rerekē i tua atu i te parāoa me te kāriki, ā, kua nui ake te whai kiko o ngā tikanga o te hakari. I te Porowini o Sichuan, e mōhiotia ana mō āna kai kakara, ka hangaia e te iwi te Laba Tofu kakara mā te whakapūkara i te tofu mārō ki te paura tiri, te tote, ngā pepa Sichuan me ētahi atu mea kakara. Ka rongoatia tēnei mea kakara reka ki roto i ngā ipu, ā, ka whakamahia i roto i ngā kai o ia rā, ka tāpiri i te reka kaha ki ngā rihi, ā, ka tohaina ki waenga i ngā hoa noho hei tohu whakahoahoa. I ngā rohe takutai moana pērā i a Guangdong me Fujian, ka tāpirihia e ētahi whānau ngā kaimoana hou pērā i te kōura, te tio me te tio maroke ki te parāoa, ka whakaranua ngā kai moana ā-rohe me ngā tikanga hanga parāoa tuku iho hei hanga i te reka ahurei. I ngā hapori tuawhenua tawhiti, ka huihui ngā kaumātua ki te taha o te ahi i te ahiahi, ka kōrero i ngā kōrero ora mō te takenga mai me ngā pūrākau o te hakari, kia ora tonu ai ngā tikanga tuku iho i roto i te hītori ā-waha. Ka whakaatuhia katoatia e ēnei momo ā-rohe te whai kiko me te kanorau o te ahurea Haina, me te āhua o te urutau o ngā tikanga tuku iho ki ngā momo noho me ngā taiao o te rohe.

Ko ngā kōrero tuku iho mō te Hakari Laba ka tāpiri i te ataahua ahurei ki tōna hiranga ahurea, ka tukuna iho ngā uara matatika mai i tētahi whakatipuranga ki tētahi whakatipuranga. E kōrero ana tētahi kōrero pārekareka mō tētahi whānau rawakore kāore i taea te utu i ngā kai momona mō te parāoa Laba. I te rongonga o te hunga kāinga mō tō rātou āhuatanga, ka kohia e rātou he iti noa ngā witi, ngā pīni me ngā hua mai i ā rātou ake rahui hei āwhina i a rātou. I tunu tahi rātou i tētahi kohua parāoa ki tonu i te aroha, te atawhai me te manaaki hapori. E whakaako ana tēnei kōrero i ngā uara nui o te atawhai, te āwhina tahi me te tautoko hapori, e whakamahara ana i te iwi kia manaaki i te hunga e matea ana. E hono ana tētahi atu kōrero i te hakari ki ngā tohunga o mua, i whakamahi i te rā Laba ki te arotake i ā rātou akoranga me te inoi mō te angitu i roto i ngā whakamātautau emepaea - te huarahi nui ki te mahi mana i Haina o mua. Ehara i te mea ka nui ake te whakamere o te hakari i ēnei kōrero engari ka tukuna iho hoki ngā akoranga matatika utu nui, e hono ana i ngā whakatipuranga o nāianei ki ngā hītori o mua.

I ēnei rā hou, kei te whanake tonu te Hakari Laba me te hapori e huri haere ana, me te pupuri tonu i ōna tikanga matua. Ahakoa te noho pukumahi o te tāone nui me te taumaha o te mahi me te pēhanga ako, he maha ngā taiohi e whai wā ana ki te ako ki te hanga pāreti Laba me te kāriki mai i ō rātou mātua me ō rātou koroua. E kite ana rātou i tēnei hei huarahi ki te whakaatu i te aroha ki ngā kaumātua me te tuku iho i ngā tikanga whānau. Ka whakahaerehia e ētahi hapori me ngā takiwa ngā huihuinga tūmatanui e tunu ai ngā tūao i ngā kohua nui o te pāreti Laba ka tohaina ki ngā manene, ki ngā tāngata e haereere ana me te hunga kāinga kore, hei whakatairanga i te wairua atawhai me te kotahitanga pāpori. Kei te piri tonu ngā whare mōneka Buddhist puta noa i te whenua ki te tikanga o te tohatoha pāreti kore utu ki te marea, e kukume ana i te iwi mai i ngā momo āhua katoa o te ao - tae atu ki ngā whakapono, ngā tūruhi me ngā kainoho o te rohe - e rapu ana i ngā manaakitanga me te noho tahi ki te hapori. He mea nui anō hoki te mahi a ngā papaaho pāpāho pāpori ki te hora i te ahurea hakari, me te tohatoha a te iwi i ngā whakaahua o te pāreti i hangaia ki te kāinga, te kāriki me ngā wā whakanui i runga ipurangi, e taea ai te tuku i te tikanga kia tae atu ki te hunga whakarongo whānui.

Ehara i te mea he whakanui kai noa iho tēnei hakari; he whakaata hohonu hoki i ngā uara me ngā rapunga whakaaro o te ao Hainamana. E whakanui ana i te hiranga o te huihuinga whānau, te whakawhetai pono ki te taiao me ngā tūpuna, me te whakaute nui ki ngā tikanga tuku iho. I tēnei ao hou e tere haere ana te mahi me ngā taputapu matihiko, ka whakamahara te Hakari Laba i te tangata kia āta haere, kia aroha ki te wā utu nui me te hunga e arohaina ana, kia whakahonoretia hoki ō rātou pūtake ahurea. He piriti tēnei i waenganui i ngā wā o mua me ngā wā o nāianei, e hono ana i ngā whakatupuranga taitamariki ki ngā mātauranga me ngā tikanga tawhito kua hanga i te tuakiri Hainamana mō ngā mano tau. E ako ana hoki i te tangata kia makona, kia whakawhetai, kia whakanuia hoki te harikoa ngāwari o te ao.

I te mea e piki haere ana te whakawhitiwhiti ahurea o te ao, kua nui ake te aro me te mōhio o te ao ki te Hakari Laba. He matapihi utu nui tēnei ki te ahurea tuku iho o Haina, e whakaatu ana i te kaha o ngā tikanga o ia rā ki te kawe i ngā tikanga ahurea hohonu me ngā uara tangata. He maha ngā wā ka uru atu ngā tūruhi me ngā tāngata whenua kē e noho ana i Haina ki ngā whakanuinga Laba, ka whakamātau i te pāreti Laba me te kāriki, ka ako mō te hītori me ngā tikanga o te hakari mai i ngā tāngata whenua. Ko tēnei whakawhitiwhiti ahurea ehara i te mea ka āwhina noa ki te tiaki me te whakatairanga i te ahurea tuku iho o Haina engari ka nui ake te urunga atu ki te iwi o te ao. Ka akiaki i te māramatanga me te whakaute i waenga i ngā ahurea rerekē, ka whai wāhi ki te kanorau ahurea o te ao.

Ko te rongonui me te ora tonu o te Hakari Laba kei roto i tōna kaha ki te urutau ki ngā huringa o te wā, me te pupuri tonu i ngā uara matua. He mea nui tonu ki te iwi Hainamana nā te mea e aro ana ki ngā hononga tangata pono - i waenga i ngā mema o te whānau, i waenga i ngā hoa noho, i waenga i ngā hapori me waenga i ngā wā o mua me ngā wā o nāianei. Kei roto i ia peihana o te parāoa Laba mahana me ia ipu o te Karika Laba kakara ngā kōrero aroha, ngā tikanga me te tumanako. He wāhanga nui o te taonga tuku iho a Haina, he mea ka tukuna tonutia mai i tētahi whakatipuranga ki tētahi whakatipuranga, ka tiaho mārama i te heke mai me tōna ataahua ahurei me ōna tikanga hohonu.

Ko ngā pūtake o te Hakari Laba i ahu mai i ngā hapori ahuwhenua onamata, i whakawhirinaki nui ai te tangata ki ngā kotinga hei oranga mōna. I taua wā, he hononga tata te hakari ki te whakawhetai mō ngā taonga a te taiao me ngā inoi mō ngā hua o te tau e whai ake nei. Ko ngā whakanuinga o mua i arotahi ki ngā kawa hei whakahonore i ngā tūpuna me ngā wairua taiao, i te mea i whakapono ngā hapori onamata ka kawea mai e ēnei mahi te rangimārie me te hua. I roto i ngā rautau, i hanumi ēnei kawa ki ngā tikanga whakapono me ngā tikanga tuku iho, ā, ka whanake hei hakari e mau tonu ana i ēnei rā me ngā tikanga ahurei me ngā kai tohu.

Nā te awe o te Buddhist i tāpiri he paparanga hou ki te tikanga o te Hakari Laba, ahakoa ko tōna whakaurunga ki te ahurea tuku iho i hanga he tikanga motuhake. E ai ki te pūrākau i tutuki i a Buddha te māramatanga wairua i tēnei rā tonu. I mua i tērā, i haereere ia mō ngā tau ki te rapu i te pono, me te whakamanawanui i ngā uauatanga nui me te hiakai. I tukuna e te tangata whenua atawhai ki a ia he parāoa mahana i hangaia ki ngā witi me ngā hua, i āwhina i a ia ki te whakahoki mai i te kaha me te neke atu ki te māramatanga. I muri mai ka tangohia e ngā whare mōneka te tikanga o te tohatoha parāoa ki te tangata, ka hurihia te kai māmā hei tohu aroha me te whakawhetai.

Ko te hanga pāreti te tikanga matua o te Hakari Laba, engari he rerekē ngā tohutao puta noa i ngā rohe. E kiia ana ko te Pāreti Taonga-E Waru, he ranunga o ngā witi, pīni, nati me ngā hua maroke. Ko ngā kai noa ko te raihi piripono, ngā pīni whero, te rai, ngā purapura rōhi, ngā tāte maroke, ngā nati wōnati, ngā pīnati me ngā longan. Ko ngā rohe raki he nui ake te whakamahi i ngā nati kia pakari ai te kakano, ko ngā rohe tonga ia he hua maroke reka pērā i te karepe maroke me te māngo maroke. He maha ngā whānau e whakarerekē ana i ngā kai i runga i te reka o ia tangata, kia motuhake ai ia ipu pāreti. Ehara tēnei kai i te mea hei kai noa iho; he tohu kotahitanga, i te mea ka huihui ngā mema o te whānau ki te whakarite tahi, me te tuku iho i ngā tohutao me ngā kōrero.

Ko te Kāriki Laba tētahi atu tikanga rongonui, e rongonui ana i ngā rohe raki o te whenua. Ka tihorea e ngā whānau ngā koroka kāriki ka rumakina ki te winika raihi, kātahi ka hiritia te ipu ka rongoa ki te wāhi matao. I muri i ngā wiki o te whakapūkara, ka huri te kāriki hei kakariki kanapa, ka puta he reka kawa. He maha ngā wā ka tukuna hei taha kai i ngā kai o te Hakari o te Koanga, he pai te hono atu ki ngā tāmi me ētahi atu kai whakanui. He tikanga tohu anō hoki tō tēnei tikanga – ko te tae kakariki e tohu ana i te oranga hou, ko te tukanga whakapūkara e tohu ana i te manawanui me te tumanako mō ngā rā pai ake kei mua.

Nā ngā ahurea ā-rohe i hanga ngā tikanga Laba rerekē i tua atu i te parāoa me te kāriki. I te Porowini o Sichuan, ka hangaia e te iwi te Laba Tofu werawera mā te whakapūkara i te tofu ki te tiri me te tote. Ka whakamahia tēnei mea kakara reka i roto i ngā kai o ia rā, ā, ka tohaina ki waenga i ngā hoa noho. I ngā rohe takutai moana, ka tāpirihia e ētahi whānau ngā kai moana ki te parāoa, ka whakaranua ngā kai o te rohe me ngā tikanga tuku iho. I ngā hapori taiwhenua, ka kōrero ngā kaumātua i ngā kōrero mō te takenga mai o te hakari ki ngā tamariki, kia ora tonu ai ngā tikanga tuku iho mā roto i te hītori ā-waha. E whakaatu ana ēnei momo ā-rohe i te taonga o te ahurea Hainamana me te āhua o te urutau o ngā tikanga tuku iho ki ngā momo noho o te rohe.

Ko ngā kōrero tuku iho mō te Hakari Laba ka tāpiri i te ataahua ki tōna hiranga ahurea. E kōrero ana tētahi kōrero mō tētahi whānau rawakore kāore i taea te utu i ngā kai momona mō te parāoa. I kohia e ngā tāngata o te kāinga he iti noa ngā witi me ngā hua hei āwhina i a rātou, ā, ka hangaia he kohua parāoa kī tonu i te aroha me te atawhai. E whakaako ana tēnei kōrero i ngā uara o te atawhai me te tautoko a te hapori. E hono ana tētahi atu kōrero i te hakari ki ngā tohunga o mua, i whakamahi i te rā Laba hei arotake i ngā akoranga me te inoi mō te angitu i roto i ngā whakamātautau. Ka tukuna iho e ēnei kōrero ngā akoranga matatika, ā, ka hono i ngā reanga o nāianei ki ngā reanga o mua.

I ēnei rā, kei te whanake tonu te Hakari Laba, me te pupuri tonu i ngā tikanga matua. He maha ngā taiohi e ako ana ki te hanga pāreti me te kāriki mai i ngā mātua me ngā koroua, ahakoa i roto i ngā oranga pukumahi o te tāone nui. Ka tū ētahi hapori i ngā huihuinga tūmatanui e tohaina ai e te tangata te pāreti Laba ki ngā tāngata tauhou, hei whakatairanga i te atawhai me te kotahitanga. Kei te tohatoha tonu ngā whare mōneka Buddhist i te pāreti kore utu, e kukume ana i te iwi mai i ngā momo āhua katoa e rapu ana i ngā manaakitanga me te wairua hapori. Ka āwhina hoki ngā pāpāho pāpori ki te hora i te ahurea o te hakari, me te tohatoha a te tangata i ngā whakaahua o te pāreti me ngā tikanga i mahia i te kāinga ki runga ipurangi.

Ehara i te mea ko te whakanui kai anake tēnei hakari; he whakaata hoki i ngā uara Hainamana. E whakanui ana i te huihuinga whānau, te whakawhetai, me te whakaute i ngā tūpuna me ngā tikanga tuku iho. I roto i te ao tere, ka whakamahara te Hakari Laba i te tangata kia ata noho, kia aroha ki te wā me te hunga e arohaina ana, kia whakahonoretia hoki ngā pūtake ahurea. Ka hono i ngā mea o mua me ngā mea o nāianei, ka hono i ngā whakatupuranga taitamariki ki ngā mātauranga me ngā tikanga tawhito kua hanga i te tuakiri Hainamana.

I te tipu haere o te whakawhitiwhiti ahurea o te ao, kua nui ake te aro o te ao ki te Hakari Laba. He matapihi tēnei ki te ahurea tuku iho o Haina, e whakaatu ana i te hohonu o ngā tikanga māmā. He maha ngā wā ka uru atu ngā tūruhi me ngā tāngata whenua ki ngā whakanuinga, ka whakamātau i te parāoa Laba me te ako mō te hītori o te hakari. Mā tēnei whakawhitiwhiti ahurea ka tiaki i te tikanga tuku iho, ka whānui ake hoki.

Ko te rongonui o te Hakari Laba kei roto i tōna kaha ki te urutau ki ngā huringa o te wā, me te pupuri tonu i ngā uara matua. He mea nui tonu nā te mea e aro ana ki ngā hononga tangata - i waenga i ngā mema o te whānau, i ngā hapori, i ngā wā o mua me ngā wā o nāianei. Kei roto i ia peihana parāoa me ia ipu kāriki ngā kōrero mō te aroha, te tikanga tuku iho, me te tumanako, ā, he wāhanga nui tēnei o te taonga tuku iho a Haina ka tukuna tonutia mō ngā whakatipuranga.