Shibi contact information: Tel: 0598-823130382307198250128 Fax: 0598-8230719 Address: Within the Swan Cave Group Scenic Area, Ninghua, Fujian Province
Introduction to Shibi Attractions:
23 kilometers west of Ninghua County, it is an administrative village in Hekou Township. It was an important transportation artery from Jiangxi to Fujian and Guangdong in ancient times. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was called Yuping. In the middle of Tang Dynasty, it was changed to Shibi. In the Five Dynasties, "bi" was changed to "bi", and later it was pronounced as "shibi". The terrain here is flat and open, with fertile soil and dense forests. During the great migration of Hakkas in history, most of the Hakkas who migrated south once settled here, and then migrated out one after another. At most, more than 100 Hakka people with surnames lived here, so it was called the "cradle of Hakkas", "Hakka transit station" and "Hakka ancestral land". Hakka means "home away from home". The Hakka people were originally Han people from the Central Plains. In order to avoid war, they began to move southward for the first time since the "Five Husties" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After the Huangchao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, they moved from Anhui, Henan, Hubei and Jiangxi to the south to the borders of southeastern Jiangxi, western Fujian and northeastern Guangdong. Most of them passed through the Ningdu and Yudu areas at the junction of Jiangxi and Fujian, first arrived in Ninghua, and then moved to the Tingjiang River Basin and Meixian County in Guangdong. During several great migrations in later years, the most concentrated settlement was also in Ningfobi.
Among the 50 million genealogies of Hakka descendants at home and abroad, seventy-eight out of ten have records that their ancestors lived in "Shibi" in Ninghua. According to statistics, among the main Hakka surnames, more than 109 surnames spread from Ninghua (mainly Shibi) to home and abroad. The "Origins of Hakka Surnames" (Volume 1) compiled by the Guangdong Meizhou Hakka Association and the Meizhou Municipal Chronicle Office includes 34 surnames, of which 29 have ancestors who migrated from Ninghua. "Huasheng Daily" reported that there are at least 60 common surnames in Taiwan, with more than 6 million people related to Shibi, of which more than 3 million are Hakka, more than 2 million are descended from Shibi, and from Nanjing in southern Fujian. , Pinghe, Zhao'an, Zhangzhou and other places moved to Taiwan.
Many Hakka relics are preserved here, as well as the Hakka language and traditional customs. In recent years, it has received more than 1,300 groups of Hakka relatives and scholars from home and abroad, and more than 100,000 people. There is a road directly to the village entrance.