Shibi, Ninghua County, Fujian Province is called "Hakka ancestral land". Why?

Ninghua, the western border of Fujian Province, is a magical, mysterious and sacred place. In the 13th year of Tang Kaiyuan (725), Jianxian County was called Huanglian, and in the first year of Tianbao (742), it was renamed Huanglian. The whole territory is 2368 square kilometers and there are 350,000 Hakkas.

Ninghua is the source of the three rivers (Minjiang, Ganjiang and Tingjiang). This is the center of Hakkas' reproduction, the cradle of Hakkas and the ancestral home of Hakkas in the world. There is a sacred Hakka temple in the world, and Tang Yuping, with the largest number of memorial tablets dedicated to Hakka ancestors, is the spiritual source of Hakka holy land.

A magnificent antique building stands in the center of the Shibi Basin in Ninghua. It is the spiritual source of the world's Hakka holy land-Hakka ancestral temple-Shibi Hakka public temple.

There are rich Hakka historical and cultural exhibition halls, pedigree collection room, forest of steles and surname steles in the ancestral hall, which enshrines the ancestral tablets of "Hakka ancestor" and Hakka surname 160. It tells you that this is the birthplace of many Hakka cultures, which contains and releases the "soul of Hakka". It is the cradle and ancestral home of Hakkas. Today's Shek Pik is the terminal of seeking the reunification of the motherland, the source of exploring Hakka culture and spirit, the ancestral hall of showing filial piety, and the classroom of appreciating Hakka history, educating the younger generation and carrying forward Hakka spirit.

Many Hakka genealogies and surnames are displayed in the genealogy hall of Shibi Hakka Ancestral Hall and Wenbo Hall. There are hundreds of ancestral halls with surnames in Shibi and Ninghua. All surnames have preserved the genealogy and genealogy from the Song Dynasty to the present, as well as the Kaiji ancestral graves since the Tang and Song Dynasties. The origin of clan surnames is recorded in detail.

There are more than 200 surnames with a large Hakka population, which are related to Ninghua and Shibi, and these surnames account for more than 80% of the Hakka population. Their ancestors came from Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Gansu, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangsu and other places. It was the "Yongjia Rebellion", "Huang Chao War" and "Jingkang Disaster" that left their hometown and moved to the south one after another, and they were the first to settle in Ninghua since the Eastern Han Dynasty. But mostly from the middle Tang Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the Hakka ancestors gave birth to the Hakka clan in this "Xanadu" centered on the stone wall in Ninghua, due to the changes in social environment, the "newborn" Hakkas who have settled in Ninghua for hundreds of years or generations have packed up their bags and moved to western Fujian and eastern Guangdong in large numbers. After the formation of Hakka clans, Hakka began to emigrate from Ninghua in the Southern Song Dynasty, accounting for 80% of Ninghua's surname, reaching more than 150. They have spread all over the ten urban areas of Yusheng, China, and the Hakka children of Ninghua are all over the world.

Ninghua and its Shek Pik are regarded as milestones between Hakka and non-Hakka, so most ancestors who started in Ninghua or moved out from Ninghua are regarded as their first sisters or ancestors by their descendants, so Ninghua and Shek Pik are regarded as Hakka ancestral lands by scholars.