Hakka ancestral land in Shibi Village

In the history of China, due to war, famine, military disaster, government incentives, arrangements, the temptation of foreign economy and other factors, a large number of Han people in the Central Plains moved south. These Han people who moved south were called Hakkas in history. Hakka immigrants began in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the clan system was formed after the Five Dynasties. Those who migrated after the Five Dynasties were called authentic Hakkas. Most of these authentic Hakkas crossed the stone wall of Ninghua (now called "Shi Bi") during their migration. After living in Shibi for generations or even hundreds of years, they migrated to western Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Hongkong, Taiwan Province and Southeast Asia. So they often say that the first ancestor came from Shibi, and Shibi naturally became the second ancestral home of these Hakkas.

"There are big locust trees in the north and Shibi Village in the south", and the stone wall of Ninghua is the cradle and ancestral land of Hakka people. Shibi is an administrative village in Shibi Town, Ninghua County. It is located in the west corner of Ninghua, adjacent to Shicheng County, Jiangxi Province, 22 kilometers away from the county seat, and beside the highway of Wumi Line (Wu Liting at the junction of Fuzhou and Fujian and Jiangxi). The terms "Shibi Cave", "Shibi Village", "Shibi Liao" and "Shibi City" mentioned in historical materials are only local concepts, which generally refer to a region, namely Shibi Basin, with a total area of nearly 200 square kilometers, including all the existing Shibi Town and Huaitu Township, as well as a part of Tianfang and Jicun Township. Shibi Village is located in the center of this region, and it is also the political, economic and cultural center of this region in history.

Shek Pik is known as "the transfer station of Hakka's southward migration", "the center of Hakka clan formation", "the cradle of Hakka", "the ancestral home of Hakka" and "the pilgrimage center of Hakka in the world", which is the result of textual research by scholars at home and abroad from a large number of historical materials and has sufficient basis.