Shibi Town
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Shibi literally Stone Wall, is one of four towns in Ninghua County
Ninghua County
Ninghua is a county in Sanming municipality in Fujian province, China.Ninghua is located at the west of Sanming, next to Jiangxi Province. Shibi of Ninghua is well known as the Cradle of the Hakka...

, Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 province, China.

History

Shibi bills itself as the Cradle of the Hakkas (客家人的摇篮) for its place in Hakka
Hakka people
The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

 history.

Republic of China

Year 2 : Tingzhou fu
Tingzhou fu
Tingzhou fu was a prefecture in Fujian province from the Tang Dynasty down to the early 20th century.-History:As early as 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, there were ancient Minyue people thrived along the Tingjiang river, which originates in the north and runs through the county toward the south and...

, the prefecture which oversees Ninghua, is renamed Changting (长汀)
Changting Prefecture
Changting was a prefecture in western Fujian during the Chinese Republic . Its centre was the city on the upper Tingjiang River now called Tingzhou....

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Liberation

Tingzhou-fu/Changting is broken up; Ninghua and its towns now come under the new municipal region of Sanming
Sanming
Sanming ) is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to the south, and the province of Jiangxi to the west...

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