In Shicheng, human activities have a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were human activities. The pre-Qin period was the place where the ancient Yue people lived and multiplied. The Han Dynasty was subordinate to Dudu, Jieyang, Beiyang, Hua Qian and other counties. In the fifth year of Wu Jiahe in the Three Kingdoms (AD 236), Jieyang County was taken as the capital, which successively belonged to Luling County and Nankang County. In the fifth year of Jin Taikang (AD 284), it was renamed Beiyang County and was subordinate to Nankang County. In the 13th year of Emperor Yangdi's reign in Huang Kai (AD 593), Shichengchang was named because it was surrounded by mountains and towering like a city. In the 11th year of Baoda in Southern Tang Dynasty (AD 953), Shicheng was promoted to Shicheng County. In the first year of Xingguo in Song Taiping (AD 976), it was a dry state. In the 23rd year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 153), it belonged to Ganzhou. Yuanyuan Zhenyuan (1295) belongs to Ganzhou Road. In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1369), it belonged to Ganzhou Prefecture. In the 19th year of Qing Qianlong (AD 1754), Shicheng County was designated as the jurisdiction of Zhili Prefecture, the capital of Ningdu. 19 14 belongs to Gannan Road. 1926 The waste road belongs to Jiangxi Province. 1932 belongs to the eleventh administrative region of Jiangxi province. During the Second Revolutionary Civil War, Shicheng was the land of the Central Soviet Area. 1932 Shicheng county was placed under the jurisdiction of the Soviet government of Fujian province in February, and was placed under the jurisdiction of the Jiangxi provincial government in March. On July 22nd 1933, Luoxi of Mulan, Gaotian and Komatsu belonged to Chishui County, and Yanling belonged to Peng Pai County, Fujian Province. 1August 6, 933, the Soviet central government designated Hengjiang, Longgang, Judas, Zhukeng, Yang Di, Luojia, Ridong, Hubei and Huaiyang (Huaitu) in Ninghua as counties directly under the central government, and the county party committee was located in Hengjiang market. 1liberation on September 30, 949. It belongs to Ruijin District, and the county government is located in Qinjiang Town. 1950 belongs to Ningdu area. 1952 after September, it was successively subordinate to Ganzhou Special Zone, Gannan Administrative Region and Ganzhou District. 1999 was changed from district to city, and it is still subordinate to Ganzhou City.
[Edit this paragraph] Geographical location
Shicheng County is located in the southeast of Jiangxi Province and the northeast of Ganzhou, bordering Ninghua County of Fujian Province in the east, Changting County and Ruijin City of Fujian Province in the south, Ningdu in the west and Guangchang in the north. It is located between east longitude 1 16 05' 46 "and north latitude 16 38' 03" and north latitude 25 57' 47 "and north latitude 26 36' 13" ... Shicheng has been the only place for Jiangxi to enter western Fujian and eastern Guangdong since ancient times. The north-south longitude is 7 1.8km, and the east-west latitude is 53.7km The total area of the county is1581.53km2. Among them, the mountainous area is 211347mu, accounting for 89% of the total area. People in roads, townships, villages, factories and mines all say that "eight mountains and half water fields, roads and manors" are typical hilly and low mountain areas in southeast China.
The county has 225,000 mu of cultivated land, 6.5438+0.76 million mu of mountainous area and 72,000 mu of water surface. The unique natural conditions make Shicheng's agricultural products more distinctive. White lotus and tobacco are famous all over the country. It is a famous concentric white lotus and high-quality flue-cured tobacco base county. 1996 was named "the hometown of white lotus in China" and "the hometown of tobacco in China" by the State Council. The fruit industry, mainly navel orange and Niuxin persimmon, has begun to take shape. There are many kinds of animals and plants, including wild animals 1 18 and Chinese herbal medicines 138. The forest coverage rate of the county is 66.8%, and the standing stock is 2.62 million cubic meters, especially the high-yield Phyllostachys pubescens forest, camellia oleifera forest and rosin forest.
[Edit this paragraph] Hakka customs
During the late Jin, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were five major wars in the area centered on the Central Plains. In order to escape the war, a large number of Han people in the Central Plains moved to Shicheng and its surrounding areas to settle and multiply. These Central Plains Han people merged, merged, assimilated, reformed and innovated with local aborigines. After a long historical process, they finally formed a unique Hakka style among the Han people.
Hakka dialect: Shicheng is a pure Hakka county, all of which use Hakka dialect, and the Hakka dialect in eastern Guangdong is closer to Shicheng dialect. For example, people in Shicheng call the sun "the sun or the hot head", the moon "moonlight", sleep "rest" and so on.
Hakka Customs: Festivals: The Hakkas in Shicheng attach great importance to the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, July 30th, Mid-Autumn Festival, especially the Spring Festival. For example, on the first day of New Year's Day, you can only be vegetarian, but you can't eat meat. You must make "stone vegetables", that is, fully cooked mustard, commonly known as "abundant vegetables", which symbolizes the bumper harvest of all grains. The local old man also said that it was this "rich dish" that saved many people's lives during the period of extreme food shortage in ancient times. Therefore, people eat this dish every year to commemorate this special life-saving dish and offer it as a sacrifice with other chickens, ducks and fish.
Marriage: The wedding etiquette of Shicheng Hakka is complicated, and its procedures are divided into betrothal, drawing lots, hanging shoes, pledging, reporting the day, getting married, cooking, sending oil, full moon and returning to Ning.
Funeral: Its procedures are mainly mourning, mourning, condolence, burial, mourning and spirit removal. Bodies are buried in coffins, and cremation has been used since the 1980s.
Congratulations: There are many kinds of wines celebrated by the Hakkas in Shicheng, mainly including: Birthday: brewing birthday wine on the tenth birthday of the imaginary year; Birth: on the third day of the child's birth, make soup and cake wine, full-term full-moon wine, and weekly wine all year round; When building a house, wine should be made, the hall should be beamed, and the new house should be moved after completion; In addition, students, students and peach delivery people should hold banquets and invite relatives and friends.
Hakka diet: The staple food of Shicheng Hakka is rice, supplemented by sweet potato, soybean and wheat.