Shàngháng

Shàngháng lies in the hills of western Fújiàn on the Tīng River, which runs south to join the Hán River in Guǎngdōng. It began in 769 as a station cut from Lóngyán, became a county in 994, and under the Yuán, Míng and Qīng belonged to Tīngzhōu, in the Míng and Qīng one of its eight Hakka counties, whose prefecture seat lay upriver at Chángtīng. Through these centuries it remained a county of the Tīng River valley, part of the Hakka-speaking country of the Fújiàn-Guǎngdōng border.