Inland Fujian, Mountain province in southeastern China

Inland Fujian (Minxi) is the western part of Fujian province, administratively covering Sanming and Longyan cities. Culturally and historically it refers to the eight counties of the former Tingzhou prefecture: Changting, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang, Yongding, Ninghua, Qingliu and Mingxi. The Tingzhou Hakka dialect is spoken across this inland area.

Inland Fujian corresponds to the western part of Fujian, historically centred on Tingzhou prefecture and its eight counties: Changting, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang and Yongding, now in Longyan, plus Ninghua, Qingliu and Mingxi in Sanming. It was the ancestral homeland where Hakka migrants from the Hunan and Hubei area settled, forming the Hakka subgroup of northeastern Guangdong-Fujian-Jiangxi.

Multiple ethnic communities call this region home, each maintaining distinct traditions and dialects passed through generations. People of Fujianese origin around the world trace their family roots back to this ancestral land.

Inland Fujian covers the west of Fujian, administratively Sanming and Longming cities, with the historic Tingzhou core in Changting, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang, Yongding, Ninghua, Qingliu and Mingxi. Mountain roads link these county towns, so allow travel time between stops. The Hakka heartland around Ninghua's Shibi village is rural; carry cash and drinking water for outlying villages.

Ninghua county's Shibi village is called the ancestral home of the Hakka. The region's best-known local deity is the Song dynasty monk Dingguang, honoured as Dingguang Gufo, still worshipped by Hakka descendants in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.