20世纪30年代,“中国十大国际友人”之一的新西兰作家路易·艾黎曾说过:“中国有两个最美丽的小城,一个是湖南的凤凰,一个是福建的长汀。”如今,凤凰早已飞上枝头,成为国内著名的旅游胜地,而长汀古城则知之者甚少。长汀,也称汀州,地处福建西部,隶属于龙岩市。唐开元二十四年(公元736年),始设汀州,长汀建县,成为州治所在,之后历朝历代,长汀县均是州、路、府的治所。历史上,中原汉人几次南迁过程中,汀州一带都是中转之地。最初移民沿汀江两岸而 In the 1930s, Louis Alley, a New Zealand writer who said “China’s Top 10 International Friends,” once said: "China has two of the most beautiful towns, one is Phoenix in Hunan and the other is Changting Today, Phoenix has long been flying on the branches, becoming a famous tourist destination, while the ancient city of Changting is little known. Changting, also known as Ting Zhou, is located in western Fujian, under the Longyan City. Tang Kaiyuan twenty-four years (AD 736), set up Tingzhou, Changting County, became the state where, after the Dynasties calendar, Changting County are state, road and government. Historically, several Chinese Central Plains Han moved south during the Ting state area are transit. Initially immigrants along the banks of the Tingjiang River