Yantai
A cultural city with a long history
This is the earliest commercial port in northern China
Today, let us follow [Yantai City Painting]
to understand the story of Yantai's port opening~
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Fairyland Coast Delicious Yantai
858 "Tianjin Treaty" signed is a turning point in Yantai's history and destiny. Yantai was forced to open Dengzhou (now Penglai District, Yantai City) as a trading port, becoming the first city in Shandong to open a port and one of the earliest cities to open a port in the north at that time.
Yantaishan
861, a British consul named Morrison was sent to Dengzhou to prepare the consulate and port opening. This Morrison is not an ordinary person. His father, Morrison Sr., was the first missionary sent to China by the churches of Western countries, and he was born in Macau, China, and has the title of "China Hand". One day in March of this year, Morrison arrived in Dengzhou, looked at the boundless sea, and sighed. It turned out that he found that the beach of Dengzhou port was thin and shallow, and there was no shelter for ships, which was not suitable for modernization. big port. So he quickly adjusted his strategy and surveyed all the nearby tidal waters along the coastline. In the end, from the perspective of geographical location, natural conditions and trade activities, Yantai is far better than Dengzhou as a port opening. Subsequently, he submitted a solid research report, which laid the foundation for the opening of Yantai's port.Regarding this robber logic, the Qing government did not strive hard, because the Qing government was not willing to turn Dengzhou into a commercial port, so it recognized the fact that Yantai replaced Dengzhou as a trading port. After Yantai opened as a port, Morrison became the first British consul. In the old days, there was a road on Yantai Mountain named after him, namely "Marrison Road". This is also the first street in old Yantai to quote a foreigner's name.
Yantai night scene
Mr. Luo Shuwei, an expert on modern Chinese history, said when commenting on the opening of Yantai's port: "It was this little Morrison who changed Yantai's destiny." In fact, what really changed Yantai's destiny was not Someone, but the city itself.
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