In "Journey to the West", tang monks have gone through fourteen years, traveled 18,000 miles, and finally obtained the true scriptures after going through hardships and obstacles, and in these 14 years, Tang monks had to show "customs clearance documents" every time they walked through a city, and "customs clearance documents" were passports for going abroad during the Tang Dynasty.
Dynasties and dynasties, there are also different names for passports, symbols, transmissions, passes, public inspections, degrees, road passes, customs clearance documents, security certificates, passes, etc., during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the Seven Kingdoms competed for hegemony, in order to prevent spies, all set up checkpoints at border passes, and people traveling need to show vouchers.
The widespread use of passports was after the Middle Ages, with the 15th century when the West entered the Age of Discovery, port trade became frequent, some foreigners had to show the local officials issued a permission to trade documents, but this is just ordinary trade, the real beginning of the holder's physical features printed on the passport is in 1845, with the colonial expansion, the Qing Dynasty also got a passport under the influence of the West.
Since the end of the First Opium War in 1842, the Qing government signed the first unequal treaty with Britain, the Treaty of Nanking, and its territorial integrity was undermined, and since the first unequal treaty was signed, the Western powers have forced the Qing Dynasty to sign a series of unequal treaties.
In 1845, Britain established the first concession in Shanghai, and after the establishment of the Tianjin Concession in 1902 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a total of 27 concessions were established, and after the signing of the Treaty of Beijing in 1860, foreign countries opened trade ports, and the number of Chinese laborers who went out was increasing, and personal passports became very important.
At the request of the concessions of various countries, the Qing government began to issue individual passports, but due to limited technology, the passport was only a piece of paper stamped with an official seal, not even a photo, which was quite simple, and Qing officials could only identify the appearance characteristics of this person through the text description on the passport.
Although the Qing government issued passports, but at that time, the Status of the Qing Dynasty in the world, most countries did not recognize Chinese passports, and even refused to allow them, and some out-of-town laborers were also scornfully called "piglets", but the Qing Dynasty never lost its integrity.
The Qing government added a sentence to the end of the passport: "When holding a passport in transit, please check and release it immediately, give protection according to the agreement, and do not obstruct it." "Although the Qing government brought some painful history that is difficult to unravel, it still vigorously defended the citizens of the country, and in 1912, the Qing Dynasty collapsed.
In 1929, the government of the Republic of China promulgated the "Passport Regulations" and the registration of overseas Chinese, and the passport was unified throughout the country, on this basis, the Republic of China introduced three kinds of passports, "diplomatic passports", "official passports" and "ordinary passports", which are quite cumbersome, and now China's passports are not the same.
The 4 words of "Chinese passport" alone are enough to make people look envious, which is a manifestation of the country's strength, many people can not reflect the extent to which the country is strong, but when "Yemen evacuates overseas Chinese", China's sea ship is the first to enter the Yemeni port, and the United States was rejected.