What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Everyone on the earth knows that the Qing court is closed to the country, especially Qianlong, who is blind to the point of unimaginable lack, almost isolating China to outer space. From 1746, the kangxi decade, to 1842, when the First Opium War ended, foreign women were not allowed to stay or live in China. The initiator of this ban was Qianlong.
Because of the port trade, merchants from Western countries gradually came to China, naturally bringing female dependents. But Qianlong did not like these foreign women to stay in China, why?
First, Qianlong believed that these foreigners had come to China to do business, had earned a lot of China's silver, and were completely of no benefit to China, and forbade their female dependents to be around, and these foreign businessmen would leave China; second, the women of the Qing Dynasty were still wrapping their feet, paying attention to the fact that men and women were not intimate, while foreign women were revealing their clothes and frivolous behavior, holding hands, laughing, and even kissing men on the street, which was simply a mudslide; third, the status of foreign women was no different from that of men, and they were also treated preferentially everywhere, which made the feudal etiquette of male superiority and female inferiority intolerable.
At that time, there was a big Dutch businessman named Loren, who had been doing business in China for many years, and finally could not tolerate the pain of separating the family, and took his wife and daughter to sit on his "Seahorse" and drifted across the sea to China. When he arrived in Guangzhou, he was banned from entering the country by local officials. Eventually, they were resettled in Macau, and since then all foreign women have been resettled to Macau.
In 1759, Li Shiyao, the governor of Liangguang, formulated the "Regulations on the Prevention of Foreign Affairs" according to Qianlong's will; in 1776, Li Qianying, the governor of Guangdong and the inspector of customs, formulated the "Four Inspections of Prevention and Yi"; in 1809, bailing, the governor of Liangguang, introduced the "Regulations on the Trade of Minyi"; in 1814, Jiang Youzuan, the governor of Liangguang, formulated the "Nine Matters concerning the Consolidation of Yi Merchants and Trades", which had different contents, but one of them was absolutely the same: it was forbidden for "Fan women" to reside in the Qing Dynasty.
Foreign investors have always hoped to break this ban, and there have been conflicts with the Qing government. It was not until 1842, when the Opium War ended, that China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanking, which formally abolished the prohibition of entry for British merchants and officials. As soon as the mouth opened, women from all over the world poured in. The century-old ban opened by Qianlong was thus ancient.