From the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the apocalypse, the maritime merchants on China's southeast coast were "full of bandits", but most of them were vassals of some Western colonists, and it was difficult to become a climate alone. Until the emergence of a person, Yan Siqi, in the late stage of the magnificent era of great navigation, finally ushered in a Chinese hero.
Portrait of Yan Siqi
Yan Siqi was born in 1589 in Haicheng County, Fujian Province (present-day Qingjiao Village, Haicang, Xiamen). According to Lian Heng's "General History of Taiwan", Yan Siqi in his youth was strong and strong, proficient in martial arts, and had a "big brother style" from an early age.
Yan Siqi, who was beheaded according to the Ming Law, fled all the way to Hirado, Japan, when he was only fourteen years old. Japan was in the early days of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule, Hirado was a treaty port, local business travel was prosperous, and Fujian compatriots could be seen everywhere. Yan Siqi returned to his old business and opened a tailor shop.
Qingjiao Village, Haicang District, Xiamen City, commemorates Yan Siqi's Kaitai Cultural Park
Yan Siqi, who was born with a bold nature, soon gained a foothold in a foreign country, worked hard all the way, and became a big businessman across the sea.
Dissatisfied with the oppression of Chinese businessmen by some Japanese forces, they planned to capture the port of Hirado. Unexpectedly, before the incident, everyone drank for the birthday celebration of one of the brothers, and one of them was drunk and inadvertently leaked the plan, which attracted the officers and soldiers of the shogunate to surround and suppress. Fortunately, Yan Siqi was informed and fled to the sea with his brothers in a hurry. After escaping death, Yan Siqi had no other way but to go to Taiwan.
In 1624, Yan Siqi led his fleet to dock at Bengang (present-day Beigang, Taiwan). The island of Taiwan is fertile and watery, and a large wilderness is waiting to be reclaimed. Determined to do something here, Yan Siqi first led everyone to cut down wood and build a squatter village, while at the same time appeasing the ethnic minorities on the island, agreeing on boundaries, and not invading each other.
After the overall situation was initially decided, Yan Siqi sent his subordinates to lead a fleet of ships to recruit immigrants in their hometowns of Zhangzhou and Quan, and more than 3,000 people went to Taiwan before and after. Yan Siqi divided the reclamation into ten villages, distributed them with silver and cattle, agricultural tools, etc., and began the earliest large-scale reclamation activities in Taiwan.
Yan Siqi selected a group of Zhangquan and Quan people with navigation experience to use the original thirteen large ships to take advantage of the convenience of maritime transportation to carry out maritime trade with the mainland; at the same time, they organized sea fishing and hunting on the island, and developed the mountain and sea economy to solve the material needs of migrant production and life.
Yan Siqi Monument, Beigang, Yunlin, Taiwan
In 1625, when there was a bumper grain harvest in Taiwan, the excited Yan Siqi dragged his brothers into the Zhuluo Mountains to hunt, and sang all the way through drunkenness, and after returning, Yan Siqi was ill and died a few days later, at the age of 37.
This June
The first one on the mainland to commemorate Yan Siqi
Kaitai Cultural Park
In Yan Siqi's hometown- Haicang Qingjiao Village was officially opened
Tourist friends
If you have time, you may wish to visit this park
Leisure and entertainment at the same time
Together, we admire and remember Yan Siqi
Statue of Yan Siqi in Kaitai Park
Kaitai Cultural Park is located in Xiamen Haicang Qingjiao Village
The total area is 33,400 square meters
He is a relative of the Yan clan on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and people at home and abroad
It was donated and built jointly to commemorate Yan Siqi's great cause of opening taiwan
Located in the center of the park is the main building, Siqi Hall, which is divided into two floors.
The first floor is mainly used as a public area, and the recently opened "Love Across the Straits" Taiwan Strait Photography Exhibition is exhibited here. The second floor is built as a cultural exhibition hall with the same root on both sides of the strait, which is the core part of the park. The exhibition hall is divided into three parts: Qingjiao Historical Tales, Shengwang Kaitai and Chaoyong Cangjiang, with Yan Siqi Kaitai culture as the main line, telling the history of cross-strait exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan, and displaying the humanistic style of Haicang.
The opening stage was out of the Holy King, and the Yan clan was famous
Loyalty drives away the cold night, and civilization follows the dawn
Future
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Don't forget to take a walk around the park!