Haicheng () is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an o ...
of
Longhai City
Longhai District () is a District in Zhangzhou, in the south of Fujian province, China.
Longhai spans an area of , and, as of 2016, it has a population of approximately 736,400.
History
Following the revocation of the sea ban (''haijin'') in the ...
,
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...
,
China
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. , it has 5 residential communities and 19 villages under its administration.
History
Haicheng used to be known as
Yuegang (
"Moon Harbor") for its crescent-shaped shoreline. It was a bustling port during the Ming dynasty even under the
sea ban
The Haijin () or sea ban was a series of related isolationist policies in China restricting private maritime trading and coastal settlement during most of the Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty. Despite official proclamations the Ming policy was ...
(''haijin'') which prohibited private maritime trade. Following the revocation of the sea ban in the 1567, the old smuggling port of Yuegang was renamed to Haicheng ("clear seas") and was designated to be the port where foreign trade (except with Japan) was to be conducted in Fujian. Haicheng became a key port for China's
silver trade with
Manila
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in the
Spanish
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Philippines
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and rose to become one of Fujian's four main commercial ports.
References
Township-level divisions of Fujian
Longhai City
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