Topic summary
Yantai City
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Yantai.
Early history
Up to the 19th century, however, the Zhifu area close to Yantai city consisted of nothing but small unwalled fishing villages of little importance. Under the Ming dynasty, these were first troubled by the Wokou and then by the overreacting "Sea Ban", which required coastal Chinese to give up trading and most fishing and relocate inland upon pain of death.