Weitouwan villagers

Weitou is a fishing village. At the southernmost tip of the peninsula, there are several families, including Wu, Hong, Zhou and Chen, with thousands of people. People around the head "rely on mountains to eat mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea", or beg for the sea for a living, or farm for food, or both, and live a poor and self-sufficient life. Day after day, year after year, people who can't stand poverty and dullness finally look beyond the sea. In fact, the road is at the foot, and the surrounding head is the port. According to the Records of Jinjiang County compiled by Zhou Xuezeng and others in the Qing Dynasty, Wai Tou described it this way: Looking at the sea from a distance, boats and boats from north to south must pass by. Weitouwan is a natural harbor with vast sea and deep water. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou attached great importance to Weitou Bay when it began to develop foreign trade, and was known as the "Pearl of the East China Sea". Taiwan Province's rice, sugar, sugarcane, bananas and other local products are continuously transported from Weitou Port to all parts of the mainland, and mainland cigarettes, wine, textiles and medicinal materials are also transported from here to all parts of Southeast Asia. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Quanzhou's glory as the largest port in the East has gone forever, and the surrounding head has naturally been greatly affected. Maritime trade is weakening, and the peninsula is sparsely populated, so many people set out from here to make a living abroad. Because they lived in a place called "Fanbang" by their hometown people for many years, they became "Ke Fan" in their hometown and were later called overseas Chinese. Hometown will always appear in their minds as "Tangshan".