Culture Research On Weihai Port City During Ming&Qing Dynasty

The year 1398 AD(Hongwu31, Ming Dynasty) ,the government set Weihaiwei there, that's why this place called as Weihai most possibly. The name shows the government's will-control the east sea. We can see the mark for Weihai clearly in the book-haidaojing which was drawed by Jin Lvxiang in the late of Song Dynasty. So we can conclude that,the name was gotten no later than the late of Song Dynasty, and the Ming government just followed the name.It had been developed into a very important martial port after the Ming Dynasty set Wei there. During neoteric days,it had been the encampment of Beiyang Navy. In the Jiawu War, weihai was occupied by enemy and destroyed a lot. In May,the year guangxu 25,the Britsh rented it by force and built business district in this city and made it a free port. Its fuction as a business port was more remarkable. May, the year guangxu 25,the Britsh rented it by force and built business district in this city and made it a free port. Its fuction as a business port was more remarkable. Weihai has been the port for boats from all over the world from of old, So all kinds of cultures reach there,too. We call it Weihai culture of the blending ones. And Fahua yard in Chishan is the most typical, which did a lot to the comunication of buddhism between China, Japan and Korea. Businessmen on the sea came there with Macro belief. These formed the belief pattern of sea-gods inculding Marco, dragon king and the first king. The gnome, kitchen god,plutus and mountain immortal and so on,these trational and typical beliefs in agricultural society still had their room. All that shows that culture of Weihai port city is the blending of continent and sea cultures.