通过考察过去150年以香港为中心的米粮贸易活动,本文试图初窥这一为历史学家所长期遗忘的历史,并进而揭示出潮汕商人在其间所扮演的举足轻重的角色。本文力图证实,潮汕商人不仅是香港开埠时期对外经济活动的参与者及奠基者,而且实际上长期主宰了印支半岛至华南整个区域的稻米贸易。对历史上潮汕商人的活动与贡献,应从更广泛的区域经济圈的角度来重新加以认识和评估。 By examining the cereal trade activities in Hong Kong for the past 150 years, this article attempts to glimpse the history of long forgotten by historians and to reveal the pivotal role played by Chaoshan businessmen during this period. This article seeks to confirm that Chaoshan businessmen are not only participants and founders of foreign economic activities during the opening of Hong Kong, but in fact have long dominated rice trade in the entire Indian Peninsula to southern China. The activities and contributions of Chaoshan businessmen in history should be re-identified and evaluated from the perspective of a wider regional economic circle.