史料记载,公元13世纪以前,澳门还是一个荒无人烟的小岛南宋绍兴二十二年,澳门地区归属香山县范围南宋末年,南宋王朝南逃路经此地,澳门开始有人定居明弘治元年,船民祈求神灵庇佑在澳门半岛西南端建立了妈祖阁,戍为澳门重要标志古代海上丝绸之路需途经澳门。尤其在明代,澳门因为十字门的独特地理位置及作用,成为海上丝绸之路最重要的中转点、贯通世界的黄金航道。明代中后期,澳门更成为国际闻名的贸易港,担负起联络欧、亚、非和美洲四大洲海上贸易航线的中枢港角色。1497年,葡萄牙人第一次环绕非洲抵达印度的加尔各答,东方航线从此被发现。中葡战争爆发后,葡萄牙于1557年进入澳门,通过各种手段占据澳门,大肆扩张。 Historical records show that before the 13th century, Macao was still an uninhabited island. In the 22nd year of Shaoxing, Southern Song Dynasty, the territory of Xiangshan County belongs to the scope of Southern Song Dynasty in Southern Song Dynasty. Southern Song dynasty went south to escape here. Some people began settling in Ming Hongzhi in Macao in the first year. God bless the establishment in the southwestern tip of the Macao Peninsula Mazu Pavilion, an important symbol of Macau, the ancient maritime Silk Road via Macau. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, Macao became the most important transit point of the Maritime Silk Road and the golden waterway running through the world because of the unique geographical position and function of the Cross Gate. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Macao became an internationally renowned trading port, taking on the role of a central port connecting the maritime trade routes on four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In 1497, for the first time, the Portuguese arrived in Calcutta, India, around Africa and the Eastern Route was discovered there. After the Sino-Portuguese war broke out, Portugal entered Macao in 1557 and occupied Macao by various means and expanded aggressively.