Xiamen m'chigawo cha Fujian ankakonda kudziwika ndi anthu a ku Ulaya ndi North America monga "Amoy". Dzina limachokera ku chinenero chimene chinayankhulidwa ndi anthu kumeneko. Anthu a dera lino - kum'mwera kwa Fujian ndi Taiwan - amalankhula Hokkien, chilankhulo chimene chimalankhulidwa ndi anthu ammudzi. Ngakhale lero, Chimandarini ndi chinenero chofala kwa bizinesi ndi sukulu.
Nyanja Yamakedzana
Mizinda ya Fujian yomwe ili m'mphepete mwa nyanja, kuphatikizapo Quanzhou (lero mudzi woposa 7 miliyoni zomwe mwina simunamvepo), anali mizinda yotchuka ya port.
Quanzhou ndi doko loopsa kwambiri la China ku Tang Dynasty . Marco Polo adalongosola za malonda ake akuluakulu pa ulendo wake waulendo.
Xiamen anali phokoso lotanganidwa kwambiri loyambira m'Nyumba ya Nyimbo. Pambuyo pake, Iyo inakhala malo otetezeka komanso othawa kwawo a Ming omwe ankamenyana ndi a Manchu Qing Dynasty. Koxinga, mwana wamalonda wamalonda adakhazikitsa malo ake odana ndi Qing m'derali ndipo lero chifaniziro chachikulu mwa ulemu wake chikuyang'ana pa doko kuchokera ku chilumba cha Gulang Yu.
Kufika kwa Azungu
Amishonale a Chipwitikizi anafika m'zaka za zana la 16 koma adathamangitsidwa mwamsanga. Kenako amalonda a ku Britain ndi a ku Dutch adayima mpaka sitima inatsekedwa kuti agulitse m'zaka za zana la 18. Sipanafike pa nkhondo yoyamba ya Opium ndi pangano la Nanking mu 1842 kuti Xiamen inatsegulidwanso panja pamene idakhazikitsidwa ngati Phukusi limodzi la Mipangano yotseguka kwa amalonda akunja.
Panthawi imeneyo tiyi ambiri omwe anasiya China anatulutsidwa kuchokera ku Xiamen. Gulang Yu, chilumba chaling'ono kuchokera ku Xiamen, adapatsidwa kwa alendo ndipo malo onsewa adakhala alendo.
Zambiri za zomangidwe zoyambirira zatsala. Yendani m'misewu lero ndipo mungaganize kuti muli ku Ulaya.
Nkhondo Yachiwiri, Yachiwiri Yadziko Lonse ndi pambuyo pa 1949
Anthu a ku Japan anali atakhala kale ku Taiwan, kenako Formosa, kuyambira mu 1838 mpaka 1945. Atafika ku Japan atagonjetsedwa ndi Allies ku WWII ndi China adagonjetsedwa ndi Chikomyunizimu, Xiamen anakhala mbuyo.
Chiang Kai-Shek anatenga Kuomintang ndi chuma cha dziko lonse cha China kudutsa ku Strait ku Taiwan ndipo kotero Xiamen anakhala patsogolo kutsutsana ndi nkhondo ya KMT. Republic of People's Republic of China sizinakhazikitse malowa poopa kuti chitukuko chilichonse kapena makampani adzayang'aniridwa ndi adani awo, omwe tsopano agonjetsedwa ku Taiwan.
Ndipo kudutsa mchimake, Jinmen Island ya Taiwan, yomwe ili pamtunda wa makilomita pang'ono kuchokera ku gombe la Xiamen, inakhala chimodzi mwa zilumba zazikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi monga Taiwan ankaopa kuukiridwa kuchokera ku dzikoli.
Zaka za m'ma 1980
Pambuyo pa kusintha kwa Deng Xiaoping kutsogolera ndi kutsegula, Xiamen anabadwanso. Imeneyi inali imodzi mwa malo oyamba azachuma ku China ndipo inalandira ndalama zolimbikitsana osati kuchokera ku dziko lonse komanso kuchokera ku malonda ochokera ku Taiwan ndi Hong Kong. Pomwe mgwirizano pakati pa China China (PRC) ndi Taiwan kulamulidwa ndi KMT inayamba kumasuka, Xiamen adakhala malo ogulitsa malonda akubwera ku dziko.
Xiamen yamakono
Lero Xiamen ikuwonetsedwa ndi Chitchaina ngati umodzi wa mizinda yabwino kwambiri. Mlengalenga ndi yoyera (ndi ma Chinese) ndipo anthu kumeneko amakhala ndi moyo wapamwamba kwambiri. Ali ndi malo aakulu obiriwira ndipo malo okwera pamphepete mwa nyanja adakonzedwa chifukwa cha zosangalatsa - osati masewera a panyanja komanso maulendo aatali othamanga, omwe sapezeka m'midzi ya China.
Ndilo njira yotsegulira chigawo china cha Fujian, malo omwe amapezeka ndi alendo ochokera ku China ndi ochokera kunja.