| 英文摘要 |
In time immemorial, the mainland and Taiwan were connected, and it was not until about 12000 to 45000 years ago that the sea regressed and the sea level dropped. People from Min-nan and Bai-yueh on the mainland immigrated to Taiwan and became the aboriginals as well as the earliest developers. In the Period of Three Kingdoms (230 A. D.), Sun Quan, the king of Wu, sent troops to Taiwan. Then throughout the rule of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the Southern Sung Dynasty and the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, people like Yan Si-Qi and Zheng Zhi-long contributed to the development of Taiwan. After Zheng Cheng-gong restored Taiwan from Dutch colonials in 1662, his son Zheng Jing built garrisons and settlements here, which resulted in the significant development in the agriculture and foreign trade of Taiwan.
In the Qing Dynasty, the government's development of Taiwan was unforeseen. During the rule of Emperor Yongzheng, only one hundred thousand people emigrated from the mainland to Taiwan. By the sixteenth year of Emperor Jiaqing (1811 A. D.), the population of Taiwan increased to two million, three thousand, eight hundred and 61 people. Due to the construction of hydraulic systems and the introduction of new species of rice, in the middle of Emperor Qianlong's rule, Taiwan exported noticeably abundant rice, camphor and sugarcanes to the mainland. |
