1843年厦门开埠后,厦门英租界较早开辟,并先于鼓浪屿公共租界成为当时新的城市商业中心。厦门英租界的建设和发展,打破了以厦门老城区为中心的传统格局,城市由此开始向厦门岛西南滨水地带延伸发展。外人在厦门英租界建造的殖民式建筑,也成为19世纪下半叶西方建筑在厦门早期传播的重要部分之一。 After the opening of Xiamen in 1843, the Xiamen British Concession opened up earlier and became the new city commercial center before the Gulangyu Public Settlement. The construction and development of the British concession in Xiamen broke the traditional pattern centered around the old city of Xiamen, and the city thus began to extend its development to the southwestern Xiamen waterfront. The colonial architecture built by foreigners in the concession of Xiamen in the United Kingdom also became an important part of the early spread of western architecture in Xiamen in the second half of the 19th century.