我国古代称海外贸易为市舶，市者，交易买卖之谓，舶者，海上大船之意，故称交易海上大船运来之货物为市舶，即今称之为海外贸易者。远在先秦时期，我国便有所谓海外贸易了，《诗经·商颂》有“相土烈烈，海上有截”之句可证。其发生最初当是在沿海民间中私人进行经营，后来从? In ancient China, overseas trade was the city ship, the market, the sale of the sale of the said, the ship, the meaning of the ship at sea, it said the transaction ships shipped to the city ship, now known as overseas traders. Far in the pre-Qin period, China had the so-called overseas trade. The Book of Songs, Shangsong, has the proof that “there is a strong phase in the sea and a sea is cut off.” Initially it happened when privately run coastal folk, and later from?