1842年2月24日,清道光二十二年的正月十五日,美国人雅裨理搭乘英国海军军舰抵达鼓浪屿。这位手捧《圣经》踏浪而来的美国归正教会传教士,是自鸦片战争后第一位来华的传教士。第二天,雅裨理就在鼓浪屿街头开始了布道,听者不过几个英国军舰的水兵。对于鸡犬相闻的渔耕聚落鼓浪屿来说,没有人意识到,鼓浪屿从此与世界结下了不解之缘。 On February 24, 1842, on the fifteenth day of the twenty-second year of the Qing dynasty, the American Jacob arrived in Gulangyu by British naval warship. The Protestant missionary, who holds the Bible in his hand, was the first missionary to China since the Opium War. The very next day, Arrilith began his sermon on the streets of Gulangyu, but the listeners, however, were a few sailors of British warships. Gulangyu fishing for the culprit known to no one, no one realized that Gulangyu island and the world has become indecipherable.