福建是我国著名的侨乡,早在鸦片战争以前,许多福建人就远走南洋,在马六甲、新加坡、巴达维亚等地谋生。1814年,当嘉庆帝颁布“禁止西人传教,查出论死,入教者发极边”的禁教令后,早期东来传教士失去了在中国本土传教的活动空间,福建侨民众多的南洋便成为他们的主要活动地区。鸦片战争后,福州、厦门被定为通商口岸,在中国传教的禁令也已被废止, Fujian is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. As early as before the Opium War, many Fujian people had fled Nanyang to make a living in Malacca, Singapore and Batavia. In 1814, when Emperor Jiaqing promulgated the forbidding injunction to preach Westerners and found out that death was on the side of the teachers, the Emperors sent an early polemic to the missionaries, the early East missionaries lost their space for missionary activities in China, and the Nanyang Become their main activity area. After the Opium War, Fuzhou and Xiamen were designated as ports of commerce, and the ban on missionary work in China had also been abolished.