澳门是中国最早对外开放的港口城市之一。但它如何在明朝中国的体制下开放给葡萄牙人,其性质和作用如何,曾经引起朝野内外的争论,也经历了一个漫长的演变过程,并最终得以发展成为一个商业城市。澳门港口城市早期形成、发展的特殊政治环境、行政形态和社会生活经验,造就了澳门“和而不同,不同而和”的特性和传统,承传数百年而生生不灭。 Macau is one of the earliest port cities in China to open to the outside world. However, how did it open to the Portuguese under the Ming Chinese regime? The nature and the role of the regime have caused controversy both inside and outside the country and the country and have undergone a long process of evolution and eventually developed into a commercial city. The special political environment, administrative form and experience of social life formed and developed in the port city of Macao at the early stage have created Macao’s characteristics and traditions of “harmony and difference, harmony and harmony”, and inherit for hundreds of years.