It was about 200 years ago, at the height of the glorious Qianlong reign period of the Qing dynasty, that Britain's East India Company began transporting shiploads of opium paste from India and the Indochina peninsula through the South China Sea to Quanzhou in Fujian Province.
二百多年前，正值清乾隆全盛時代，英屬東印度公司開始將一船船鴉片膏自印度及中南半島源源不絕地向東運行，經南海後堂而皇之在福建泉州港停泊上岸。