1. More importantly, South Fujian also gradually became the primary stopover station for Western missionaries entering South China and other areas, in particular the Catholic Dominicans and Franciscans, all of whom regarded the South Fujian area as a springboard for expanding missionary work along the Chinese coast, and thus caused the South Fujian area to become another gateway for Catholicism to enter China at the end of the Ming Dynasty opposite Macau.
    更重要的是，闽南还逐渐成为西方传教士进入华南其他地区的主要中转站，尤其是天主教多明我会与方济各会，都曾以闽南地区作为跳板，向中国沿海扩张传教，由此使闽南地区成为明末与澳门相对应的另一个天主教入华门户。