Clothes are relatively cheap in the Io Hon Market area in the North District of the Macau Peninsula.

Macao (Portuguese Macau, English Macao), referred to as "Macao", the full name is the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is located on the west side of the Pearl River Estuary in southern China, and is the boundary between mainland China and the South China Sea. At the intersection of water and land, it is adjacent to Guangdong Province, 60 kilometers away from Hong Kong and 145 kilometers away from Guangzhou. Macau consists of the Macau Peninsula and the two islands of Taipa and Coloane, with a land area of ??32.9 square kilometers. As of the end of 2020, the total population was 683,200.

In 1553, the Portuguese obtained the right of residence in Macau. On December 1, 1887, Portugal officially occupied Macau through the formalities of diplomatic documents. On December 20, 1999, the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao. Hundreds of years of collision between Eastern and Western cultures have turned Macau into a city with unique features, leaving behind a large number of historical and cultural relics. The Historic Center of Macau officially became a United Nations World Cultural Heritage on July 15, 2005.

Origin of the place name:

Macau used to be a small fishing village. Its real name was Haojing or Haojingao. Because the port of Bokou could be called "Ao" at that time, it was called "Macao" ". Macau and its surrounding areas are rich in oysters (oysters), so later generations changed the name to the more elegant "Hao Jing". "Macao Chronicles" published during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty said: "The name of Hao Jing was written in the History of the Ming Dynasty."

Five or six miles from east to west, half north and south, there are two bays, north and south, where boats can be parked. Or it can be called the North and South Bays, which are round as mirrors, so they are called Haojing. From this name, a series of other names for Macau such as Haojiang, Haijing and Jinghai are derived.

The English name of Macau comes from Mazu. In the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1553), the Portuguese obtained the right to reside in Macau from the local government of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty and became the first Europeans to enter China. At that time, the Portuguese landed near A-Ma Temple (A-Ma Temple) and asked the locals for the name of the place. Because it was next to A-Ma Temple, the locals answered A-Ma, so Macau was named Macau (the Portuguese transliteration of A-Ma Temple). ), mostly spelled Macao in mainland China.