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In this article, the term "sea port cities" does not simply refer to the ports as a facility for international trading. It is rather defined as the place where the innovative ideas and new brains are created and where diverse aspects of each culture are combined by the regional and international exchanges of cultures. This article is intended to identify how different cultures are interacting each other. The term "Cultural interaction" includes the acceptance of the new culture by a historical accident, conflicts with the native culture and intergration, and transformation into a new one. From the perspective mentioned above, this article is intended to identify the process of forming a new society and its mechanism comrehensively in historical, philosophical, literal aspects by understanding the interactions of the people and culture and the conflicts and acceptance, and the creation of the new culture in the Guangzhou(廣州) and Quanzhou(泉州) area in 16th century.