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After the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. The countryside went bankrupt and all industries withered. Bankrupt farmers and craftsmen had to leave their homes and go out to make a living. In addition, in order to develop colonies, the Western colonialists needed a large number of cheap labor and began to sell Chinese labor on the southeast coast of China. This formed the first large-scale immigration wave. A large number of Chinese came overseas and worked hard in foreign lands to make a living. The history of overseas Chinese over the past century is both a history of arduous entrepreneurial struggle and a history of sufferings stained with blood and tears. It contains not only their tears and blood, but also their hardships and hardships. It also contains their pure hearts and their common hatred for the enemy, and they fought together for the national calamity. After reading this, one cannot help but stand in awe of the patriotic overseas Chinese.