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Introduction to Shuangyu Port Church: The starting point of the development of Chinese oil painting is well documented when the Portuguese established a trading base in Shuangyu Port in Ningbo, Zhejiang during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, bringing the art style of oil painting into the country. China. Some art historians have concluded that "Western art was introduced to China beginning with Matteo Ricci." The Portuguese traveler F.M. Pinto records Shuangyu in Chapter 68 of "Travel Notes" Hong Kong: "There is a window on the same tower. Two children and an elderly woman are crying. At her feet, a man has been cut into four pieces. The image is very realistic. There are more than a dozen heavily armed gangsters (case) "The Spanish people are still killing people with bloody spears and halberds. The whole work of art is luxurious and spectacular, which makes people never tire of it." It is obvious that this is a Western painting painted on the window, a "luxurious and spectacular painting." "artwork. The same volume of the same book also contains: "His eyes stared at the group of statues around him, as close as a bright mirror." There are Western sculptures in the church in Shuangyu Port. Chapter 69 of the same book: "The acting bishop ran in front of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, looking at the image, raising his hands high... and said to the icon..." There is also a statue of "Our Lady of Immaculate Conception" in the church in Shuangyu Port. It can be said that this is the earliest written record of the introduction of European Western art into China that we can see so far. It was more than thirty years before Matteo Pilgrim arrived in Macau.