雞籠（和平島）在明中葉以前，已是東亞國際貿易的轉口中心。明末西班牙人、荷蘭人相繼進佔，實為歐人將臺灣納為近代世界體系邊陲的一環。明鄭驅逐荷蘭人，使臺灣從近代世界體系的「邊陲」翻轉為「外部競爭場」，並維持雞籠的國際貿易轉口地位。入清後，臺灣成為中國天朝體制內福建省的一個府，雞籠乃從國際貿易的角色退場，並歷經從康熙時期既無駐兵、也無漢村、只有巴賽人部落的狀態，轉為雍正時期設「雞籠汛」後改稱「大雞籠汛」的輪防，再到乾隆初期始有駐軍、乾隆中期已為臺北軍防之外圍的變遷。與此同時，雍乾時期漢人移入定居，乾隆年間他們和巴賽人共同遷建「大雞籠港口天后宮」，漢人漁民建立了「社靈廟」，在在反映清初和平島名稱因軍防而從雞籠到大雞籠的變遷中，其聚落已轉型為以漁業營生、信仰媽祖王爺、原漢相融共存的特性。

Before the mid-Ming Dynasty, Jilong[雞籠] (Heping Island) had been one of the entrepot centers of East Asia's international trade. In the late Ming Dynasty, the Spaniards and the Dutch invaded one after another. In fact, the Europeans annexed Taiwan as a part of the frontier of the Modern World System. The Ming-Zheng regime expulsed the Dutch and turned Taiwan from the “frontier” to an “external field of competition” of the Modern World System, and maintained its status as an entrepot in international trade. In the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan became a prefecture of Fujian Province within the Chinese Celestial Empire System. Since then, Jilong[雞籠] retired from the role of international trade. There was only the Basai tribe in the island without garrison and Han people village in Kangxi period. and gradually transformed into the “Jilong Xun”[雞籠汛] during Yongzheng period, when a rotational garrison was set up and renamed as the “Great Jilong Xun”[大雞籠汛] later; Furthermore, it began to have garrisoned troops in the early Qianlong period, and became the outer periphery of Taipei's military defense in the middle of the Qianlong period. Meanwhile, during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, the Han people moved in the island and settled down. They and the Basai people relocated and built the “Tianhou Temple in Great Jilong Harbor”, and the Han fishermen built the “Five Princes Temple” during the Qianlong period. Influenced by military policies, the name of Heping Island in the early Qing Dynasty changed from “Jilong” [雞籠] to “Great Jilong” [大雞籠]. This process was companied with the evolvement of settlement transformation and showed the characteristics of fishery-related livelihoods, Mazu and Wang Ye worship, and the coexistence between the aboriginals and the Han people.