During the Song Dynasty, the entrances of Hu Jian's Dehua Kiln, Nan'an Kiln, and Cizao Kiln all belonged to the Quan City area of Hu Jian, so this ship probably set sail from the Quan City port back then.
During the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties of my country, Hu Jianquan Port was world-renowned as the largest trading port in the East.
There are many businessmen from South Asia, West Asia and Europe here.
Porcelain, silk, tea, lacquerware and other commodities from all over our country are continuously transported to Quangang, where they are then shipped out to sea and sold overseas.
Porcelain was my country's largest foreign trade commodity in the Song Dynasty. In order to save costs, large quantities of porcelain were produced nearby and shipped nearby.
This greatly stimulated the production of local porcelain kilns in Hu Jian, forming an export porcelain production base centered on Quangang.
Just like the porcelain on this ship, more than 80% come from Dehua kiln, Cizao kiln, Nan'an kiln and other folk kilns in Quangang area.
It can be inferred from this that the ship's departure place was Quangang.
It departed from Quangang, Fujian, and sank in the southern waters of the Paracel Islands, indicating that it traveled on the Maritime Silk Road route.
According to literature, before the Song Dynasty in my country, people in Southeast Asia used banana leaves as plates, sunflower leaves as bowls, and bamboo woven coconut shells as utensils.
my country's large-scale export of porcelain has changed their way of dining and influenced their food culture. It can also be said to have had an important impact on the world.
The ship excavated by Chen Wenzhe and the porcelain it carried bear witness to this history.
For example, one of the flower-mouthed vases has a flat mouth, pure glaze color, lotus pattern carved on the belly, and an everted rim, like a blooming flower.
What is interesting is that similar flower-mouthed vases have also been excavated in the Philippines, and they can be compared.
The shapes, glaze colors and patterns are very similar, indicating that this type of flower-mouthed vases were once exported to Southeast Asia.
This ship is the first Chinese Song Dynasty shipwreck to be salvaged in its entirety in Southeast Asia.
It is undoubtedly a very precious historical relic, providing extremely precious information for the study of ancient my country's development of the South China Sea, as well as the history of shipbuilding, navigation, trade, and cultural exchanges.
Since the 1990s, my country's underwater archaeological team has conducted a large-scale survey of underwater cultural relics in the South China Sea and discovered many underwater cultural relics in the South China Sea.
Let my country's ancient Maritime Silk Road, after being silent for many years, be clearly displayed in front of the world.
The discovery of cultural relics in the South China Sea has once again proved that many of our ancestors have been working and trading here since ancient times, and have lived here for generations. It also fully proves that the South China Sea has been ours since ancient times.
"Boss, how about we leave for a while first?"
While Chen Wenzhe was happily studying various harvests, Gao Qijing said a little frustrated.
"Why? The typhoon has passed and the New Year has passed. Naturally, we have to work together. Are you homesick? If you are homesick, change people." Chen Wenzhe said nonchalantly.
Now Chen Wenzhe is involved in salvaging sunken ships. Even if he hasn't been home for the New Year, he naturally doesn't want to leave at this time.
Gao Qijing said helplessly: "Boss, we have attracted others' attention and are being targeted."
"I know, but can we retreat? If we evacuate here this time, what will we find the next time we come here? Destroyed ship planks, or hundreds of thousands of porcelain pieces that were deliberately broken?"
Following Gao Qijing onto the deck, Chen Wenzhe looked at several ships around him.
These ships are no longer the small sampans found in surrounding countries, but have become giant ships.
One of them was extremely large, with a displacement of seven to eight thousand tons.
But will he be afraid? And his confidence is Gao Qijing and the others.
"The foreigner on that ship is very famous..."
"Are you afraid of him?" Chen Wenzhe looked at Gao Qijing.
"Of course I'm not afraid, but I'm afraid of causing a conflict and hurting the boss, so boss, you'd better retreat to the country and leave this place to us. We will never let the boss down."
Chen Wenzhe smiled. This was when he realized Gao Qijing.
Gao Qijing is unyielding and would rather break than bend.
Otherwise, he would not have persisted here for twenty years with a group of comrades who were unwilling to return to the interior.
"Don't worry about me, just do whatever you have to do!" Chen Wenzhe looked at the giant ship not far away.
He is now confident because Gao Qijing and the others are really strong.
Of course, this strength definitely comes not only from Gao Qijing's force, but also depends on the strength of the country behind each person.
Is our country strong in the South China Sea?
Anyone who understands this place should be trembling with fear.
Not to mention anything else, it is just an ugly country. Why do they keep stirring up trouble here? They have stumbled countless times but cannot shake our country. Why?
Because here in our country, we can turn a reef into a small island in one day.
Not just to brag, but it can really blow the sediment from the bottom of the sea onto the reef to form a small island.
This kind of black technology is still not understood by clowns abroad.
Therefore, now in the South China Sea, countless islands and reefs in our country have become small islands, and the cutest people are stationed on them.
With their support behind him, what is Chen Wenzhe afraid of?
"Damn it, those foreigners are destroying porcelain again!"
At this moment, Gao Qijing said viciously again.
Chen Wenzhe took a telescope and looked over. Sure enough, some porcelain was salvaged from the ship over there.
However, these porcelains were obviously severely corroded.
This kind of porcelain cannot be repaired, and the foreigners who clean it think it is worthless.
So when they found this kind of porcelain, they often destroyed it and threw it back into the ocean.
Foreigners salvaging ancient Chinese shipwrecks and destroying cultural relics often happen, especially overseas.
"Those bastards should now regret smashing more than 600,000 pieces of porcelain, right?"
"They should be regretting it. If they had put those hundreds of thousands of pieces of porcelain back to now, they would definitely be no worse than the batch of exquisite porcelain they sold back then!"
Chen Wenzhe felt a little emotional, what if he could find hundreds of thousands of pieces of porcelain at once?
No matter how large the quantity is, he doesn't mind it, and he will never have the stupid idea of artificially reducing the quantity in order to sell it at a high price.
You know, that ignorant foreigner smashed 650,000 cultural relics.
And how much profit did they make? Only a few hundred million yuan!
For such a small amount of money, those 650,000 pieces of porcelain would be easily sold at this time.
It's a pity that more than 20 years ago, our country's strength here was not good enough, so we could only let them do whatever they wanted.
If it were now, even if they discovered the sunken ship, Chen Wenzhe would dare to go and grab it.
There is nothing we can do about this. As the country becomes bigger, development will have to focus on it.