Daoguang was the eighth emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the sixth emperor after the Qing army entered the Pass.
He was also considered a long-lived emperor in the Qing Dynasty, and this reign title was used for a total of thirty years.
During Minning's reign, the Opium War broke out, which shocked China and foreign countries, marking the beginning of my country's modern history.
The modern history of our country is a history of humiliation.
Therefore, no matter how some domestic experts try to clean up Emperor Daoguang, they cannot clean up the fact that he has repeatedly lost power and humiliated the country.
It was during the reign of Daoguang that people in Greater China stripped off even the last trace of their underwear. How could they clean it?
Say he is diligent and loves the people? He fights despite repeated defeats? He is indomitable despite repeated defeats?
It's all nonsense. This is an out-and-out prodigal. Of course, Jiaqing and Qianlong are all the same.
If we say there were a few commendable emperors in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they can only be counted as one and a half.
One is Yongzheng, the other half is Kangxi, and the others are not sons of man!
Chen Wenzhe was not interested in Daoguang, but the porcelain from the Daoguang period should still have some of the last glimmers of the third Qing dynasty, and he could still take a look at it.
If the number is large, then the harvest this time will definitely be the same.
"Look over there, there is a piece of porcelain, it seems to be a white glazed powder box. This is pure porcelain for export. It seems that since the Tang and Song Dynasties, foreigners who came to China have to buy this kind of porcelain box!"
Previously, Chen Wenzhe also discovered many porcelain boxes with blue and white glaze on the sunken ship of the Song Dynasty.
There are other reports that this thing is found on many sunken ships.
Unexpectedly, something like this was found on this sunken ship from the late Qing Dynasty.
After that, more porcelain was discovered, the representative of which was the green-brown glaze porcelain vase.
It seems that this kind of porcelain bottle was also found on the "Taixing".
In fact, this is normal if you think about it, because the Daoguang period was a very special period.
The sailing ships that appeared here during this period can be regarded as the last witness and epitome of my country's ancient Maritime Silk Road.
Because the "Taixing" sank in 1822, the Opium War broke out less than 20 years after it.
Since then, our ancient sailing ships have disappeared from the sea forever.
During this period, all the great powers in the world saw the weakness of the Qing Dynasty.
Since it is weak, the interests in the sea must be given up.
Therefore, at this stage, Manchu ships going to sea would be hunted by a large number of so-called pirates.
The Taixing was not an accident, and the sunken ship discovered by Chen Wenzhe was not an exception either.
From this perspective, it can be said that my country's ancient Maritime Silk Road, which lasted for more than 2,000 years, finally came to an end with the sinking of wooden sailing ships such as the "Tai Xing".
The "Taixing" and this unknown sunken ship are the last "sail shadows" of my country's ancient Maritime Silk Road.
This ship probably sank not much later than the Taixing.
Therefore, the porcelain on this ship should be similar to the porcelain on the Taixing.
Sure enough, as the submarine kept approaching the ship, Chen Wenzhe and others saw countless blue and white porcelain scattered on the seabed.
Densely packed, countless blue and white porcelains are spread all over the seabed.
Judging from the traces, there should be quite a few buried in the sand.
And just judging from the exposed part of the porcelain, the utensils carried by this sunken ship are very rich and colorful.
Of course, it can also be seen from this that the vast majority of the cargo carried on the ship is ceramics.
Just looking around, there are more than tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain on the seabed.
Most of these porcelain are blue and white porcelain, and there are also some white-glazed, multi-colored, and green-brown glazed porcelain.
Chen Wenzhe even saw some purple sand among them.
Most of these porcelains are blue and white porcelain produced in Dehua in the 18th and early 19th centuries for export to the Asian market.
The main types of porcelain are blue and white plates, bowls, cups, saucers, jars, tureens and other daily-use porcelain.
For example, the blue and white broken branch pattern plate, the blue and white broken branch peony pattern plate, etc. are all standard porcelain for export.
Among them, the colorful porcelain should be more valuable.
This kind of porcelain was also found on the Taixing ship that year and was auctioned.
The colorful plates and green-brown glazed dishes from the Taixing, as well as some of the Dehua blue and white porcelain salvaged that year, were all auctioned in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dehua, the hometown of these porcelains, also went there and took back 72 pieces of ancient porcelain treasures.
However, most of the porcelain produced with water is now scattered around the world, and most of them are collected by private collectors, and are rarely collected in China.
For a long time, we have not been clear about the overall appearance of Taixing porcelain, and our research on it is insufficient.
Until November 2018, Panlu Group purchased 120,000 relics from the "Taixing" shipwreck from the British Commonwealth Precious Metals Company.
These treasures, which had been lying dormant on the seabed for 200 years with the "Taixing", finally had the opportunity to set foot on their homeland.
In 2020, Panlu Group donated 100 pieces of porcelain from the "Taixing" shipwreck to the China Maritime Museum.
In the past, because porcelain excavated from the "Taixing" shipwreck was rarely seen in China, and research was insufficient, there were almost no exhibitions on the theme of the "Taixing" shipwreck.
The special exhibition of cultural relics unearthed from the sunken ship "Tai Xing" is based on the porcelain excavated from the "Tai Xing" shipwreck in the China Maritime Museum, and is jointly organized by Dehua Ceramics Museum and Panlu Group.
It is the first large-scale exhibition of cultural relics from the sunken ship "Taixing" in China, and it is also a rare original exhibition.
The exhibition displays more than 400 pieces of porcelain from the "Taixing" shipwreck, covering blue and white, white glaze, multicolored, green and brown glaze and other categories.
Including more than 10 types of bowls, plates, saucers, cups, bowls, bottles, boxes, sculptures, etc., it can basically show the overall appearance of the "Taixing" Dehua kiln porcelain.
In modern society, with the rise of the Internet, many things have been exposed on the Internet, so we only know what kind of porcelain was found on the Taixing.
For example, the Dehua kiln blue and white Ganoderma lucidum plate, the Dehua kiln white glaze figure, etc. are among the best.
There is also a blue and white flower pattern plate with water, which is also a representative work.
The blue and white porcelain of the Wanqing period mainly consisted of bowls, plates, saucers, cups, boxes, spoons and other daily necessities.
These porcelains are decorated with travertine, flowers, flower baskets, circles, figures, characters, landscapes, animals and other patterns. They have a clear layout, regular shapes and various patterns.
For example, the blue and white powder box in front of you has been unearthed from various kiln sites in Dehua.
This can also fully reflect the important status of Dehua kiln as a famous export kiln in ancient my country.
In the past, Chen Wenzhe knew that Dehua kiln was a powerful exporter, but he did not have a clear understanding.
But now he knows that through these several discoveries of shipwrecks, especially the porcelain produced from the shipwrecks, he has definitely seen the superior position of Dehua kiln in exports.
All these discoveries have reproduced the thousand-year development history of Dehua kiln, a famous export kiln.
It also allowed Dehua to solidify its status as one of the three major ancient porcelain capitals in my country.