China's underwater archeology has discovered that a large amount of porcelain was found in a Qing Dynasty sailing ship. What significance does it have for historical research?

These ancient cultural relics are very exquisite, and they may have historical records on them. ?

In the 1980s, due to the lack of comprehensive laws for the protection of underwater cultural relics by the Chinese government, an incident occurred abroad in which a former ship sank in the South China Sea was plundered and rescued, resulting in the loss of a large number of cultural relics, which caused With the attention of the Chinese government, China began to form a Chinese underwater archaeological team. Who would have thought that the underwater archaeological team had not yet completed its recruitment, but in the waters of Yangjiang, Guangdong, in the process of cooperating with the British expedition team, they accidentally discovered a sunken ship from the Song Dynasty, with a large number of exquisite porcelain and precious cultural relics on it. In 1987 year fixed.

About 200 pieces of porcelain left the ship, and they were between the Song and Ming dynasties. They are mainly products of local popular furnaces in eastern Guangdong, with a few produced in Zhangzhou, Fujian and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. It is speculated that it should have been produced during the Wanli to Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty. It vividly reflects the work and production levels at that time, as well as people's aesthetic concepts and life interests. It is of great significance to the study of ancient Chinese maritime trade and Guangdong ceramic culture.

By the time of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, Chaozhou porcelain had been exported to Rome and Egypt; in the Song Dynasty, Chaozhou's Bijia Mountain furnace was very popular. On both sides of the Han River, there are ten miles of riverside and fireworks. Therefore, Chaozhou is known as the porcelain capital. During the Ming Dynasty, Chaozhou porcelain created another peak period of production and export. Experts believe that a large number of folk porcelain products of different ages and local ovens in "Nanhai No. 2" will provide valuable cultural relics for studying the foreign trade of the ancient Chaoshan region.

It is not only a search for a ship carrying tens of thousands of rare treasures, but also contains unimaginable information and unusual academic value. Since "Nanhai No. 1" is not only on the "Maritime Silk Road", but also the quantity and type of its collections are extremely rich and precious, it provides the most credible model for this historical research. The exploration and excavation of these underwater cultural relics resources can restore and fill a historical gap closely related to the Maritime Silk Road in ancient China, and can also bring about the emergence of "Maritime Silk Road Research".