Where is the former site of Longjiang Bao Shipyard?

Longjiang Bao Shipyard Site is a national AAA-level tourist attraction and a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Longjiang Shipyard Site is located in Bao Zhong Village near Sancha River in the northwest of Nanjing.

Longjiang Bao Shipyard, also known as Longjiang Shipyard and Bao Shipyard. It was named because it was located near Longjiang Pass (now Xiaguan) in Nanjing at that time. It faces the Yangtze River in the west and Qinhuai River in the east. "Hongwuchu, that is, the northwest corner of the capital, opened a factory to build a ship." What was recorded in Li's Longjiang Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty refers to this area.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Longjiang Shipyard was large in scale. Its scope is "east to Cheng Hao, west to Wei Junmin Hall in Qinhuai, northwest to the official gallery base of Yifeng Gate, south to the left-behind right-back military camp base, and north to the alfalfa field of Nanjing Ministry of War and Pengcheng Bozhangtian". East-west width 138, north-south length 354. It covers an area of over 500,000 square meters. From the Ming Dynasty, it was gradually abandoned, and the whole site became farmland and ponds. At that time, local people called it "Zuo Tang". At present, there are still the specific positions of the first to seventh works in the site that can be identified. Each work is rectangular, and the east and west directions are side by side. Among them, the fourth, fifth and sixth works are well preserved, especially the fourth, which is the largest pier left over from that year. Now it is about 300 meters long and 30 meters wide, and the water depth is about 1 meter. There is thick silt under the water. This shows that the dock was large enough to build Zheng He's fleet.

After liberation, wood, components and tools for shipbuilding were found in the pond mud of the village where Longjiang Fort Shipyard was located. 1953, square non-porous wood with a length of more than ten meters was planted in the site of Sizutang. 1In May, 957, a huge rudder with a length of11.07m was unearthed in Liuzuotang. 1965, the stranded wood with a length of 2.22 meters was fished out of Wenjiadangtang pond (that is, four ponds). 1983 another stone mortar was found, and a small amount of putty remained in the mortar, which seems to be a tool for ramming putty in shipbuilding that year. 1974 A 4-claw copper anchor with a length of 2.65m was dug at Dinghuaimen. 1975 Big iron anchor found in Sancha River. In addition, shipbuilding materials such as camphor wood and wood veneer leather were also found. The discovery of these cultural relics provides us with important material data for studying the history of Longjiang Bao Shipyard, Bao Ship and Zheng He's voyages to the West.

In 2006, Longjiang Shipyard site, as an ancient site in Ming Dynasty, was listed in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

Address: No.57 Lijiang Road, Gulou District, Nanjing

Type: Monument

Grade: AAA

Tel: 025-862270 1 1

Opening hours:

8:30- 17:30