What is the best time to visit Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Exhibition Hall?

Best time to visit Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Exhibition Hall: Quanzhou can be visited all year round, and the best tourist season is generally April to November each year.

The Quanzhou Bay Ancient Ship Exhibition Hall is located in Kaiyuan Temple, Licheng District. The main exhibition room displays the Ning Dynasty shipwrecks excavated from Houzhu Port in Quanzhou Bay in 1974 and their accompanying unearthed objects. The remaining length of the sunken ship is 24.20 meters and the remaining width is 9.15 meters. The ship is flat and broad, with a sharp bottom. The hull is made of 2 to 3 layers of plates, and there are 13 watertight compartments. There are life-saving holes at the joints at both ends of the main keel. According to research, this is a medium-sized ocean freighter built in Quanzhou in the 13th century, with a length of 34 meters, a width of 11 meters, a depth of 4 meters, and a load capacity of more than 200 tons. At the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Exhibition Hall, we will learn about ancient Quanzhou and the rise and fall of ancient Citon Port from a large number of precious cultural relics and models. Quanzhou, known as Citong in ancient times, was the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road in the Middle Ages. Quanzhou once occupied an important historical position in the exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations. According to records, the earliest residents in Fujian were the Minyue people. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they were already good at building boats.

From the canoe fragments unearthed in Lianjiang, Fujian in 1920, traces of fire baking can be clearly seen, which shows that at that time, people were already able to use fire and stone axes to make canoes for maritime use. Activity. Developed from canoes, the sampan is shaped like a lifelike water bird. It already has some characteristics of the lucky boat and can be said to be the predecessor of the lucky boat. In the sixteenth century AD, Fuchuan became one of the most advanced types of ships in the world with its excellent performance and advanced technology. During the Sun Wu period of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin people moved southward due to the Yongjia Rebellion. Most of the ancestors with surnames such as Wang, Lin, Chen, Huang, Zheng, Tang, Qiu, He and Hu in Quanzhou area come from the Central Plains.

They came to both sides of the Jinjiang River, lived along the river, and began to call the river Jinjiang. In the third year of Yong'an reign of Emperor Wu Jing of the Three Kingdoms (AD 260), due to the migration of Jinjiang people to the south, the population in southern Fujian increased. Wu State established Dong'an County to strengthen management. It has jurisdiction over the three counties of Nan'an, Jinjiang and Tong'an. The county seat is located in Fengzhou, Nan'an today, making Fengzhou the political, economic and cultural center of southern Fujian at that time. In 1980, a foundation made on June 6, the fifth year of Taikang, and a batch of buried pottery daily necessities were unearthed in Fengzhou. To this day, some daily necessities in rural areas in southern Fujian still retain the style of that time. The wisdom of the ancient Quanzhou people was extraordinary. As early as a thousand years ago, they were able to use tung oil and nails to build the most advanced type of ship in the world: the Quanzhou ship among the lucky ships.

In 1925, an ancient ship from the Song Dynasty was exported from the back ports of Quanzhou Bay. Its remaining length was 24.2 meters and its width was 9.15 meters. After restoration, its length could reach 36 meters and its width With a length of 11 meters and a load capacity of more than 200 tons, it was a medium-sized cargo ship built in Quanzhou at that time. From its cross-sectional model, we can find that it has thirteen watertight compartments. The use of watertight compartments in China began in the Tang Dynasty, more than 1,100 years earlier than in Europe. In addition, we can also find from this ship model that its anchor is made of wooden claws and stone anchors. In the past hundred years, many anchor stones similar to those of Quanzhou ships have been found in Japan, Korea and other places, which is enough to prove the footprints of ancient Quanzhou ships. In recent years, we have discovered several shipwrecks near the harbor.

Among them, a Song Dynasty ship with a carrying capacity of about 100 tons was discovered in Fashi Bay in 1980. There was a fragment of a sail, which is the only precious cultural relic in China. Miaofan is a type of sail used by ancient Quanzhou ships. Before the Southern Song Dynasty, before cotton planting and textiles were widely promoted, only official ships could afford expensive silk fabrics for sails. Smart Quanzhou people made sails from natural plant materials such as bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves, which were still widely used until the Ming Dynasty.