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| Author:佚名 ArticleSource:http://www.zhuhai.gov.cn/ Hits: Update Time:2006-9-12 | |||||
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Wang noted in the book that there are two drawings of the earliest designs of China's sailboat. One is a figure carved on the bottom of a human statue of the Spring & Autumn Times and War Period excavated in Changde, Hunan Province, in 1956, and the other is a sailboat sketch of the Spring & Autumn Times and War Period discovered amid rock carvings in Nanshui of Gaolan Island, Zhuhai, in 1989. The design of the sailboat at Baojing Bay Rock Carvings depicted in the book is "warped ends and a three-storey cabin with a sail in the middle and the other in the stern". The time of the Baojing Bay Rock Carvings remained controversial when the book was published, and that is why the author credited the design to the Spring & Autumn Times and War Period and mentioned it in the same breath with the one discovered in Changde," Xu said. Since the Baojing Bay Rock Carvings have been designated a state-level protected site, which is acknowledged as relics of at least the Neolithic Period, the sailboat design turns out to be much earlier than the drawing found at Changde. Similar judgment was made by local scholars years ago in Zhuhai though. From the book titled Zhuhai Baojing Bay Rock Carvings Interpretation published in 2002, Li Shiyuan, author of the book and a researcher for the Zhuhai Museum, pointed out that the drawing of "Boat Carrying the King" in the centre of the eastern-wall carvings in the Treasure Cave of the Baojing Bay Rock Carvings should be the earliest design of a sailboat in China. Li also pointed out that the invention and applications of the sail reaffirmed the ability of the ancient people at the Baojing Bay thousands of years ago. "It might provide a key to the numerous doubts and suspicions about the Asian Pacific Rim Culture," he asserted. Experts agree that the boat-shaped design excavated with cultural relics of the Nanyue Kingdom came down in one continuous line with that discovered among the Baojing Bay Rock Carvings. China's famous rock carvings expert Chen Zhaofu once said that the Baojing Bay Rock Carvings are masterpieces of Chinese Marine Culture, which was characterized by courageous, adventurous and pioneering spirits. The boat, waves and figures in the rock carvings indicate the spirits and thus represent signs of the Marine Culture. It is not by chance that the earliest design of a sailboat is located in Zhuhai, said Xu. It provides proof for the argument that Zhuhai is one of the cradles of Chinese Marine Culture, he added. In fact, Xu himself is the owner of the "Jinhuaxing," an antique three-mast topsail schooner and the last remaining in China. He bought the sailing vessel in Fujian Province at the end of 2004 and moored it at Xiangzhou Fishing Port. Whether the sailboat design in the rock carvings or the real Jinhuaxing sailing vessel, they are rare treasures of Zhuhai and proof of the city's Marine Culture, he declared. Zhuhai is a typical representative of the early marine culture, a former crucial "corridor" of the Marine Silk Road, an important propeller of China's early modernization, and a trend-setter in modern China, concludes the 120-page report on the Appraisal of Zhuhai Historical & Cultural Resources. So far, five prehistoric dune remains have been unearthed in diverse places. One of the five, the Hou Shawan Ruins, is recommended by scholars to be representative of prehistoric civilization in the mouth of the Pearl River. Although 77 dune remains of 1000 to 4,000 BC have been found on nearly all city islands, additional relics await discovery, according to a researcher from the Zhuhai Museum. Zhuhai was along the route of the Marine Silk Road starting from the Hun Dynasty. Who knows how many cultural treasures might have been lost here? Fishermen excavated two batches of Tang Dynasty pottery and porcelain in the nearby waters around Zhuhai at the beginning of the 1980s, just a small part of a vast multitude of ancient treasures. The fierce battle between the Song and Yuan navies near Zhuhai must have left a large number of sunken ships wrecked at the bottom of sea. (ZD News)
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