The Maritime Silk Road is the ancient period of the ancients in foreign transportation and trade and cultural exchanges of the sea passage, the ancients of the mainland in the Shang Zhou period came up with the idea of maritime trade, and later this idea began to develop in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, after a hundred years of time in the Qin and Han period formally formed, has been passed down to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, for the mainland modern society of the Maritime Silk Road made a solid foundation. In order to be able to communicate with neighboring countries, the ancients on the mainland divided the Maritime Silk Road into two routes, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, of which the South China Sea was mainly the center.
The development of these maritime routes has witnessed the prosperity and prosperity of the ancient period of the mainland, but it has also witnessed the sinking of many ships here, such as in 1752, a merchant ship named "Nanjing" accidentally hit a reef on the way from Chinese history to Amterdan in the Netherlands, causing all the people and materials to be sunk. "It is said that gold has a price, porcelain is priceless" All the precious porcelain in these cargo ships is precious porcelain shipped out of China. After thousands of years of maritime development here sunk ships can be said to be countless, and later there is an archaeologist named "Yu Weichao" in China, according to historical records, there are more than 2,000 Chinese ships sunk in the South China Sea, and these sunken ships do not include ships from overseas countries, and the number is unimaginable.
With the improvement of the value of historical relics, these sunken cultural relics on the seabed attracted the attention of many people, in the 1980s, many overseas treasure thieves because they wanted to fish for cultural relics, so they carried out a series of explorations in the South China Sea on the mainland, did not expect that these thieves finally found sunken ships on the seabed, and frantically salvaged cultural relics on the seabed. The most arrogant of these thieves was the British explorer Mike Hatcher. Mike Hatcher, orphaned since childhood and rarely seen money, was particularly obsessed with gold, silver and treasure, and grew up with his own momentum to set up a salvage company in Australia. Later, in a fortuitous situation, he saw the location of the shipwreck of China's Maritime Silk Road, so in order to get rich, he took people to the South China Sea to search.
In the field of cultural relics, there is such a law that "things are scarce is precious", and in order to raise the price of these porcelains, Mike Hatcher actually destroyed most of the precious porcelain or intended to leave only 239,000 pieces of porcelain, the degree of madness that no one can match. Later, Mike Hatcher made countless profits from these salvaged porcelains, becoming the best, most successful and richest treasure hunter in the overseas heritage industry. But the more successful he became, the more it foreshadowed how heavy China's losses would be, and Mike Hatcher's actions deeply stung the Chinese archaeological community, becoming the public enemy of world archaeology and the nemesis of China's cultural relics industry. This historical event is a disgrace that all Chinese should remember. When a country is not strong enough, even a small rich person can insult at will, and such an insult is an insult and a lesson.
But now, as the mainland begins to grow stronger, both economic, military and diplomatic development has been well developed, and many overseas countries have taken the initiative to give away a lot of cultural relics that have been lost overseas in order to make friends with China. There are also some Chinese bought back a court porcelain bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty for 294.3 million Hong Kong dollars at auctions abroad, setting a new world auction record for Chinese porcelain. There are only 87 pieces of these porcelain bowls in the world, and each one is a genuine piece, which is a national treasure that cannot be compared with how much money in the mainland.