The South China Sea found a Shipwreck in the Song Dynasty, and the salvage fee cost 300 million yuan, experts: fished out 140,000 cultural relics
Maritime Silk Road, is China's ancient trade with other countries and culture often come to the sea passage, china's economy, politics, culture, history have a certain impact, China and many countries through this channel frequent maritime trade, but have to mention that there are many uncertainties in the sea navigation, itself there are great risks, so the Maritime Silk Road in the long river of history is also shipwrecked countless, and with the development of society, modern technology continues to progress, more and more ancient shipwrecks have been salvaged, The salvage of some ancient shipwrecks also requires huge salvage fees, and the ancient shipwrecks of the early Southern Song Dynasty are a typical example.
"Nanhai No. 1" is an ancient ship during the Southern Song Dynasty of China, which unfortunately sank to the bottom of the sea in the waters of Guangdong Province, China, during the process of transporting porcelain to the outside world on the Maritime Silk Road. In 1987 in the Yangjiang waters of Guangdong was found by the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau, 2 years later, the relevant state departments began to carry out underwater archaeological excavations of this ancient shipwreck, but because the technology of seabed archaeology at that time was not mature, and the difficulty coefficient was too high and lack of funds, so the underwater archaeological work was stillborn, until 2007, the national archaeological team began to officially carry out underwater archaeological work on this ancient shipwreck.
It is impossible to take care of everything at once, so the archaeological team took the method of carrying out the archaeological work in batches, 9 months later, the archaeological team excavated more than 4,000 pieces of ancient cultural relics such as gold, silver, copper, iron and porcelain, each of which is very precious and exquisite, and the price is quite high, it is obvious that this is actually only part of the cultural relics on this ancient shipwreck, and the underwater archaeological work of archaeologists still has a long way to go. This road is indeed a bit far, more than ten years later, the salvage work of this ancient shipwreck is still continuing, and the salvage and excavation costs of this decade are extremely huge, spending more than 300 million yuan, which is really a sky-high price.
Many people have questioned: the salvage cost alone has cost more than 300 million yuan, and the restoration cost after the salvage of cultural relics is not a bottomless pit, is this ship really worth salvaging? People who ask this kind of question are a bit ignorant, of course, it is worth it, from the economic level, only so far, 140,000 ancient cultural relics have been excavated from the "South China Sea No. 1", including a large number of porcelain, coins, silk and animal and plant corpses, etc., worth more than 100 billion, and according to the speculation of relevant experts, it may also reach 180,000 pieces; from a historical point of view, these cultural relics are important cultural heritage of our country, the priceless treasure of our country, and the business card of China, and these cultural relics are also of great academic research value. Provide material materials for future generations to study ancient history, economy and culture. So from these two aspects, salvaging this ancient shipwreck is undoubtedly a very correct decision.
Other ancient shipwrecks
The ancient shipwreck of Heze in the Yuan Dynasty was also excavated and salvaged in 2010. On September 17, 2010, a trade work in Heze City, the intersection of Zhonghua Road and Heping Road in the process of intense construction, found an ancient wooden ship, after expert inspection and identification, speculated that this is an ancient ship of the Yuan Dynasty, and then after more than two months of rescue excavation, unearthed a total of more than 110 cultural relics, mainly jade, bronze, gemstones, porcelain, iron, etc., including three very precious Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain, and the blue and white dragon pattern plum vase is "worth more than 100 million".
There are many examples of the salvage of ancient shipwrecks, and this also shows very well that China's comprehensive national strength has been continuously improved, the national strength has gradually increased, and it is constantly moving closer to a powerful country with comprehensive development in politics, economy, ideology and culture, and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is just around the corner.