The mysterious figure of Zheng He's treasure ship. According to the "History of Ming" and "Biography of Zheng He", there were 63 treasure ships that Zheng He went to the West, of which the largest one was 44 feet long, 4 feet wide and 18 feet wide. At that time, it was the largest sea vessel in the world, 151.18 meters long and 61.6 meters wide. The ship has four floors, and 12 kinds of wool can be suspended on the nine circumferences of the ship, weighing several kilograms. It takes 200 people to make a watch and sail to the West Sea. If yes, how big. According to historical records, the largest treasure ship in Zheng He's fleet was 44 feet, 4 feet wide, 18 feet wide, and had a load of 800 tons. Its iron stakes require two to three hundred people to move
According to today's measurement methods, the ship is nearly 138 meters wide and 56 meters wide. Some scholars believe that such a huge wooden sailing ship could not have appeared during the Ming Dynasty in China. In addition, experts believe that during the Ning Yongle years, Judy's main administrative office hall. Fengtian Temple is the largest timber-framed entity in China. Its scale is only 63.96 meters wide, 37.20 meters deep and 35.05 meters high. However, the size of large treasure ships only exceeds the area of shipbuilding. From the perspective of the feudal patriarchal system, Zheng He appeared to be a suspicious eunuch. In fact, the rule of law in ancient Chinese palace construction had strict hierarchical boundaries, and entering ships was seen as a city of sea movement
It belongs to a kind of military facility, and the two are not comparable. To this end, I proved to Li, director of the Naval Equipment Technology Department and director of the Beijing Zheng he Expeditionary Research Association, that there are large treasure ships, but I have not proved that large treasure ships are not practical ships and should not be members of the expeditionary fleet. So what is the significance of the existence of large treasure ships? He speculated that the large treasure ship had not been used at all, but it was likely to have been used for the emperor's royal purposes. So how big is this large treasure ship? Academics still question the size of the 44-foot, 4-foot and 18-block-wide treasure ship. Some scholars believe that Zheng He's captain's width ratio is 44 feet, 4 feet and 18 feet long
With an aspect ratio of about 2.4666:1, it is a treasure ship. It looks like a square river. The existing Chinese and foreign ships have never had such a thick waistline, which makes people doubt the shape of this treasure ship. According to difficult historical sources, records of the eunuch "Three Treasures" traveling westward, and hull food excavated in Quanzhou and other places, the length-to-width ratio of ancient Chinese warships was between 2.5 and 2.8, equivalent to the size of a wide and short chartered ship. It also depends on food research. The site of The Baozhongcun Shipyard of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing is the only official shipbuilding base of the Ming Dynasty in China. In 1957, some villagers excavated a pile of 11.07 meters long things at the site of the Nanjing Bao Shipyard
In 1965, a 2.21-metre-long shrub was salvaged from here. According to expert research, a 2-meter-long, one-foot-tall shrub requires 5 to 6 people to operate together and can lift an iron anchor weighing about 500 kilograms. From 2003 to 2004, during an archaeological excavation of the sixth hall of the Baochuanchang site in the Ming Dynasty, the museum found two wooden piers, 10.1 meters long and 11 meters long, respectively. However, these are not enough to accurately calculate the exact size of the shipyard's shipbuilding system, which only confirms the enormous size of the Ming dynasty ships recorded in historical data