In the long river of human history, the maritime civilization of Westerners is relatively unique and dazzling, Columbus discovered the New World, Magellan's voyage around the world, etc., everywhere in the world was first "controlled" by them, so everyone had to worship and envy them, with a pioneering spirit, adventurous spirit of navigation culture.
Columbus discovered the New World, and the whole world envied the West
Nautical civilization and adventurous spirit
Objectively and fairly speaking, the maritime civilization of Westerners is still relatively long, because the European and American civilization actually originated from the ancient Greek civilization and the ancient Roman civilization, they are located on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, so it is more scientific to find the "figure" of this navigational civilization from the ancient Greek civilization, and the content of the famous literary masterpiece "Homer's Epic" in ancient Greece is about the navigation civilization, and the two volumes of Homer's epic, "Iliad" and "Orthay", have a lot of seafaring civilization storylines.
The ancient Greek "Homeric Epic" has long recorded the navigation civilization
So do Chinese who like to cultivate land and buy houses have a maritime civilization? The answer is yes, in this branch of Chinese culture of Southern Fujian culture.
There is a historical event in China that Zheng He went to the West, starting from Fuzhou Taiping Port (today's Fuzhou Changle District area), which is one of the important places belonging to the culture of southern Fujian, and the pioneering spirit and adventurous spirit of the fleet led by Zheng He are comparable to Western navigation civilization, after all, it has reached distant areas such as East Africa and the Red Sea, and it was a technologically advanced navigation civilization at that time.
The history of Zheng He's voyage to the West shows the brilliance of China's maritime civilization
If you go back a long time, you can trace it back to the Warring States period of the era of the struggle for hegemony, because the State of Wu and the State of Yue are located in the southern region of China's developed water system, the importance of maritime warfare is highlighted, so it began to build a large number of ships in the coastal area, because of the fear that the shipbuilding base was destroyed by the military forces in the north, so the south was relative to the remote Fujian Zhejiang coastal area, as the rear area, this area is the main birthplace of the later Southern Fujian culture.
During the Warring States period, the State of Yue began to use the area around southern Fujian as a large rear base for the water army
In the Later Three Kingdoms era of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Sun Quan divided the south, and also faced the problem of military pressure from the north, and has been building ships in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places to prepare for war, so it seems that it is not much later than the Western navigation civilization.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the southern Fujian region was a very developed base for the shipbuilding industry of the State of Wu
There is a famous Mazu culture in the Minnan culture, which is a marine culture recognized by everyone! Mazu in the Chinese civilization, is a professional god who protects navigation, often known as the "god of navigation" or "escort goddess", and the ancient Greek sea god Poseidon in the West, there is really a comparison, Mazu appears as a benevolent and kind beauty image, but Poseidon sea god is an aggressive and aggressive, ambitious rugged fisherman image, manifested in the history of Eastern and Western navigation, it seems that there is really a bit of civilization mapping.
Mazu, the god of the sea in the East, and Poseidon, in the west
There is also the problem of getting rich by seafaring, is there a culture in which Westerners want to achieve their goal of getting rich through maritime trade (including, of course, aggression) in China? Some, the typical representative is the southern Fujian culture, Minnan people are mainly distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, these places have appeared a lot of "overseas Chinese town", living abroad to successfully start a business to get rich businessmen are everywhere, numerous, Southeast Asia and even the Indian Ocean, east Africa, there are many Minnan people through the sea and arrived, and settled down, very similar to the colonial expansion of Western navigation civilization, but the way of Minnan people is much more civilized than Westerners.
Both the East and the West have the consciousness of connecting and navigating to get rich, and the culture of southern Fujian is more civilized?
Navigation civilization, like agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization, is one of the main branches of world civilization, so I think that Minnan culture is a condensed version of Western maritime civilization, and Chinese should learn the relevant advantages of Minnan culture.
The maritime culture of southern Fujian is worth inheriting and developing
Do you all agree with me?