According to the news of the Global Network on January 27, last year, in South Korea, in the tomb bricks excavated from the tombs of King Wuning and Wang Cemetery in Gongzhou, Chungcheongnam-do, one of the sides was engraved with seven Chinese characters: The person who built this is also a Jianye person. Jianye is the ancient name of Nanjing. The Buyeo Institute of Cultural Relics of South Korea confirmed on the 27th that the tomb bricks were made by ancient Chinese craftsmen.
According to the report, the relevant bricks were excavated at the entrance of Tomb 29, and another inscription brick was found in Tomb 6 near Tomb 29, which was engraved with the words "Liang Guanwa As a Master" and "Liang Xuan as a Master". Scholars tend to interpret the word "Liang" above as the third dynasty of the Southern Dynasty of China, the Liang Dynasty. The Korean Institute said the inscriptions show that the bricks and tombs of Baekje Tombs were influenced by China. Lee Byung-ho, a professor at Gongju University of Education, believes that the words may have been inscribed Chinese. However, whether the builders only participated in the production of tomb bricks or participated in the construction of the entire stone tomb is still inconclusive.
In fact, China and South Korea have had exchanges since ancient times, so this is not the first time that South Korea has unearthed cultural relics related to China. In the 1970s, a chinese merchant ship sunken in the Waters off South Korea's Sin'an was found with a large collection of fine Chinese porcelain and coins.
It is understood that in July 1975, when a fisherman in South Korea was working, he accidentally salvaged six pieces of Chinese celadon porcelain, and he left one piece himself, and the rest was given to his neighbors. In 1976, the fisherman's younger brother came to see his brother and thought it was an antiquity, so he sent it to Korea
Reports from relevant departments. The South Korean government then organized ten large-scale expeditions, excavations and salvages in the eight years from 1976 to 1984, recovering more than 24,000 treasures from the shipwreck, including a large number of Chinese porcelain and 8 million coins weighing 28 tons. This archaeological event shocked the world.
It is worth mentioning that after the discovery of the Xin'an shipwreck, some people have ideas about the cultural relics on the wreck. In 1983, a man hired divers to loot 57 artifacts on board and hid them for 36 years, until 2019, when the man was nervous and planned to sell some of them to Japanese collectors, he was arrested by the South Korean police.
In addition, in November 2021, South Korea also unearthed a 5th-century celadon bowl in an ancient tomb group in Gayae-eup, Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, and Korean archaeologists marveled at it, calling it "the finest Chinese porcelain.". According to reports, the excavated celadon bowl has a lotus pattern, with a diameter of 16.3 cm and a height of 8.9 cm, which is about 1500 years old. South Korea believes that the celadon bowl may have been produced in the Hongzhou kiln.
Ancient Chinese shipwrecks have also been discovered in China's neighbor Japan, but unlike the Shinan shipwreck, the ship found near the Kanzaki Ruins of Eagle Island, a national historical site in Japan, is a Yuan Dynasty warship. It is reported that there are 20 pieces of white porcelain bowls in and around the hull. The Japanese investigation team deduced that the ship was 20 meters long and could reach 6 to 7 meters at its widest point.
The discovery and excavation of these cultural relics has undoubtedly provided a boost to the study of ancient Chinese history.