In the "History of Ming", there was a record of the ships used by Zheng He to go to the West, the most important of which was called the treasure ship, the largest ship was nearly 150 meters long, and could accommodate more than 1,000 people at most, which was a veritable giant at that time.
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However, no one has really seen what the treasure ship looks like, but in an archaeological process, the keel of a treasure ship was found, which shocked experts until 2010, a prototype of a suspected treasure ship was excavated on a construction site in Shandong Province.
When the cultural relics department learned the news, it immediately notified the local public security department, first blocked the construction site, and then explored the place where the clay pot was found, and at a depth of five meters above the ground, archaeologists found a boat.
The ship is more than 600 years old, has decayed in many places, is made of cypress and catalpa wood, and on the left side of the ship, a large hole was found, which experts believe may have run aground, and then the ship sank here.
The ship is about 21 meters long, looks very large, a total of nine boat rooms, looking at the behemoth in front of them, experts can't help but think of the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty, and even many archaeologists believe that this may be the original appearance of the treasure ship.
In this shipwreck, experts excavated more than 160 cultural relics, most of which are Ming Dynasty porcelain, some agate and jade, and pottery, the most precious of which is a blue and white porcelain vase.
This is a blue and white dragon pattern plum vase, belongs to the yuan qinghua, at that time in the archaeological site there were experts joked, if this piece of yuan blue and white porcelain can be purchased, he bid 200 million yuan on the spot, buy it down and collect, from this we can see that the preciousness of the yuan blue and white porcelain.