Reclaim
A Grand Tradition
Beijing University
students in traditional Han dress
playing sword during a gethering
in the campus
Treasure
Found Underwater
The ship was found by
accident in 1987, and since then it has been
robbed repeatedly with a large quantity of
relics believed already lost.
An ancient jar
recovered from a Song dynasty
merchant vessel sunken in the
South China Sea
The 55-day underwater
operation that was concluded on Tuesday has
excavated over 10,000 pieces of antique, most
being porcelain and pottery, with some
produced in renewed porcelain capital
Jindezhen (景德镇) in Jiangxi
Province.
During the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties, the Marine
Silk Road was established and the commercial
ships regularly set off from pot cities
Guangzhou (Guangdong Province), Quanzhou
(Fujian Province), Ningbo (Zhejiang Province)
and Yangzhou (Jiangsu Province) for the
countries in Persian, Red Sea and North
Africa.
