What kind of wood was used for shipbuilding in ancient times?

Ancient Chinese shipbuilding with many types of wood, generally are locally sourced, the best of the best. And according to the different characteristics and properties of wood used in different parts of the ship bai hublot.

The types of wood often used are: fir, pine, cypress, teak, elm, redwood, camphor, nanmu, tulip tree, catalpa, chinkapin, hinoki and so on.

Ming Dynasty heyday. This period is not only the number of shipbuilding, large scale, but also many types of ships, transportation ships have a large and small yellow boat, fast boat, Jianghan class boat, eight yagura boat, pendulum boat; sea boat has a cover the ocean boat, seal boat, etc.; warships sentinel ship, open wave boat, chain boat, dafu boat, and so on.

Expanded Information:

In the early stage of primitive society, the primitive forefathers made their living by fishing, hunting and catching, and their activities were only limited to the area close to the water, and they were in urgent need of a tool to go Hunting for more food and against the danger of flooding, later, the ancients viewed the fallen leaves because they thought the boat, see the hollow wood floating and know for the boat, created the earliest water transportation - rafts, also known as rafters, listen.

Subsequent to the woven wood for the raft, there are router wood for the boat, the river wood for oars. By the Shang Dynasty, the ancients were no longer limited by the shape and size of the wood, but could be processed according to the material, so that the plank boat appeared.

The compass began to be used in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and both river boats and sailing boats had a certain system.