Fujian people have been good at shipbuilding and sailing since ancient times, right?

Fujian people have been good at shipbuilding and sailing since ancient times, right?

Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms consciously built Fujian as an important naval base for Wu. According to the documents, Sun Hao Jianheng first year (269 years), Sun Wu in the East Ye set the ship school captain, in charge of the criminal shipbuilding, the dock is located in today's Fuzhou Kaiyuan Temple East Direct Harbor.

Meanwhile, Dongwu also adopted a cantonment-like approach in many places along the coast, enlisting local craftsmen to establish larger-scale shipbuilding bases - ship tuns, such as in Wu Hang and Wen Ma. The number of sailing ships built by these shipyards was large, and there were many sailing ship shapes.

In this era, Fujian began to manufacture large-scale civilian marine vessels, which is the sea ship made by Wenma shiptun - "Wenma five will ship". "Five boards as a large ship", so the name "five meeting". These ships were made of exquisite materials, mostly made of "Yuzhang Nan" and other fine hardwoods, which were extremely strong. Wu's localization - shipbuilding and sailing is the nature of the Min people, the Min people and Wu's national policy needs coincide, promoting the rise of the local shipbuilding industry.

Development:

During the Song Dynasty, Fujian's shipbuilding and sailing technology took a qualitative leap forward, and the dominant position of "Fujian is the best for sea boats" was established in the Song Dynasty. The innovation of shipbuilding and navigation technology has enabled the Min people to expand their voyages to more distant waters. The expansion of routes and port management, so that Fujian's marine commerce has made great progress, sea merchants began as an independent group on the stage of history, and in the social life of the important role of irreplaceable.