Shanghai Maritime Museum🇨🇳

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Shanghai, a historic port city, is home to the China Maritime Museum. Opened in 2010, the museum boasts 21,000 square meters of indoor exhibition space, divided into exhibition halls dedicated to maritime history, ships, and navigation and ports. It houses a collection of over 20,000 items and sets, and also includes a branch, the Shanghai Submarine Exhibition Hall. Wandering through the museum, one feels the profound sense of maritime dominance, a tradition that dates back to ancient China.

Ancient Chinese maritime history is profound.

Entering the hall, a replica of a Fuzhou ship stands in the center, 31 meters long, 8.2 meters wide, and four or five stories high. Handcrafted using Ming Dynasty shipbuilding techniques, this ship is fully operational.

The Fuzhou ship is a renowned type of ancient Chinese seafaring vessel, a general term for the pointed-bottomed vessels built along the Fujian and Zhejiang coasts. Since ancient times, the character of the people of the southeastern coastal areas has been deeply ingrained with the sea. Ancient records indicate that people in this area "used boats as vehicles and oars as horses," and some even "could not live even for a day without boats and oars." Fuzhou ships, with their sturdy structure, large capacity, deep draft, and good maneuverability, were suitable for long-distance ocean voyages.

Post by SHKI | Sep 28, 2025