Brief introduction of Nanhai No.1 shipwreck

The sinking of Nanhai No.1 occurred in the Southern Song Dynasty. A brief introduction is as follows:

"Nanhai No.1" is an ancient wooden shipwreck that set out from Quanzhou, Fujian Province in the early Southern Song Dynasty and sank while transporting porcelain on the Maritime Silk Road. The sinking place is located in Guangdong Province, China. From the discovery of 1987 to the salvage of the whole ship, it was moved to the Maritime Silk Road Museum in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, and successively produced180,000 pieces of cultural relics.

Nanhai No.1 is the oldest, largest and best-preserved ocean-going merchant ship among the sunken ships found in the world so far. It will provide extremely rare physical materials for restoring the history of the Maritime Silk Road and ceramics, and even obtain information that literature and land archaeology cannot provide. Later, it was found that there were 60,000 to 80,000 cultural relics on board, many of which were priceless national treasures.

Cultural relics salvaged by Nanhai No.1

"Nanhai No.1" is described as "covered in golden armor", and experts estimate that the ancient ship's cultural relics are priceless. There are 7000 pieces of copper coins1on board, including gold bracelets, bands, rings 15 1 set and silverware 124 sets. Of course, the most is porcelain, and more than 3000 pieces have been excavated/kloc-0.

On the "Nanhai No.1" shipwreck, plant archaeologists excavated and identified the earliest 3 1 pepper remains unearthed in China. The capsicum remains found on Nanhai No.1 show that China people used it to cook food in the middle and early 3rd century at the latest.

Due to the isolation of oxygen from seawater and sediments, Nanhai No.1 has also preserved very rich plant remains, including plums, betel nuts, olives, lychees, grapes and Castanea henryi. Archaeologists used advanced technology to find and extract 3 105 kinds of plant seeds and fruits from the deck, which are divided into fruits, nuts, melons, grains and spices, most of which are edible.