It's a pity that I can't take out those sea-fishing porcelains from the bottom of the sea by myself, but I don't have that ability, so I can only forget about it.

Jack pointed out the reef area not far away, it was really unfortunate that the Taixing ran on the reef at the beginning, this area is a literal dead sea, full of traps that will swallow ships!

The Shark is also risky to enter this area, if it had dared to do so decades ago, it would have been killed!

But now......

“...... We have installed the most advanced submarine radar, and not only that, but the two small operation boats are also equipped with bathymetry, and when the large ship moves berths, the operation boat will explore the channel in advance.

Now we have detailed charts of the waters around here, and there will be no problems. ”

That's good, don't get confused and put yourself on it.

The sun is big outside, go to one of the containers, where there are some cultural relics from the water that were recovered from the previous exploration, all temporarily stored together.

The Great Shark has a powerful enough generator, and the air conditioning inside the container is running at full capacity.

There is also a sour lounge here, with metal benches and metal benches. There were baskets on the table, and on one side there were several large buckets on the ground, and in them were some objects that the crew had temporarily decided it was best not to leave the water.

Zhang Nan stepped forward and found that the basket was hollow out, and there were all kinds of things inside, basically all of which were metal.

"The sand pump also filters, and these parts are cleaned out of the filter, and there are a few items that the divers have found. ”

As he spoke, Jack handed Zhang Nan one of the small plastic baskets that was only 30 by 20 centimeters long: it was all jewelry.

One gold bracelet, five or six silver bracelets with a blackened color and a thick oxide layer and attachments, and several gold and silver rings, both male and female.

There are also fragments of broken jade bracelets, and there are strange appearances, under an oxidized and blackened silver plate, there are several strings of small fragments of silver.

Jack and the American guys didn't know what this thing was for, and Zhang Nan told him: "This is a gadget that the old Chinese lady sometimes hangs on the placket, and each small silver lock is connected to a small tool......

As he spoke, he pointed to the objects in his hand, "There are ear spoons, small tweezers, the other three are broken, some even have small silver combs, and silver toothpicks." ”

Needless to say, these were found near the wreck and were the personal belongings of the passengers.

There was also a blackened silver dollar in the basket, and Zhang Nan glanced at it a few times and identified it as a Spanish double column in 1796.

It is not surprising that this thing appeared on a Chinese galleon in 1822, it was originally a trade silver dollar, and it had been used along the coast of China for a long time.

There are a lot of copper coins in other baskets, Kangxi and Qianlong's, as for the statue, don't count on it, the sea has been soaked for 168 years, and it can be recognized as Zhang Nan's level.

Sand pump filtration, large and small, rusty knives, maybe wooden furniture, or a copper construction somewhere on the ship......

There were very few valuables to carry on the ship, most of the passengers on the ship were not wealthy, and the current had scattered the bodies of most of the victims, and few relics were found.

To treasure hunters, these are not valuable, but to archaeology, they are very important, and this part is also the item that Zhang Nan will bring back to China later.

That's all there was in the basket, and there was some porcelain in the bucket: the crew was careful not to let the porcelain dehydrate immediately.

Zhang Nan said to Jack and the two senior crew members who followed: "Take it out, don't soak it, otherwise you have to get the cargo hold below out and fill it with sea water as a bucket." ”

The boss said that whatever was it, a crew member planned to carry a bucket outside, but Zhang Nan organized it.

"I'll see. ”

As he spoke, he took something from the bucket he put down: it was a piece of white porcelain, and after taking it out, Guan Xingquan on the side asked, "What kiln?"

Zhang Nan tried his best not to let the sea water flow onto the container floor, and when he heard the question, he said: "It should be the white porcelain of the Dehua kiln in Fujian Province, this is a Mazu statue, and many ships in Fujian Province will worship this protective god."

Unfortunately, that time did not bring good luck to the Taixing. ”

After listening to this, Guan Xingquan added: "I thought it was Guanyin, but it turned out to be Mazu." ”

In the 80s, in the mainland, except for the coastal areas of Fujian Province, there were really not many people in other places who knew Mazu, and Guan Xingquan was not stunned to count him as having seen the light, which was inseparable from his hometown in a seaport city by the sea.

Not to mention anything else, Xiang Weirong still heard of the god Mazu for the first time when he drove to Fujian Province to pull goods in 84 or 5.

White porcelain, folk kiln, but fine workmanship and high quality: the Taixing was a huge sailing ship, and it was impossible for the owner to enshrine a poorly made statue of a protector deity.

Xiang Weirong asked if it would be cargo or the ship's enshrined protector deity.

“...... This is unlikely to be the cargo on this ship, otherwise it would be in the bottom hold, or it would be a big drawer, a big drawer, a big drawer.

But it is not certain that this is the statue of Mazu enshrined on the ship, because there is even more than one statue of Mazu on such a large ship, and those passengers who cross Chongyang may have carried the statue of the god to protect their safety at sea.

The workmanship is very good, and it can be regarded as a fine product in Dehua kiln!"

Zhang Nan was admiring, "...... Dehua can also be regarded as one of the three ancient porcelain capitals in China, and the central kiln site is in the hinterland of Daiyun Mountain in the central part of Fujian Province.

The porcelain clay resources there are very abundant, the water source is also sufficient, and the transportation is convenient in ancient times, so it is a very ideal place for firing porcelain.

THIS KIND OF WHITE PORCELAIN IS KNOWN IN EUROPE AS BLANC DE CHINE, AND THE FRENCH PRAISED DEHUA WHITE PORCELAIN IN OUR MING DYNASTY AS THE TOP GRADE OF CHINESE PORCELAIN.

This is already a fine product in Dehua white porcelain, this Mazu statue has a dense texture, and the appearance is also crystal like jade, and it is not glazed and moisturized, and it is also called ivory white, lard white, goose down white.

The beginning and end time of Dehua kiln porcelain is about 1,000 years, which can be summarized in 10 words, that is, it began in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and declined in the Qing Dynasty.

The earliest production should be celadon, but as early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, Dehua began to produce white porcelain at the same time as producing blue and white porcelain

However, Dehua white porcelain has become a representative variety in the national porcelain industry, which is after the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

A large part of the Qingbai porcelain produced in the Yuan Dynasty was sold overseas in large quantities through sea and land transportation, and the Dehua kiln should have become one of the more important porcelain kilns in China in the Yuan Dynasty.

Marco Polo once had a special introduction to the production and sales of Dehua porcelain in "Marco Polo's Travels": "In the place where this tributary and the main road fork, stands the city of Tingji (Dehua). There is nothing noteworthy here except for the manufacture of porcelain cups or porcelain bowls and plates. The process of making this porcelain is as follows: they dig a kind of soil from the ground, build it into a large pile, and let the wind, rain and sun blow it, and never turn it, which lasts for thirty or forty years. After this treatment, the texture of the clay becomes more pure and refined, suitable for the manufacture of the various vessels mentioned above, and then the porcelain is smeared with a glaze that is deemed to be of the right color, and then the porcelain is fired in a kiln or furnace. Therefore, people dug up the earth in order to store the materials for the manufacture of porcelain for their children and grandchildren, and a large amount of porcelain was sold in the city, and a single Venetian silver seal could buy eight porcelain cups".

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