Friday, August 16, 2024
Studying Time: 2 minutes
Macao performed host to the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Launch from Greater Bay Area: Nanhai I Shipwreck and the Maritime Silk Road” on August 15. Co-organised by the Improvement Bureau (DEVB), the Nationwide Cultural Heritage Administration, and the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Tradition of the Macao Particular Administrative Area, the exhibition options artefacts from the Nanhai I shipwreck, an historic ocean-going service provider vessel, in addition to associated gadgets from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. The occasion highlights the pivotal position of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Larger Bay Space within the Maritime Silk Street’s historical past.
The opening ceremony was officiated by the Secretary for Improvement, Ms. Bernadette Linn; Deputy Director of Artwork Exhibitions China, Ms. Zhou Yu; President of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Ms. Cao Jin; and Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Authorities of the Macao Particular Administrative Area, Mr. Cheang Kai-meng.
Nanhai I used to be a service provider ship from the Southern Music dynasty, salvaged in 2007, and is taken into account probably the most full historic ocean-going service provider vessel ever found by archaeological excavation. The shipwreck yielded a exceptional assortment of artefacts, together with porcelain, bronzeware, ironware, gold, silverware, lacquerware, and woodenware. The distinctive portions, shapes, and craftsmanship of these things are unparalleled amongst archaeological finds from the Southern Music dynasty. Specialists consider that Nanhai I probably sank alongside the maritime route from Guangdong to the South China Sea within the tenth yr of the Chunxi reign (1183) of the Southern Music dynasty or shortly thereafter.
The exhibition options 255 gadgets, together with notable artefacts from Nanhai I, corresponding to a brown glazed jar with 4 lugs, stamped with the Chinese language characters “Chun Xi Shi Nian” (the tenth yr of the Chunxi reign) from the Nanhai kiln; a qingbai glazed foliated bowl with stamped plum blossom sample from the Jingdezhen kiln; a inexperienced glazed ogee-shaped foliated dish with incised lotus sample from the Longquan kiln; a necklace with a gold chain and rhinoceros horn-shaped cone ornaments; and a gem-set hole gold bracelet. Moreover, the exhibition showcases associated artefacts unearthed in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, together with the underside fragment of a qingbai glazed bowl with inked Chinese language characters “Gong Shi” (envoy) from the Hutian kiln of the Music dynasty, discovered on the web site of the Nanyue Kingdom Palace in Guangzhou; a yellowish-green glazed jar with six lugs and a dragon sample from the Music dynasty, found on the former Sacred Hill web site in Hong Kong; and a blue-and-white kendi with an elephant head-shaped spout from the Jingdezhen kiln of the Ming dynasty, discovered on the web site of St. Paul’s School in Macao.
The exhibition will probably be held on the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Kowloon Park, Haiphong Street, Tsim Sha Tsui, from August 16 to February 12 of subsequent yr. Admission is free.
