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Huaguangjiao One
Huaguangjiao One (Simplified: 华光礁一号) is a Chinese merchant ship, built during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), that sank off the coast of Xinsha Islands, southeast of Guangdong province, in the South China Sea. The ship's name translates as "Magnificent China Reef Wreck #1". It was discovered in 1996 and is currently the oldest hull that China has discovered in the open seas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Undersea Excavation Reveals Bounteous Booty )〕
==Archeological findings==
In 1996, a group of Chinese fishermen discovered a , wide ship about three meters below the surface near the Huaguang Reef. The wreckage covered 180 square meters meaning that the ship would have had an estimated displacement capacity of 60 tons and 11 cabins.〔
On 15 March 2007, an archeological salvaging operation was organized by the National Museum of China and the Hainan Provincial Administration of Culture, Radio & Television, Publishing and Sport, and the excavation of the shipwreck site at Huaguang Reef initiated. This operation not only helped the archaeologists involved in the survey locate nearly 10 other shipwrecks in the surrounding area,〔 but also helped establish the first time that China conducted high-seas excavation work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Milestone in China's Archaeology: Discovery of Ancient Ceramics off Xisha Islands )〕
According to Dr. Zhang Wei, director of the China's Underwater Research Center with the National Museum at the time of the discovery, even though the wreck had been robbed many times and severely damaged by looters, the retrieval of the more than 10,000 pieces of antique pottery and porcelain, which seems to have mainly come from the Fujian and Guangdong kilns,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Chronology of Asian maritime history )〕 most certainly provide a very important piece of information and undeniable evidence of an already well established maritime trade route, known as the "Marine Silk Road", between China and the rest of the world during the Song and Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chinese Archeologists Discover Ancient Ceramics off Xisha Islands )〕
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