The "suspension case" of Zheng Hebao boat is expected to solve it?Quanzhou scholars have analyzed research: Zheng He's big treasure boat length is not more than 140 meters

■ Morning Post reporter Zhang Suping

Zheng He seven to the West, opened the prelude to the glorious and splendid era of human history. The scale of Zheng He's large treasure boat was a "suspension" in the academic community at home and abroad. A few days ago, Zhao Zhigang, an expert in Zheng He's research in China, proposed the "new solution": the "one bang" recorded in "History of the Ming Dynasty · Zheng He" is not the 3.33 meters we are familiar with, but about 1.7 meters. 70 meters. "Coincidentally. In 2018, Hu Xiaowei, a deputy research librarian of the Quanzhou Sea Trading Museum, published a paper on the national journal "Research on History of Sea Dutch". By analyzing the "bang" unit used by the Quanzhou West Tower, it is necessary to look at Zheng He from a new perspective to Zheng He from a new perspective. The "bang" unit of the cost of the treasure boat, he adopted a comparative research method, thinking that the "one bang" is about 1.6 meters. Based on this conversion, Captain Zheng Hebao "forty -fourth" is 70.4 meters, and the wide "eighteen bang" is 28.8 meters to 28.8 meters. Essence Is Zheng He's "suspended case", is it expected to be solved here?

Two Thousand ingredients Ship Model

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Treasure boat -scale debate continues

Domestic and foreign academic circles are divided into three factions

On July 11, 1405, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Xi awarded the book, let Zheng He lead the fleet to the west, and the prelude to the big navigation opened. According to records, from 1405 to 1433, Zheng He seven "Western", and the route passed through the Indian Ocean from the Western Pacific Ocean, passing more than 30 countries and regions. Called feats in the history of world sailing navigation.

Zheng He's significance in the history of navigation is beyond the doubt, but the scale of Zheng Hebao boats has been arguing in the historian and shipbuilding communities at home and abroad. According to the "History of Ming History · Zheng He": "Create a large ship, fix forty -four feet, and sixty -two in Guanghuan." Zhang's ship has sixty -two ships. If the measurement of today's measurement standards, Captain Zheng He is 146 meters and 59 meters wide, which is comparable to the size of the football field.

"Have such a giant wooden sailing boat have always been one of the central issues of Zheng He's research on Western Ocean." Hu Xiaowei, a deputy research librarian of the Cultural Expo of the Quanzhou Sea Trade Museum. In 1947, Mr. Guan Jinzhang questioned that the controversy caused by it was durable, and it was difficult to solve the lawsuit.

At present, there are three main views of the research results of Baipan: one is the maintenanceist, which believes the correctness of the historical records. It is inferred that the length of Zheng He's big treasure boat is more than 100 meters, but it is difficult to say about its wooden structure and craftsmanship; It is the questioning faction that believes that in the early Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to create a treasure boat with a length of more than 100 meters, but it is difficult to give it absolutely negative from the historical records; 2000 ingredients ", some think that the treasure boat is a" connection "(that is, a large ship with a number of ships) composed of four two thousand materials. Mowing

【Scholar Research】

Take Quanzhou West Tower as an example

Re -interpret the ancient metering unit

How big is Zheng He's big treasure boat? Inspired by the arguments of all parties, Hu Xiaowei believes that the key to the problem of treasure ship is the interpretation of the "bunch" of the measurement unit. With "How much meter is the ancient 'in ancient'?" In this question, he found that when analyzing the two towers of the east and west tower of Quanzhou, he found that "if it is commonly known, or to interpret the creation scale of the Ming and Qing dynasties to interpret It will be far from the actual scale of the stone tower. "

Why is this conclusion? Hu Xiaowei introduced in his thesis "Zheng Hebao Boat Standard New Exam -Talking from the Standards of East and West Tower of Quanzhou", historical records recorded 19.35 feet high in the east tower, 17.8 feet of Xita high, and actually measured the Tonggi East Tower 48.27 meters, 45.06 meters of Xita Tower, 45.06 meters. It can be counted as: the East Tower is about 2.49 meters, and the 1 feet of the west tower is equal to 2.53 meters. In summary, the unit's "bang" used by the two two tower of Quanzhou, about 2.50 meters, is equal to 2.50 meters, which is basically consistent with the astronomical ruler (1 foot = 24.5 cm) used by Song, Yuan, and Ming.

Hu Xiaowei said, but it is usually known in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty, and the daily ruler of the Qing Dynasty (built a ruler), that is, 1 feet of Songs = 3.12 meters, 1 feet of Ming Dynasty = 3.20 meters, and the Qing 1 feet = 3.20 meters. The interpretation of the creation scale of the Song or the Ming and Qing dynasties will be far from the actual scale. In the same reason, the scale of Zheng Hebao boat is interpreted by the Ming Dynasty's creation scale, which may seem reasonable and may cause misunderstandings. "

In addition, Hu Xiaowei compared the scale of Zheng Hebao and the Dutch Mujiu Ship and Hongyi Cannon in the Ming Wanli, to derive the "bang" unit of the three units of the three. According to this conversion, Zheng He's big treasure boat has a "forty -four feet" of 70.4 meters and a wide "eighteen feet" of 28.8 meters. "This scale is more credible." Hu Xiaowei said that Zheng Hebao was 70.4 meters and 28.8 meters wide. It was the largest sea ship in the world 600 years ago, which is more volume than the largest "Book of Book" in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Large (20 feet long, six feet wide), its length and width were 1.5 times and more than three times that of the Dutch wood sailing boats in the Ming Dynasty during the Ming Wanli period (Xin Yuanou, an expert in Chinese ship history, studied, East India, the Netherlands The company comes to the East's Ocean Sea Marine to a large "Pipisus" about 45 meters long). In addition, Mr. Yang Yan, a Chinese Shipbuilding Expert and Senior Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that looking at the history of the world's shipbuilding, the length of the ancient wooden sailing boat is not more than 100 meters, and the displacement does not exceed 4,000 tons; 300 feet (91.4 meters), if this size exceeds this size, the wooden boat is unsafe in structure. 【Side proof】

Ruddy ruddy unearthed at the site of Nanjing Shipyard

The length of the treasure boat is "right"

When studying the standards of Zheng Hebao Boat and the Dutch Mujiu Ship and Hongyi Cannon in the Ming Wanli, Hu Xiaowei derived the calculation of the three -person measured unit. One scale. "This scholar is to be considered in depth of the history of the history, but it is certain that there is a quantitative word that represents depth or length from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. One entrustment is the length of the adults' straight hands, which is about 1.6 meters. "Hu Xiaowei said.

Interestingly, according to the Yangtze Evening News, Zhao Zhigang, a director of the Jiangsu International Cultural Exchange Center and an expert in Zhenghe Research Association of Jiangsu Province, when he read the book "The Misunderstanding Far" (Chen Cunren), there was this in the book. A record: "Once, I bought a book published by Nanyang, called" Wen Xin Yao Worm ", called carving insects, which means the meaning of carving insects. In fact, it is quite meaningful. The book records that the ruler of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to half of the world. "

When Zhao Zhigang saw this sentence, "I only felt a word of dreaming in one language, and Maose was open and suddenly cheerful." He also believed that the size of the large Zheng Hebao boat argued for so many years. The question, "The" One -Bang "recorded in" History of the Ming Dynasty · Zheng He "is not about 3.33 meters, but about 1.7 meters!"

According to this conversion, the length of Zheng He's large treasure boat is about 70 meters, which is also discovered on the site of Nanjing Baodao Shipyard (founded in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which specializes in the large -scale official -run shipbuilding base built by Zhenghe to the west. Most of the rudder rods with a length of about 10 meters and 11 meters are "paired".

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