The background of the excavation of the ancient shipwreck in Heze

On September 17, 2010, at the intersection of Zhonghua Road and Heping Road in Heze City, Shandong Province, China, an ancient wooden shipwreck was discovered at the construction site of the Ginza South International Trade Center project. Based on preliminary archaeological unearthed cultural relics, it was inferred that It may be a Chinese merchant ship from the Yuan Dynasty! Later, experts confirmed that it is more likely that it was a ship on which bureaucrats of the late Yuan Dynasty fled to Mobei (Yuan Dynasty) following the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. And it was probably a fleet at the time. This is the first time that an ancient shipwreck has been discovered in Heze. The discovery of this ancient ship will be of great help in inferring the topography, landforms, hydrology, etc. of Heze during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The construction site has now been suspended, and staff from the cultural relics management department are conducting archaeological excavations. The Municipal Public Security Bureau has dispatched police to guard the site 24 hours a day.

Police officers have set up a cordon to prevent citizens from getting too close and causing collapse. Staff from the cultural relics management department are cleaning up the scene. "The ancient ship is a wooden structure. Due to its age, the hull shows signs of fracture. It will take some time to clean it all up." A staff member of the cultural relics management department said that the entire ship is at least 10 meters tall. Most of the unearthed porcelain was fired in the Jingdezhen Kiln and Longquan Kiln in the Yuan Dynasty.