Research On Fujian Navy In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Fujian, Located in the south-east coastal area of China, has a long and indented coastline, which reaches 3051 kilometers and has sea area of 136,000 square kilometers. The Ming and Qing Dynasties was not only a period of turbulence for the south-east coastal area, and also a transitional time for Chinese Military history. To command the coastal defense, Chinese Navy had kept developing and evolving.They bear the responsibility for maintaining the peace of territorial seas. They not only had fought against Japanese pirates during the Ming Dynasty and western colonists during the Late Ming Dynasty, but also had indispensable contribution to the unification of Taiwan and so on.They played a positive role in.The Fujian Navy was the one who came through many sea battles and had a relative strong fighting power at that time. As gaining experience in sea fights and sharing information with other coastal Navy, Fujian Navy enhanced its level. During the Late Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fujian Navy was on the wane and left some lessons for people to learn. Despite of their wane, the contribution from Fujian Navy was significant and which should not be negative. It represents a most developed Navy among the old Navy during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and also an Navy grew up in Fujian which was a initial stage of neoteric of Navy.So, Fujian Navy is a connecting link between the preceding and the following. This paper is going to analyze the development of Fujian Navy and stage changes by looking into the strategies they used to solve the coastal crisis. To learn a lesson from this history, it can help to provide historical references for our modern Navy.