The Affect On The Arts And Crafts Of The Ming Dynasty From Zheng He Travelled Abroad

It is a very significant thing that Zheng He travel abroad the early 15 century .About 30 yeays or so,7 times,from 1405A.D. to 1433A.D. , Zheng He had led Chinese diplomotic corps to visit tens of the countries and districts of Southeast Asia,South Asia,West Asia and East Africa,and to have a material and cultural exchange with them across the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.It had a great affect on ceramatics,matalworking,furniture and texile industries that Zhenghe imported a lot of foreign handiworks,material,arts and crafts, and brought the foreign designers to China.Chinese blue and white looked so beautiful with smultum from West Asia that it was very defferent from others during the early Ming Dynasty.There were many new kinds of the shapes and patterns originating from Arabia about ceramatics,texile industries and so on being previous in China.And Chinese had been imitating foreign enamelware during the period of the King Xuande and were,soon after, able to make their own enamelware,also called "Jingtailan".The furnature of the Ming Dynasty had a dramatic progress with a great deal of hardwood from Southeast Asia. Songjiang of China had become a largest district of cotton texile industries by adopting advanced techniques from Southeast Asia and South Asia.