Quanzhou Port Of Overseas Trade Research Review In Song Yuan Ming Dynasty

In the1920s, scholars begin studied the port of Quanzhou. In the1970s, with the development of underwater Archaeology, the port of Quanzhou had breakthrough in research. Now, the research of quanzhou port is rather rich, so we summarize the research to find out the new research fields.There are three part in this article, including the history of Quanzhou port, the way of trade, businessman and overseas Chinese.For the first topic, including the cause of the rise and fall of Quanzhou’s port, the overseas sales of the goods。 As we known, the quanzhou port is no agreement on the cause of rise and decline, but more and more scholars pay attention to the international trade environment on the impact of the port of quanzhou. So the scholars realize that it is necessary to put the Quanzhou port in the Indian Ocean trade network. That is Quanzhou is the part of the Indian Ocean trade network.As for the second topic, we pay attention to the vessel trade and tributary trade, the relationship between Vessel trade and finance is research focus. But most researches about this theme are pay attention on the relationship between vessel trade and country, ignore the influence of local public finance.The third topic is about merchant and the trade routes including domestic and foreign, including quanzhou local businessman, verseas businessman, overseas Chinese, etc. For the local businessman, scholars emphasize the Song and Ming dynasty’s local businessman trade. On the contrary, for the local businessman, scholars realize the Yuan dynasty is critical period. Thanks to the development of archaeology technology, the overseas trade routes of Quanzhou port become clear, howere, how to set up the connection of trade routes and port trade is a question.By analyzing the previous research, I think that the port of quanzhou research has a long way to go, some researches wait for new datas, but some of the topics just need to change the study way. For example, the Quanzhou ports have many ports,we usually called the "three bay twelve por", but many scholars regard Quanzhou port as HouZhu port,so they can not find the development of the city and the port, and even the relationship between port and port, but there is a key question we should consider. What’s more,the difference between Quanzhou port and Guanzhou port, Mingzhou port? What is the network between Quanzhou port with its economic hinterland? All these problems need further discussion.usually called the "three bay twelve por", but many scholars regard Quanzhou port as HouZhu port,so they can not find the development of the city and the port, and even the relationship between port and port, but there is a key question we should consider. What’s more,the difference between Quanzhou port and Guanzhou port, Mingzhou port? What is the network between Quanzhou port with its economic hinterland? All these problems need further discussion.