Study On The Porcelain In Min River Of Song And Yuan Dynasties

Maritime Silk Road was the sea lanes which carries out exchanges between the east and the west,and the road was built by the ancient people's using of monsoons and ocean currents,and also the traditional navigation technology.The Maritime Silk Road is the link for the civilization between east and western such as economic,culture,science and technology,religion and thought.It is generally believed that the Maritime Silk Road was formed during the Qin and Han dynasties and matured in the five dynasties of the Sui and Tang dynasties,which flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties and declined in the middle and late Qing dynasty.Fujian has been playing an extremely important role in the development history of Maritime Silk Road.And the port and wharf represented by Fuzhou port,Quanzhou port,Xiamen port and Zhangzhou port,the export porcelain kiln sites represented by Huai 'an kiln,Cizao kiln,Min-qingyi kiln,the ruins of the sunken ship represented by the Pingtan sunken ship of Fuzhou sea,the sunken ship of Nan-ri island in Putian sea,the sunken ship in Quanzhou water,and the sunken ship in Zhangzhou sea.And also,the thing related to the exporting we have kept until today,for example the beacon towers,sacrificial facilities,canal transportation facilities and sea defense facilities.All above these are provided evidence for the study of the Maritime Silk Road by archaeologists.Min River is the largest one in Fujian province which run into the sea with wide basin area covered almost half the area of Fujian.There are abundant kiln sites,tombs and city ruins founded in the Min River basin.And a large number of relics from the Song and Yuan dynasties were unearthed.Relative to the product of the kiln site,as the burial of consumption terminal and the relics unearthed in the site can be more intuitive,more aptly reflect people's aesthetic taste and choice tendency,therefore,this paper studies the tombs and unearthed porcelain of Min River valley in the Song and Yuan dynasties,using the methods of archaeology stratigraphy,typology and statistics to analyze this batch of data,by doing these hope to recover the porcelain circulation in the Min River basin during the Song and Yuan dynasties,and at the same time,the Fuzhou port of Min River is regarded the starting point,to discuss the marketing route of Min River basin represented by Fuzhou port in Song and Yuan dynasties.The main content of the article is divided into five chapters: The first chapter is an overview of the geographical features of Min River basin,to enumerate the discovery and research status of unearthed porcelain,and to expound the reasons and research methods of the thesis.The second chapter is the type of unearthed porcelain,which is divided into six categories: blue glaze,green white glaze,sauce glaze,black glaze,white glaze and other glaze colors,and then he division of type is carried out respectively.In the third chapter,the kiln mouth and stage of the unearthed porcelain are analyzed.According to the classification of the previous chapters,the unearthed porcelain was dividedinto four periods,and summed up the characteristics of the time of the combination of its artifacts.The fourth chapter discusses the related problems,combined with the previous analysis,comparing the shipwrecks to China,discussing the production and sales of porcelain in Min River basin,and discussing the rise and decline of Fuzhou port.Chapter five is the conclusion.