Zheng He According to the biography, there were 63 treasure ships of Zheng He, with a maximum length of 44 feet and a width of 18 feet. It was the largest sea ship in the world at that time, equivalent to the current length of 151.18 meters and the width of 61.6 meters. The ship has four layers, the nine masts on the ship can hang 12 sails, the anchor weighs thousands of kilograms, and it takes 200 people to set sail.
Zheng He's long journey to the West has left many unsolved mysteries for the younger generation. Does the legendary large treasure ship exist? If it exists, how big is it? According to historical records, in the fleet of Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean , the largest treasure ship was 44 feet long, 18 feet wide, and had a load of 800 tons. It takes two or three hundred people to pull its iron rudder. According to today's measurements, the treasure ship is nearly 138 meters long and 56 meters wide.
Scholars believe that such a huge foggy sailboat could not have appeared in the Ming Dynasty in China. In addition, some experts believe that the Fengtian Hall, the main hall of Zhu Di's administrative office in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, was the largest wooden structure entity at that time, and its size was only 63.96 meters wide, 37.02 meters deep, and 35.05 meters high. area far exceeds it. From the point of view of feudal patriarchal etiquette, Zheng He, a eunuch, took it a bit arrogant.
In fact, the construction methods of ancient Chinese palaces are strictly hierarchical, while ships are regarded as mobile cities on the sea and are a kind of military facilities, and the two are not comparable. For this reason, Zheng Ming, the former Minister of Naval Equipment and Technology and Chairman of the Beijing Zheng He Western Association, believes that large treasure ships exist, but they have not gone to sea. He believes that the big treasure ship is not a practical ship, and it should not be part of the team.So what is the significance of the existence of a large treasure ship? He speculates that the large treasure ship will not be used by anyone, but it is very likely to be used by the emperor. So how big is the big treasure ship? Academics still question the Dabao ship at 44 feet long and 18 feet wide, and some scholars believe that Zheng He's treasure ship has an incongruent aspect ratio, 44 feet long and 18 feet wide, with an aspect ratio of about 2.4666 to 1, which is just the ratio of a square box .
Existing Chinese and foreign ships are not as thick as the waist, which also makes people doubt the shape of the treasure ship. According to the historical data "Southern Ship's Record Three Treasures Eunuch Goes to the Western Ocean" and the physical objects unearthed in Quanzhou and other places, the length-width ratio of the ancient Chinese naval ships is between 2.5 and 2.8, and most of them belong to the wide and short type. How big is it? It also depends on physical research. The Ming Dynasty Treasure Shipyard Site in Zhongbao Village, Nanjing is the only site of the Ming Dynasty official shipbuilding base in China. In 1957, villagers discovered a rudder stock with a length of 11.07 meters at the site of the Nanjing Treasure Shipyard. According to expert research, the two-meter-long horned shrub requires five or six people to operate together, and can stir up an iron anchor weighing about 500 kilograms.
From 2003 to 2004, the museum preserves the archaeological excavation of the sixth pond of the Ming Dynasty treasure shipyard site, and found two wooden rudder stocks with lengths of 10.1 meters and 11 meters, but these are not enough to accurately calculate the shipyard ships The exact scale of the system can only confirm the enormous scale of Ming ships.
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