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The Quanzhou Maritime Museum is an ideal place to learn about the harbor city's rich history. Designed to resemble a sailing ship, the museum, one of very few maritime-themed museums in the country, offers free entry and a free tour guide.
Quanzhou Maritime Museum - Replicas of Ancient Boats
The museum boasts a number of replicas of ancient boats, ranging from brigs and schooners to battleships from different dynasties. Among them is a medium-sized boat featuring a host of cabins, built in the Song Dynasty by local Quanzhou shipbuilders.
It is said to be one of the most popular vessels used for trade at that time. Documents reveal that these boats, made in Quanzhou, carried Chinese silk, jade and porcelain to eastern Africa and the Mediterranean, and they returned with foreigners intent on doing business or preaching religion in China.
Quanzhou Maritime Museum - Perform of Nanyin Music
Local performers entertain visitors with free performances of Nanyin music, a 1,000-year-old traditional opera sung in southern Fujian dialect. A hall displaying religious steles carved to pay tribute to the deceased foreign merchants and missionaries reflects Quanzhou's status as a "World Museum of Religions", as named by UNESCO.
Quanzhou Maritime Museum - Cultural Fusion
One can find a delicate cultural fusion in the collection, which contains 138 Islamic pieces, 133 Hindu, 44 Christian and one Manichean. While some gravestones mix Chinese, Persian and Arabic language, several Christian tombstones bear interesting images of angels resembling Apsaras - female cloud and water spirits from Buddhist mythology.
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