Digging up a gateway to history
Porcelain produced in kilns in southern China and architectural components were found at the site of a recently unearthed city wall in Dongguan, Guangdong. CHINA DAILY An ancient walled city recently unearthed in Dongguan, Guangdong province, offers further proof that the metropolis, located at the mouth of the Pearl River, was an important coastal defense town and node on the ancient Maritime Silk Road during the Ming Dynasty. Cao also said that the scientific disclosure of urban defense remains provides a glimpse of their spatial pattern and of Ming Dynasty construction regulations, an important advancement in the study of the Ming and Qing coastal defense system, adding that it is also of great significance for studies of the architectural and social history of the period. Archaeological discoveries have confirmed the importance of Dongguan as the "first gateway to Guangdong province" in the South China Sea coastal defense system during the Ming Dynasty, and its illustration of the construction and urban development of Dongguan possesses significant historical, cultural and academic value.
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