Exploring China: Fuzhou, southern gem and capital of Maritime Silk Road
China DailySantong Bridge at the historic Shangxiahang district in central Fuzhou. Situated on the banks of the Min River and right across from Taiwan on the East China Sea, Fuzhou is in many ways the embodiment of the southern Chinese capital. Fuzhou became even more culturally prosperous during the Song Dynasty, with the Hualin Temple, founded in 964, one of the oldest surviving wooden structures in China. During the Ming Dynasty Fuzhou became one of the starting points of the sea voyages of famous explorer Zheng He, who sailed from here to Southeast Asia and all the way to the coast of Africa, establishing maritime ties and marking it in many ways as one of “the original” starting points of the Belt and Road sea route. In the late Qing Dynasty, Fuzhou was made one of five treaty ports to openly trade with the west in 1842, and therefore became directly entangled into what is often called “China’s lost decade” of Western exploitation.
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Maritime Silk Road culinary culture wows media guests
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Maritime Silk Road culinary culture wows media guests
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