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June 13th is China's fourth National Cultural Heritage Day. A batch of later Manchu Dynasty overseas trade goods are on display at the Shenyang Palace Museum.
The exhibition named Hai Mao Yi Zhen or Precious Relic Left by Maritime Trade has opened to the public on June 9th at the Shenyang Palace Museum, which served as the formal palace of the Qing Regime founded by the Manchu tribe.
The exhibits on display were all 18th and 19th centuries export artistic wares collected at China's southern most Guang Zhou Port. The unique sculpt and highly refined techniques of those craftworks revivified the glory and prosperity of Guang Zhou Port in the yesteryears and reflected the social vision of cultural communication between the east and west.
Guang Zhou is one of the starting points of the "Maritime Silk Road", which, like its inland counterparts, had its origins during the Han Dynasty, some 2200 years ago. Although vast oceans separate the four corners of the earth, with advances in shipbuilding and navigation techniques, Cathay maritime transport avant-couriers provide unprecedented access to the other parts of the world while linking China to the afar region.
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