Introduction to the Ancient Ship Exhibition Hall and Song Dynasty Ships: The Quanzhou Bay Ancient Ship Exhibition Hall is located in Kaiyuan Temple. It mainly displays the Song Dynasty shipwrecks excavated from Houzhu Port in Quanzhou Bay in 1974 and their accompanying unearthed objects. The wreckage is 24.20 meters long and 9.15 meters wide. It was the earliest and largest Song Dynasty overseas trading ship discovered in China at that time. On the first floor, visitors can view and understand the typical characteristics of ancient Chinese pointed-bottom seagoing ships from different angles: high ends, sharpened bottoms, thick keels, flat and wide hulls, and very smooth lines; looking down from the railing on the second floor, you can see many It has a layer of hull plating, 13 watertight compartments and other wonderful ship structures.
The ship unearthed objects exhibition hall on the second floor displays spices and medicines, wooden cargo tags, copper and iron coins, ceramics, copper and iron ware, bamboo leaf and linen weavings, cultural supplies, decorations, leather products, fruit stones ( shells), shells, animal bones, etc. Next to the upper and lower corridors are also displayed ship equipment found in Quanzhou waters since the Song and Yuan Dynasties: stone anchors, wooden anchors, iron anchors and other physical objects.