Qin Dynasty Shipyard Ruins

Qin Dynasty Shipyard Ruins

The Qin Dynasty Shipyard Ruins are a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

The Qin Dynasty Shipyard Ruins are situated on an earthen mound stretching 300 meters from east to west. Trial excavations carried out in 1975 revealed three shipbuilding platforms and the site of a timber processing area. Each platform is formed by two parallel rows of large wooden planks serving as a slipway, supported beneath by sleepers, and features opposing wooden piers along the slipway to hold the boat structure. In the timber processing site, tools such as “wood-bending ground bulls” used for steaming and bending wood were discovered, along with iron chisels, adzes, wedges, and wooden plumb bobs.

This shipyard was built during the period when Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the Lingnan region and was abandoned by the reigns of Emperors Wen and Jing of the Western Han Dynasty (179–143 BCE). This indicates that China’s shipbuilding technology had reached a relatively advanced level over 2,000 years ago.

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Further Reading:

· Fourth Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units