I saw in the article that antique collector Lâm Dũ Xềnh was mentioned, and then I realized his surname Lâm is a typical Chinese surname, so he might be Han Chinese. Then I looked it up and found a video on YouTube where someone visits his collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6cQZ53P0c. The video introduction confirms that he really is of Chinese descent.
pizzaiolo 12 hours ago [-]
This was an interesting read, thanks for sharing.
wdutch 1 days ago [-]
I was in The Ho Chi Minh City History Museum this weekend and they have some very cool shipwreck exhibits, worth checking out.
flossly 23 hours ago [-]
> The Star of David [with an arrow]
David almost certainly never used the symbol. Despite it currently popular name, there's no evidence that King David (who lived around 1000 BCE) ever used the six-pointed star as his symbol. The connection between the hexagram and David is a much later tradition.
The symbol itself is ancient and appears in many cultures. During the medieval period the hexagram was arguably more prominent in Islamic contexts than Jewish ones. Which explains why it's along Arabic text found in Vietnam.
speak_plainly 20 hours ago [-]
They would have more accurately labelled it as the 'Seal of Solomon' in the context of religious, magical, and protective contexts.
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i_am_a_peasant 1 days ago [-]
My wife is vietnamese, I am learning vietnamese, i am interested in vietnamese history. Yet I cannot bring myself to care about this article lol.
contact9879 20 hours ago [-]
It’s not shipwrecks themselves that are particularly interesting, but in what they provide in contextual evidence to answer the foundational six questions: who, what, when, where, why, how.
> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.
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David almost certainly never used the symbol. Despite it currently popular name, there's no evidence that King David (who lived around 1000 BCE) ever used the six-pointed star as his symbol. The connection between the hexagram and David is a much later tradition.
The symbol itself is ancient and appears in many cultures. During the medieval period the hexagram was arguably more prominent in Islamic contexts than Jewish ones. Which explains why it's along Arabic text found in Vietnam.
> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.