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2005年是郑和下西洋600周年。阅江楼下的静海寺见证了这样一段辉煌的历史:从1405年至1433年,郑和先后七次受中国明成祖朱棣派遣,率领庞大的船队从今天的南京出发,经马来群岛、斯里兰卡、印度、阿拉伯地区,最远抵达非洲东部(有史学家甚至认为,他们绕过非洲最南端的好望角到达了西南非洲)。半个多世纪后(1488年),欧洲人才第一次绕过好望角,进入印度洋。可见,当时明朝的海上力量相对于欧洲占有多大的优势。但是,在后来的不到一个世纪里,明朝的海上力量优势就丧失殆尽。这确实发人深省。
2005 is the 600th anniversary of Zheng He’s journey to the West. Jinghai Temple downstairs in Yuejiang witnessed such a glorious history: From 1405 to 1433, Zheng He was dispatched seven times by China’s Ming Dynasty ancestor Zhu Di and led a huge fleet starting from today’s Nanjing to Malay islands. Sri Lanka, India and Arabia, the farthest reaches of eastern Africa (historians even think they have reached the southwest Cape of Good Hope in South Africa). More than half a century later (in 1488), Europeans for the first time bypassed the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean. Visible, when the Ming Dynasty maritime power in Europe relative to how much advantage. However, in less than a century later the Ming dynasty had lost its maritime strength. This is truly thought-provoking.