Philippine discoveries show influence of Quanzhou
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Updated: 2021-07-30 09:10
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An aerial view of Anping Bridge, one of 22 representative cultural relic sites in Quanzhou, Fujian province, included in the city's recent inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. [Photo/Xinhua]
Bobby Orillaneda, a senior researcher at the Philippine National Museum of Anthropology, fell in love with ancient Chinese ceramics in 1999 when he joined a shipwreck excavation in Palawan, an archipelagic province in the Southeast Asian country.
As a ceramic researcher and head of the museum's maritime and underwater heritage division, Orillaneda says Chinese ceramics at the museum date to nearly 1,000 years ago, or the Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties.