A Brief Account of Ancient Chinese Marine Civilization and Ocean Strategy
Abstract: Chinese civilization not only contains agricultural civilization, nomadic civilization, but also contains marine civilization. Marine civilization, nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization together constitute China's ancient civilization. Chinese people have their own maritime traditions and maritime ideas, and have developed different maritime road with the West in the course of historical development. Studies show that from the 3rd century to the 15th century, the ancient Chinese maritime industry and navigation technology had been in the world's leading position. Since the Qin Dynasty, the military strength of the sea had connected closely with the national defense security and the rise and fall of the country, and later dynasties had taken overseas islands as a national security barrier. Since ancient times, the Chinese rulers had monopoly business on the national defense security material, the people's livelihood as well as the overseas trade, operating the maritime forces in a non－violent manner. At the same time, the overseas territories and overseas vassals had been neglected, the overseas immigrants had been control strictly, the Western trade in China had been carried in business management model, and the sea ban policy had been in implementation.
Key words: Marine Civilization; Marine Strategy; Overseas Trade; Sea Ban Policy