Ci Tong Fengyun: an Epic of Quanzhou's Millennium Port Transport

This book takes Quanzhou as the core stage, strictly relies on historical facts, and connects the complete rise and fall history of Quanzhou from Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty to Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, from the budding trade to the world's largest port, to its prosperity and decline. The story takes the unique oriental sacrificial ritual of "praying for the wind and sacrificing the sea" as a clue, and cuts into the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to establish Quanzhou's trade status, Chen Kai, the governor of the state, held the first official wind prayer ceremony in Jiuri Mountain, which established the tone of Quanzhou as an overseas trade hub. Later, in the second year of Yuanyou, the imperial court established the Fujian Tiju Shipping Department, Quanzhou officially broke Guangzhou's monopoly, and the plot shifted to the heyday of the Southern Song Dynasty. As the Nanwai Zongzhengsi moved southward, thousands of royal family members poured into Quanzhou Port, bringing about the prosperity of consumption and culture. The protagonists gather at this moment: the foreign business tycoon Pu Shougeng has risen with his maritime power, forming a triangular check and balance with the officials of the Shipping Department representing the imperial court, and the Southern Song Dynasty clan Zhao Yulu who lived in the city. At this time, Quanzhou, according to Zhao Rushi's "Zhufan Zhi", had trade with 58 countries and reached the peak of "the largest port in the East". The book uses the ups and downs of real historical figures to interpret the maneuvers, struggles, prosperity and destruction of a port city in the great changes of the times, and completely restores the historical truth of "Quanzhou: China's world maritime trade center during the Song and Yuan Dynasties".