中国古代经略海洋的成就与局限

人们习惯于把中国称之"大陆国家",但此说有失偏颇,而此一偏颇正透露出传统的大陆—农耕文明对海洋、海权的忽略。中国其实是一个负陆面海、陆海兼备的国度,与西方国家大相径庭,中国人对海洋的认识和情感,显示了一种"大陆民族"的特有风格。古代中国素以经营陆疆著称,其实,先民也曾开辟颇具声色的海洋业绩,并在16世纪这个争夺航海优势的时代,有人产生中国式的海洋战略思想,这些思想反映了古人初级的海权诉求,也彰显了中国悠久的卫海、用海传统。

Ancient Chinese Marine Achievements and Limitations

People used to call China"mainland countries",this statement is inevitably biased,and such bias has revealed the ignoration of traditional agricultural civilization to the ocean and sea power.In fact,China is a nation possessing both land and ocean.Chinese people’s knowledge and emotion about ocean show a kind of "mainland nation" unique style.Ancient China was famous for land territory business.In fact,our ancestors had opened up brilliant marine performance,and someone even created Chinese marine strategic thought in the 16th century,an era fiercely struggling for sailing advantage.These thoughts reflected the primary sea power demands of ancients and also revealed China’s longstanding maritime-defending and using tradition.