当自印度洋返航——泉州湾宋代海船航线新考

Since the Song Shipwreck was excavated in Houzhu Bay of Quanzhou in 1974, scholars have conducted comprehensive and in-depth researches. Based on the current archaeological findings as well as some domestic and foreign documents, this article reinterprets the relevant archaeological analyses and discusses the following five aspects, namely, spices, cargo shells and ring-shaped cargo shells discovered on the shipwreck, the geographical distribution of hull attachments, historical records about the sailing of Chinese ships in the Indian Ocean during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, as well as another two Song shipwrecks discovered in South China Sea. It concludes that this junk must have returned from the Indian Ocean.