The provincial government’s account places Paigang Village in Tanmen Town, Qionghai, and describes it as an ancient fishing village. Its wording gives the coast a human scale: not a generic South China Sea panorama, but a settlement beside a fishing port. The provincial account places Paigang Village in Tanmen Town and describes the Geng Lu Bu route tradition as part of its inherited maritime life.
From the journal
A Sea Route Kept in a Fishermen’s Manual
In Tanmen, a living Geng Lu Bu tradition and a Qing-era manual point to different generations of coastal knowledge.
In the same city · Qionghai ↗A village named with its harbor
The Geng Lu Bu passed between generations
The provincial page calls the Geng Lu Bu the Manual of Sea Routes and says generations in Paigang have passed the tradition on. Its national intangible-cultural-heritage listing recognizes this navigation knowledge as a practice carried through teaching.
A Qing-era object in a modern museum
The China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea in Tanmen holds a detailed Qing-dynasty manual that fishermen compiled to record maritime information. The manuscript and Paigang’s living route tradition are two distinct records of knowledge shaped by the sea.
Knowledge kept in practice and in collections
The museum describes two exhibition zones, with indoor and open-air galleries in its southern zone and social functions in the north. Its collection includes South China Sea cultural relics and ship models. Paigang’s inherited Geng Lu Bu and the museum’s manual therefore meet visitors in different forms: one is described as a tradition passed between generations, the other as a collected historical object. Together they suggest how maritime knowledge can survive through use, teaching and preservation—without requiring us to claim that every present-day practice is unchanged from the Qing period.