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.
Tanmen and Paigang Village
A coastal settlement where inherited sea-route knowledge meets a fishermen’s manual in a museum collection.
The Hainan provincial government’s English account locates Paigang Village in Tanmen Town, Qionghai, and describes a Geng Lu Bu tradition passed from generation to generation. Nearby, the South China Sea Museum identifies a Qing-era detailed manual compiled by fishermen to record maritime information as part of its permanent collection. The available pages establish a relationship between place, practice and a surviving object, while leaving the manual’s individual makers and route details unspecified.
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Fishing boats at Tanmen Harbour, photographed 14 February 2013 from Paigang Village ferry landing.Zhangmoon618 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full original was not downloaded. WebP derivatives were not enlarged.