Ka pātaihia mai tēnei ki a mātou i ētahi wā. He aha i Quanzhou ai?
Koinei te whakautu mārama. Kei reira ngā wāhanga. Ko ngā ngira, ko ngā kāmera, ko ngā peera—ka kitea e koe te nuinga o ngā mea e uru ana ki roto i temīhini whatu porowhitai roto i te radius rima tekau kiromita. He āwhina tēnā. Engari ehara tēnā i te whakautu tūturu.
Kei tua atu te whakautu tuturu.
I taua wā, ko Zayton te ingoa o Quanzhou. I haere a Marco Polo i reira i te rautau 13. Ehara ia i te miihini kakahu, engari i kite ia i tetahi mea. I tuhituhi ia mō ngā damask me ngā weriweri i hangaia ki konei, me te kī he pai ake i ngā mea i kitea e ia i ngā tāone nui o te raki. I kī ia i tapaina te kakahu i muri i te tāone tonu.
He pai tonu ki ahau taua āhuatanga. Ehara mātou i te mea he awa e neke ana i ngā pouaka. Ko mātou te wāhi e hanga ana i te mea e hiahiatia ana e te katoa.
Mō te wā roa, ko te hiraka te tikanga. Ināianei ko ngā mīhini whatu porowhita. I rerekē ngā rauemi. I rerekē ngā taputapu. Engari i mau tonu te whakaaro: hangaia ki konei, hangaia kia pai, tukuna atu.
Tērā tētahi atu paparanga o te kōrero mō Quanzhou kāore i roto i ngā pukapuka hītori. He maha ngā mahi hangarau tika o mua i tēnei rohe—te momo e hiahiatia ana hei hanga i tētahi mīhini raka pono—i ahu mai i ngā tohungatanga o Taiwan. Neke atu i te kotahi whakatipuranga, i tau taua mātauranga ki konei, i konatunatua ki te hanga ā-rohe, ā, i whanake hei mea motuhake ki Quanzhou. He mahi whaihua. Ehara i te mea mō ngā pūmanawa papai; engari mō tētahi mīhini ka taea te whakahaere i ngā huringa e toru i roto i tētahi wheketere haumākū me te kore e riri.
He rerekē te hikoi i roto i te awheawhe o te kaiwhakarato i konei. Ehara i te mea ko te hoko noa i tētahi wāhanga. Kei te kōrero koe ki tētahi tangata nāna i hanga ngā ngira tōna pāpā, ki tētahi rānei nāna i whakapau kaha ki te wha tekau tau ki te whakatika i ngā kōtaha kāmera. He mea nui tēnei ina ngana koe ki te hanga i tētahi mīhini e hiahia ana kia mau ki ōna paerewa i muri i te 8,000 hāora.
He mea pai te kōrero mō te hītori, engari kāore e taea te whakahaere tonu i te raina whakaputa.
Ko te mea e whakakorikori tonu ana ko te mea, ina hoahoa mātou i tētahi mīhini Morton, kāore mātou e mahi ana i roto i tētahi pourewa tari i roto i tētahi tāone kāore he wheketere. Kei te karapotia mātou e te haruru o te hanga tuturu. Mena ka wera te peera, e mōhio ana mātou ko wai hei waea atu. Mena kei te raru mātou i tētahi ranunga miro hou mai i Turkey, ka taea e mātou te whakamātautau i raro i te tiriti.
Nō reira, ina pātai mai tetahi he aha a Quanzhou, kāore au i te nuinga o te wā e whakahua ana i te Ara Hiraka Moana.
Ka tohu noa ahau ki te mīhini e rere ana i te kokonga.
He marino. He rite tonu. Ā, ka eke ki runga poti ki tētahi wāhi tawhiti i te wiki e tū mai nei.
Koinā anake te whakautu e tino hira ana.
Morton — Ngā Otinga Tuitui Matatau