{"id":7252,"date":"2025-06-17T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/alpha\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:56:01","slug":"sri-lanka-hosts-symposium-on-zheng-hes-voyage-and-asian-civilizational-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/sri-lanka-hosts-symposium-on-zheng-hes-voyage-and-asian-civilizational-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Hosts Symposium on Zheng He\u2019s Voyage and Asian Civilizational Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Symposium on Zheng He\u2019s (\u90d1\u548c\uff09Voyage and Asian Multi Civilizations was held at the BMICH on 4th and 5th June 2025. This was organized by the Central Cultural Fund of Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During this two day symposium scholars from China and Sri Lanka present their research papers with historical and archaeological evidence to prove the Chino-Sri Lankan maritime connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"7255\" src=\"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505118742_1031945699087003_2183028444954438182_n-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505118742_1031945699087003_2183028444954438182_n-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505118742_1031945699087003_2183028444954438182_n-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, 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This was organized by the Central Cultural Fund of Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During this two day symposium scholars from China and Sri Lanka &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/sri-lanka-hosts-symposium-on-zheng-hes-voyage-and-asian-civilizational-links\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sri Lanka Hosts Symposium on Zheng He\u2019s Voyage and Asian Civilizational Links&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",768,509,false],"large":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",950,629,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"inspiro-featured-image":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"inspiro-loop":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-950x320.jpg",950,320,true],"inspiro-loop@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-600x398.jpg",600,398,true],"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-800x335.jpg",800,335,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-600x636.jpg",600,636,true],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1.jpg",960,636,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/505381818_1031946579086915_6135596751331853076_n-960x636-1-800x636.jpg",800,636,true]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccf.gov.lk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}