what is sea culture?

Staring into the Gaze of a Very Different Beast--A Comparison Between Chinese Civilization and Western Civilization

Staring into the Gaze of a Very Different Beast--A Comparison Between Chinese Civilization and Western Civilization
Ancient Treasures may help explaining big historic mysteries of China: Why did our ancestors leave us a legacy that is so distinctive? Why was China Empire declining while the West catching up in the late centuries?
Recently I visited an exhibition on Etruscan Civilization in Shanghai Museum. Beside its attractive exotic style, it has a unique emphasis on the instrumental form a form that reflects a culture of the sea. There, two vessels caught my eyes. One is a wine cup in the shape of a merchant ship. The other is a pot,which looks like a fish.
This is very interesting.
Our antiques concern tens of thousand of pots and cups, but as I see it, rarely do we have anything shaped into a sea-born a