Fujian

Somewhere here is the burial site of Admiral Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0610/c90000-9226865.html

It when China was the greatest naval superpower on earth.

But she decided to give it all up because for her to go out into distant lands was to mingle with people whose culture clearly were leagues below that of China. There was no point in admixing with them. They really had NOTHING to offer to China.

Which would you go to for a holiday:

Paris/Singapore/Kyoto/Rome/New York 

or 

a jungle village in Papua, New Guinea.