Great hero zheng chenggong biography

Zheng Chenggong (1624-1662) was a militarist and a national hero in the late Ming (1368-1644) and early Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.

Zheng was born in a small Japanese coastal town.

When his father was given an official position in maritime defense by the Ming court in 1630, Zheng was recalled to the ancestral home in Fujian province.

In 1645, Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty (1644-1683) conferred the imperial surname, Zhu, upon Zheng Chenggong.

Thus he was also commonly called Guoxingye (lord of the imperial surname), or its Hokkien honorific Koxinga.

In 1646, Zheng led the Ming armies to resist the Manchu invaders of the Qing Dynasty. With Zheng's considerable strategic and organizational talents, he built a strong position on the Fujian coast and set military bases at Fujian's Kinmen and Xiamen.

In 1659, Zheng launched his most ambitious military campaign, a maritime expedition with more than 100,000