Koxinga

Koxinga 國姓爺
1. Count of Zhongxiao 2. Marquis of Weiyuan 3. Duke of Zhang 4. Prince of Yanping
The mid-17th century painting The Portrait of Koxinga
Ruler of the Tungning
Reign	14 June 1661 – 23 June 1662
Successor	Zheng Xi
Born	27 August 1624 (1624-08-27) Hirado, Hizen Province, Japan
Died	23 June 1662 (1662-06-24) (aged 37) Chengtian Fu (), Tungning (modern-day Tainan, Taiwan)
Spouse	Dong You, Princess Wu of Chao
Issue	Zheng Jing and other nine sons four daughters
Posthumous name Prince Wu of Chao
House	House of Zheng
Father	Zheng Zhilong
Mother	Tagawa Matsu

Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga or Coxinga (IPA: [kɔk̚³²⁻⁴ɕiɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ia²⁴]), (POJ= Kok-sèng-iâ/Kok-sìⁿ-iâ) was a Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast. Conquering the Dutch outposts on Taiwan, he established a dynasty which ruled the island as the Kingdom of Tungning.

Zheng Sen was born in 1624 in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, to Zheng Zhilong, a Chinese merchant and pirate, and a Japanese woman, recorded only by her surname Tagawa, or probably Tagawa Matsu. He was raised there until the age of seven with the Japanese name Fukumatsu (Japanese: 福松^?), and then moved to Nan'an county in Quanzhou in Fujian province of China.

In 1638, Koxinga became a Xiucai (a successful candidate) in the imperial examination and became one of the twelve Linshansheng (廩膳生) of Nan'an. In 1641, Koxinga married the niece of Dong Yangxian, an official who was a Jinshi from Hui'an. In 1644, Koxinga studied at the Imperial Nanking University, where he met and became a student of the scholar Qian Qianyi.