Koxinga 國姓爺 |
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1. Count of Zhongxiao 2. Marquis of Weiyuan 3. Duke of Zhang 4. Prince of Yanping |
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The mid-17th century painting The Portrait of Koxinga
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Ruler of the Kingdom of Yanping | |||||
Reign | 14 June 1661 – 23 June 1662 | ||||
Successor | Zheng Xi | ||||
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27 August 1624 Hirado, Hizen Province, Japan |
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Died |
23 June 1662 (aged 37) Chengtian Prefecture , Kingdom of Yanping (modern-day Tainan, Taiwan) |
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Spouse | Dong You, Princess Wu of Chao | ||||
Issue |
Zheng Jing and other nine sons four daughters |
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House | House of Zheng | ||||
Father | Zheng Zhilong | ||||
Mother | Tagawa Matsu |
Posthumous name | |
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Prince Wu of Chao |
Koxinga | |||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 國姓爺 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Literal meaning | Lord of the Imperial Surname | ||||||||||||||||||
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Zheng Chenggong | |||||||||||||||||||
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Zheng Sen | |||||||||||||||||||
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Transcriptions | |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Guóxìngyé |
Bopomofo | ㄍㄨㄛˊㄒㄧㄥˋㄧㄝˊ |
Wade–Giles | Kuo-hsing-yeh |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Kok-sèng-iâ/Kok-sìⁿ-iâ |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèng Chénggōng |
Bopomofo | ㄓㄥˋ ㄔㄥˊㄍㄨㄥ |
Wade–Giles | Cheng Ch'eng-kung |
Hakka | |
Romanization | Tshàng Sṳ̀n-Kûng |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Tīⁿ Sêng-kong |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèng Sēn |
Bopomofo | ㄓㄥˋㄙㄣ |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Tīⁿ Sim |
Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga or Coxinga (traditional Chinese: 國姓爺; simplified Chinese: 国姓爷; pinyin: Guóxìngyé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-sèng-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.