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Zheng Chenggong

Koxinga
國姓爺
1. Count of Zhongxiao
2. Marquis of Weiyuan
3. Duke of Zhang
4. Prince of Yanping
The Portrait of Koxinga.jpg
The mid-17th century painting The Portrait of Koxinga
Ruler of the Kingdom of Yanping
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 Prefecture (), Kingdom of Yanping
(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
Posthumous name
Prince Wu of Chao
Koxinga
Traditional Chinese 國姓爺
Literal meaning Lord of the Imperial Surname
Zheng Chenggong
Traditional Chinese
Zheng Sen
Traditional Chinese

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.


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