Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644)...
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Ming treasure voyages (redirect from Voyages of Zheng He)
territories and islands of the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. Admiral Zheng He was commissioned to command the fleet for the expeditions. Six of the voyages...
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Niushoushan (redirect from Zheng He Culture Park)
8th year of the Xuande era of the Ming Dynasty, the renowned navigator Zheng He died on the west coast of India in Calicut and was granted burial at Niushou...
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CMA CGM Zheng He is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is among the world's largest containerships, at 16,020 TEU. The ship was built...
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Junk (ship) (section Expedition of Zheng He)
Church 2005, pp. 1–4, 38. "Zheng He xia Xiyang de chuan” 鄭和下西洋的船, Dongfang zazhi 東方雜誌 43 (1947) 1, pp. 47-51, reprinted in Zheng He yanjiu ziliao huibian 鄭和研究資料匯編...
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Zheng Zhegu (simplified Chinese: 郑鹧鸪; traditional Chinese: 鄭鷓鴣; pinyin: Zhèng Zhègū, 1880–1925) was a Chinese actor and entrepreneur. The son of a Qing...
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St. Elmo's fire (section Zheng He)
Colophon had alluded to the phenomenon. In 15th-century Ming China, Admiral Zheng He and his associates composed the Liujiagang and Changle inscriptions, the...
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Zheng Siwei (Chinese: 郑思维; pinyin: Zhèng Sīwéi; born 26 February 1997) is a Chinese badminton player specializing in doubles. He is an Olympic gold medalist...
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Zheng He (Chinese: 郑和; born November 1958) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army who served as president of PLA National Defense University...
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individuals so named Zheng He (1371–1433), Chinese admiral He (和) and He (合), collectively known as 和合二仙 (He-He er xian, "Two immortals He"), two Taoist immortals...
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Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho)'s Seven Wells lie in the foot of the Bukit China, beside the Poh San Teng Temple. These wells were dug by Admiral Zheng He's expedition...
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admiral Zheng He, who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty. The size of the treasure ships, the largest ships in Zheng He's fleet...
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Cartography of China (section Zheng He)
grids were produced. During the 15th century, the Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He went on a series of voyages to the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and beyond...
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in Kaifeng, dating to 1820. Zheng He, mariner and explorer Fei Xin, Zheng He's translator Ma Huan, a companion of Zheng He Generals from the Qing era:...
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utmost zeal. The school of thought he used was Al-Shafi‘i with similar customs to those he had seen in India. Zheng He is credited to have settled Chinese...
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Chen Zuyi (section Defeat by Zheng He)
for several years. His fleet was defeated by the Ming dynasty Admiral Zheng He at the Battle of Palembang (1407). Chen was captured and sent to Chinese...
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Wat Phanan Choeng (section Visit by Zheng He)
was visited in 1407 CE by Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch admiral from Yunnan who leading his second Ming imperial voyage. He bestowed gifts upon the...
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Sailors in Ming China (section Zheng He's voyages)
and sails. The fleets in Zheng He's voyages were also populated by various other people with differing skills. During Zheng He's voyages, eunuchs served...
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He was best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He...
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Mao Kun map (redirect from Zheng He's Navigation Map)
modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map (traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin: Zhèng Hé hánghǎi tú), is a set of navigation...
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appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One eunuch, Zheng He, led seven...
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書一千三百七十六年。考之肇啟漢初,傳至我宣德七年。 Hesheng, Zheng; Yijun, Zheng (1980). 郑和下西洋资料汇编 (A Compilation of Materials on Zheng He's Voyages to the West) Volume 2, Part...
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local king Vira Alakesvara of Gampola. Zheng He captured King Vira Alakesvara and later released him. Zheng He erected the Galle Trilingual Inscription...
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Zheng He Xia Xiyang is a 2009 Chinese television series based on the voyages of Zheng He, the explorer who led seven expeditions to Southeast Asia, South...
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Xuande Emperor in the Ming dynasty. He is best known as the commander of one of the detached squadrons of Zheng He's fleet during the Seventh Voyage of...
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Zheng (simplified Chinese: 郑; traditional Chinese: 鄭; pinyin: Zhèng; Wade–Giles: Cheng4, [ʈʂə́ŋ] ) is a Chinese surname. It is the 7th name on the Hundred...
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and undertook preparations to do so. On February 24, 1425, he appointed Admiral Zheng He as the defender of Nanjing and ordered him to continue his command...
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Tianwen-2 (redirect from ZhengHe (spacecraft))
that is currently under development. Tianwen-2 was originally known as ZhengHe. Tianwen-2 is scheduled to be launched on a Long March 3B rocket in May...
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Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the Timurid Empire in Central Asia. Zheng He's famous voyages even reached the shores of Southeast Asia, India, Persia...
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Visayans so the pirates had nothing much to loot. The Chinese Muslim mariner Zheng He is credited with founding several Chinese Muslim communities during China's...
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