Zheng He is known today as a great explorer, both of Chinese and Muslims in Southeast Asia honored. But while his name be known, details of his actions has less. In the early 15th century, while Europe slowly out of the Dark Ages and the Native Americans were by the applicants to their "New World", Zheng He, supported by the power of the Ming Dynasty, set from China was on seven powerful travel unspotted sleepers that the Indian Ocean, the sub-continent, the Middle East and the east coast of Africa.
spans Asia, these trips would around 300 ships count with the largest more than four ~~ POS = TRUNC fold ~~ POS = HEADCOMP the size of the vessels used Magellan circumnavigate the globe later decades and were of such something like 30,000 crew busy.
from Nanjing departure were Zheng He Treasure Fleets designed Chinese power in the world and ensure loyalty to the throne in Beijing to project. to show the fleet by gifts from Chinese emperors his generosity while loaded with the exotic of rulers back, to show their respect to the ultimate power. These ships were not built to destroy, but to impress.
Such powerful navy demanded a larger than life leader and Zheng He, a eunuch, was sure. Standing seven feet tall, he was far away in Yunnan province in the southwest of the country in 1368 born from any maritime influence. As a member of the Muslim community in China, Zheng He was Ma He born.
Almost two centuries before the Europeans came with were on their claim to the regions souls and spices, Zheng He and the Chinese familiar water to what was to become the Indonesian archipelago. He would frequent stops at well-established trading ports as Gresik (the there thousand Chinese families had to live and was ruled by a Chinese from Guandong Province), Semarang, Cirebon, Palembang and Aceh at a time before the Wali Songo (nine Islamic holy widely recognized as to have introduced Islam in Java) to propagate Islam were starting.
Maulana Malik Ibrahim, the first of the Wali Songo, arrived in 1404 in Java, spent the year before Zheng He first trip and most of his time in East Java, including Gresik where he finally buried in 1419 was it is tempting to think that the great explorer and the propagator of faith taken, but there is no known record of them to have done so.
passed Interestingly the treasure fleet of Palembang on her first trip in 1404. The decline of the Sriwijaya Empire in the late 13th century had left a vacuum that rushed to fill the Siamese in the north and the Majapahit in the southeast, effectively Palembang bypass. Some years ago Zheng He, the Strait of Malacca for the first time, Java was a puppet on the throne in Palembang is installed, effectively turning the once seat of an empire in a vassel drove. The locals were not as sharp and kicked the usurper and in the chaos that followed took a Chinese pirate named Chen Zuyi, so that the water treacherous for ships with them. The treasure fleet would not wait for the trip to take back up to and defeating the pirates in battle.
Ma Huan accompanied Zheng He on one of his trips and much, comes from what we know today of his chronicle. He describes the Javanese population are divided into three groups :. The natives who Javanese clinging belief in its Hindu, Muslims and the Chinese, many of which he as a Muslim described
During trading, Zheng He and his team proved with the local population, observant of local customs. It is noted that the wayang performance was similar narrative traditions they were used back home.
Other local habits seemed less familiar. A fight to the death attracted their attention. Back and forth to the beat of drums, two armed with spears fighters would try to conquer their enemies and to receive, as a reward, the new widow or the slaves of the deceased.
A stop saw Zheng He put in at Semarang, as his vice commander, Wang Jing Hong, ill. After more than a week, and Wang is still not quite as Zheng He had continued his journey was his deputy behind, waiting for him to catch up later recovered. Legend Wang has never followed his boss. He liked Semarang so much he decided to stay in.
Semarang figures largely in the history of Zheng He. Another story says that he stayed for a while in a cave near the city. Today his legacy lives dedicated to his memory with a temple on the outskirts of the city, Sam Po Kong (or Gedung Batu). Only one of several such places in Southeast Asia and the eunuch to use the travel again.
After Zheng He's death leaders of the Chinese community Semarang their people implored to "Javanise 'itself, follow Javanese name adoption and implementation of a Javanese lifestyle. Many Chinese people were very influential and married into local, dominant families including one who Regent of the Majapahit kingdom was married.
Zheng he's legacy far more than a few temples are scattered around the region. the fact that he worked for a Muslim Explorer for a Chinese emperor tells us that the 15th century Asia a more cosmopolitan place was when we credit for and disclose the fact that he is so much both revered show by the Chinese and Muslim communities in Southeast Asia that he is a character who politicize the small and nationalist points transcends that too often the relations between the countries scours.
Zheng he should be a model for integration and tolerance. Instead it has become a sideshow in history, little understood by the Chinese diaspora and all but ignored for his role in the spread of Islam through the islands. Maybe it takes a Hollywood film to finally give this giant of a man, the respect and honor which he fully deserves.
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