Zheng Zhilong

Zheng Zhilong

▪ Chinese pirate
Wade-Giles romanization   Cheng Chih-lung , original name  Zheng Yiguan , also called  Iquan 
born 1604, Nan'an, Fujian province, China
died Nov. 24, 1661, Beijing

      Chinese pirate leader who achieved great power in the transitional period between the Ming (Ming dynasty) (1368–1644) and Qing (Qing dynasty) (1644–1911/12) dynasties.

      As a boy, Zheng found employment with the Europeans in the Portuguese settlement at Macau, where he was baptized and given the Christian name of Nicholas Gaspard. After leaving Macau, he joined a pirate band that preyed on Dutch and Chinese trade. In 1628 he was induced by the government to help defend the coast against both the Dutch and the pirates. He soon acquired great wealth and power.

      When the capital of the Ming dynasty at Beijing was captured in 1644 by the Manchu of Manchuria (who founded the Qing dynasty), Zheng set up the Prince of Tang, or Zhu Yujian, in Fujian province in South China as the claimant to the Ming throne. Two years later, when the Manchu army achieved a sweeping victory in central China, Zheng again changed sides and was given titles and high office by the Qing government. But Zheng's son, Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga), the famous pirate leader who controlled the island of Formosa (Taiwan), refused to surrender to Qing forces. As a result, Zheng was imprisoned and stripped of all rank in 1655. He was executed in 1661 for his son's stubborn refusal to surrender.

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