Zheng Chenggong (鄭成功)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zheng Chenggong as a bandit, general, rebel, and warlord. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zheng Chenggong	鄭成功	Zheng Chenggong
Personal name	Zheng Chenggong	鄭成功	Zheng Chenggong
Personal name	Zheng Chenggong	鄭成功

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:071:s0009
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:247:s0042, qingshigao:259:s0007

Roles

Bandit
General
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清順治十八年 · Western Year: AD 1661
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Source Date: Text: 鄭成功據台灣時期 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1661 · End: AD 1668
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0007
Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
Explicit · qingshigao:247:s0042

Family

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Parent of Zheng Jing (鄭經)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: pirate / 海寇
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Status: rebel-ruler · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Place: Taiwan / 臺灣 · Relation: held
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Place: Xiamen / 廈門 · Relation: stationed-at
Explicit · qingshigao:247:s0146

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: invader · Action: attacked · Place: Jiangning / 江寧 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十六年 · Western Year: AD 1659
Explicit · qingshigao:247:s0042
Kind: political · Role: founder · Action: established · Place: Chengtian Prefecture / Eastern Capital / 承天府 / 東都 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清順治十八年 · Western Year: AD 1661
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: expelled · Place: Taiwan / 臺灣 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清順治十八年 · Western Year: AD 1661
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0009
Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: held · Place: Taiwan / 台灣
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0007

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0009

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 71Volume 71 Treatises 46: Geography 18, Tai Wan · 1 passage

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清順治十八年，海寇鄭成功逐荷蘭人據之，偽置承天府，名曰東都，設二縣，曰天興，曰萬年。 In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), the pirate Zheng Chenggong expelled the Dutch and held the island; he set up a rebel Chengtian Prefecture, styled it the Eastern Capital, and created two counties, Tianxing and Wannian.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 247Volume 247 Biographies 34: Peng Ershu, Lu Zhenfen, Yao Yanzhu, Bi Zhenji, Fang Guodong, Yu Pengju, Wang Tianjian, Yue Tingbiao · 3 passages

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十六年，鄭成功內犯，陷鎮江，入攻江寧。 In the sixteenth year Zheng Chenggong raided inland, captured Zhenjiang, and pressed the attack on Jiangning.

喀喀木等擊敗成功，體坤乃復至縣，賂重、大受謁大吏，謂士民送款，冀掩棄城罪。 After Kekemu and the others routed Chenggong, Tikun returned to his post and bribed Chong and Dashou to lobby the senior officials, claiming the local elite had submitted in order to hide his own crime of deserting the county.

鄭成功屯廈門，與漳州隔海相望。 Zheng Chenggong held Xiamen, facing Zhangzhou across the strait.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 259Volume 259 Biographies 46: Yi Li Bu, Ha Ke San, A Er Hu, Lu Shen, Ya Ji, Kuo Er Kun, Wang Chengye · 1 passage

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鄭成功據台灣為亂，議者謂當徙瀕海居民入內地，以避剽掠，絕接濟，命宜里布與尚書蘇納海歷江南、浙江、福建勘疆界。 With Zheng Chenggong holding Taiwan in revolt, officials urged relocating coastal populations inland to escape raids and cut off rebel supplies. Yi Li Bu and Minister Sunahai were sent to survey boundaries through Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Fujian.