What is Zheng He's real name?

Original name: Ma Zhenghe was born in the fourth year of Ming Hongwu (137 1), formerly known as Ma. In the 13th year of Hongwu 138 1 winter, the Ming army attacked Yunnan. Ma, 10 years old, was taken into Ming camp, castrated as a eunuch, and then entered Yan Wangfu. During the Jingnan Rebellion, Ma made meritorious military service for the prince in Zhengzhou, Hebei Province (now Renqiu, Hebei Province, not Zhengzhou, Henan Province). In the second year of Yongle (1404), Ming Taizu Judy thought that Ma's surname could not be included in the Sanbaotang. So, in Nanjing, the word "Zheng" was given to Ma, renamed He, and appointed as the eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ranking second only to the fourth. In the sixth year of Xuande (143 1), Zheng He was made a three-treasure eunuch. The content of Zheng He's Encyclopedia comes from Zheng He (137 1- 1433), formerly known as Ma, a Hui nationality, a navigator, diplomat and eunuch in China in the Ming Dynasty. Zheng He is the most outstanding navigator in the history of China. Zheng He's talent has been vividly reflected in all the great undertakings he has done in his life. He has shown outstanding wisdom and talent in navigation, diplomacy, military affairs, architecture and many other aspects. He is a eunuch, and indeed a rare China celebrity who has not been castrated spiritually in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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Zheng He Zheng He, formerly known as Ma, is known as the eunuch. Hui nationality in Zhi Dai village, Baoxiangshan, Kunyang, Yunnan. Sayyid Agal chams Al-Sayyid Shams Din 'Umar, the sixth ancestor, was a Semu aristocrat from Central Asia in the early Yuan Dynasty, a descendant of King Muhammad of Bukhara, and a former governor of Yunnan Province and king of Xianyang, posthumous title. Great-grandfather Bo Yan was in office in the 11th year of Yuan Dade (1307), and his great-grandmother Ma Shi, his grandfather Minahazi and his grandmother Shi Wen. Father Mahacais (formerly known as Miri, Malaysia Jin) sealed Yunnan Yanghou, in Chinese. The people call themselves Xianyang family. Ma's surname is "Mahmud" in Arabic in China. Since Zheng He's grandfather and father have been to Mecca, the holy place of Islam, he has known about foreign countries since he was a child.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He was captured as a child. Unfortunately, he was purged and became a eunuch in the palace. Because he actively followed the prince, he was named Zheng and promoted to "internal prison".

In the third year of Yongle (1405), he went to the western ocean with Wang Jinghong (the ocean between Kalimantan and Africa), led more than 27,800 foot soldiers, and took 62 treasure ships with a length of 44 feet and a width of 18, loaded with porcelain, gold and silver silk, and set out from Liujiagang, Suzhou, and passed through Zhancheng (now southern Vietnam), Java and Java.

After returning to China in the fifth year of Yongle (1407), he went abroad seven times (eight times each time) and reached the east coast of Africa and the mouth of the Red Sea as far as possible. Zheng He's voyages to the West were more than half a century earlier than Columbus and Da Gama in the west, and the fleet size and ships were several times larger than them. Zheng He's voyages to the West promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between China and Asian and African countries, and there are still many relics of Zheng He in Southeast Asia. His entourage, Ma Huan's Ying Ya Sheng Lan, Fei Xin's Xing Xu Sheng Lan and Gong Zhen's Xi Guo Fanzhi, recorded what they saw and heard during the voyage, which are very valuable.

1435, Zheng He died from overwork on his way back to China. Zheng He is a native of Kunyang, Yunnan, whose real name is Sambo. Zheng He, whose real name is Ma, was born in Daicun Village, Baoxiangshan, Kunyang Prefecture, Yunnan Province (now Jinning County, Kunming City), and was born in Hongwu four years of the Ming Dynasty (137 1 year). Zheng He's predecessor was the Bukhara people in the Western Regions, that is, the Semu people in the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu overthrew the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty. 1253, the Yuan army captured Dali in Yunnan and conquered the local ethnic groups. 1276, they established Yunnan Province and sent Sayyid Shams Din 'Umar Umar, the predecessor of Zheng He, to rule Yunnan. Sayyid Shams Din 'Umar Umar is a transliteration of Arabic, "Saidianchi" is the title of nobility, "Shansiding" means the sun of religion, and "Umar" is its real name, which means longevity. Sayyid Shams Din 'Umar Umar won the hearts of the people because of his outstanding achievements in governing Yunnan. After his death, he was named "King of Xianyang" by Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu. His father's real name is Miri, Malaysia Jin, and his Chinese name is only Maha (Ma's surname is China Arabic "Muhammad"), and he attacked Yanghou, Yunnan, and his mother is Wen. In the eighth year of Xuande (1433), Zheng He died in Guri on the west coast of India. Bury Niushou Mountain in Nanjing. Zheng He took Ma, the eldest son of his eldest brother, as his official residence. His name is Zheng Enlai, and the word is En Lai. He lives in Mafu, Sanshan Street (now Mafu Street) in Nanjing. The descendants of Zheng He have been handed down for 2 1 generation. According to another report, Li Zhigang, a doctor from Zishan, a history of rites and a great scholar from Zuo Chunfang in the third year of Yongle (1405), wrote the Chromium Record of Ma Lingyuan in Zheng He's genealogy. The inscription begins with Zheng He's great-grandfather worshipping Yan. His grandfather and father are both surnamed Ma, named Hazhi. His father Maha has only two sons, Chang, Zheng He and four sisters. About Zheng He, the genealogy says that his real name is Ma. On the first day of the first month in the second year of Yongle (1404), the imperial edict gave the surname. The genealogy also says that he "established an official in the name of his brother Wenming's son", which shows that the descendants of Zheng He are the origin of eunuchs. The genealogy takes Zheng He as all ancestors and gives him a second ancestor. Zheng He's descendants have two branches, one in Nanjing, Jiangsu, one in Yunnan and one in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The branch of Thailand was in the late Qing Dynasty. Sun Zheng Lin Chong, the 15th Zheng He, left his hometown in Yuxi, Yunnan and settled in Chiang Mai, Thailand. There are more than 30 descendants. Zheng presided over the construction of the first mosque in Chiang Mai, and the plaque forged with pure gold on the lintel of the mosque was also transported from Yunnan by caravan. The naming order of Nanjing Zhenghe's descendants is "loyalty and filial piety to Judas, rich accumulation, kinship for more than ten thousand generations, family and everything." Zheng He was born in a Hui family and knew the teachings and canon of Islam when he was young. Zheng He's father and grandfather worshipped Zheng He's sitting posture in Islam.

Mecca [1], a holy place, is familiar with the situation in distant foreign countries and overseas countries. Zheng He himself sent a fleet to the Red Sea coast of Arabian Peninsula during his voyage. From the conversation between his father and grandfather, young Zheng He has always been full of strong curiosity about the outside world. His father's upright, generous and unrequited character left an indelible memory in Zheng He's mind. After the Ming Dynasty unified Yunnan War, Zheng He was taken to Nanjing, castrated, assigned to Beiping as a eunuch, and served in Yanwangfu. Zheng He is a great navigator in the history of the world. Menzies, a former British naval officer and marine historian, published "China Discovers the World" in 142 1, arguing that Zheng He's fleet discovered America and Australia before Columbus. In the 28 years after 1405, Zheng He was ordered to lead his fleet to the Western Ocean seven times, and the route crossed the Indian Ocean from the Western Pacific to the east coast of west asia and africa, passing through more than 30 countries and regions. His voyage was 87 years earlier than Columbus' discovery of America, 92 years earlier than Bibi Gama, and 1 14 years earlier than Magellan. In the history of world navigation, he opened a direct route across the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. 600 years ago, from 65438 to 0405, in 28 years, Zheng He led more than 200 ships of the Ming Dynasty in China to sail in the world waters and visit various countries. Dr Joseph Needham of Harvard University thinks that during the period of 1420, there should be no less than 3,800 ships in China in the Ming Dynasty, which exceeded the sum of European ships at that time. Wherever we sailed, the Ming fleet led by Zheng He was the only powerful and unchallengeable force at that time. Today's western scholars and experts also admit that for all countries in the world at that time, the size and strength of the fleet led by Zheng He were unparalleled.