Zheng Chenggong's mother was a Japanese, which means that the shining national hero in Our Chinese history is actually a Mixed-Race Chinese and Japanese. But this does not affect the status of Zheng Chenggong, of course, some people will talk about blood, and even the famous Mouth Gao Xiaosong once said in the program that Zheng Chenggong was like a fake "big Wokou".
But in fact, none of this can erase Zheng's achievements in successfully resisting the Qing Dynasty and recovering Taiwan. So please don't look at our heroes with a narrow national view.
According to the records of the "Testament of the Second King of Yanping", Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong once started a career in Japan, which led to the later Zheng Chenggong. In his early years, Zheng Zhilong was an international businessman, and his main task at that time was to take Ming Dynasty goods to Japan for trade. With excellent ability and clever mind, Zheng Zhilong not only accumulated huge wealth but also had extensive contacts in Japan. In order to win zheng zhilong, the Japanese daimyō Matsuura clan brokered a marriage for him, so Zheng Zhilong had a Japanese daughter-in-law, The Tagawa clan, and the two also gave birth to Zheng Chenggong in the same year.
Zheng Zhilong was a very busy man, running around the sea all year round, working hard for his "pirate group", so Zheng Chenggong was almost pulled up by his mother Tagawa Clan, when he was almost a Japanese child, wearing a clogs and running blindly by the sea, eating Japanese rice balls and sushi. However, when Zheng Chenggong was seven years old, he and his mother were taken to their hometown in Fujian by their father, which began to localize education. However, although the Tianchuan clan is not Chinese, she also knows that we Han people are loyal to the king and patriotic, Zheng Chengfu has become a generation of heroes, and her mother's education is indispensable.
Zheng Chenggong was lucky, he was born a natural pride, at that time the Zheng family was the largest reliance of the Small Imperial Court of the Ming Dynasty in the southeast, and the Zheng family navy was even more across the coast, which was a great trouble for the Qing army. Zheng Chenggong, the son of the Zheng family, is naturally the focus of everyone's attention, and at a young age, he was appreciated by the emperor and given the name "Success", all of which planted the seed in Zheng Chenggong's heart. But at the same time, he was unfortunate, at that time the Ming Dynasty was dead, the Qing army was in the Central Plains, the soldiers pointed directly to the southeast, so chaotic, Zheng Chenggong as the zheng family young lord, is bound to bear the brunt of it.
However, unfortunately, Zheng Chenggong and his father Zheng Zhilong chose two very different paths. Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate merchant, everything was based on his own interests, and he was sleek, so he didn't care about the righteousness of the country. In his heart, he had long planned how to make peace with the Qing Dynasty and leave glory and wealth for himself, while Zheng Chenggong was bent on resisting the Qing. In the end, the father and son parted ways, Zheng Zhilong went to become a high official of the Qing Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong held high the banner of righteousness.
Later, Zheng Zhilong repeatedly summoned Zheng Chenggong on behalf of the Qing Dynasty, but Zheng Chenggong was absolutely unaffected, and it was precisely because of this that the Qing court moved its anger towards Zheng Zhilong. In the end, Zheng successfully recovered Taiwan and became a generation of national heroes. Zheng Zhilong, on the other hand, was beheaded by his master, leaving behind an ancient infamy. Speaking of, Zheng Zhilong's death, Zheng Chenggong also has to be responsible, if it were not for his insistence on resisting the Qing, Zheng Zhilong would not have suffered such a tragic ending, quite a bit of the taste of Ma Chao of the Three Kingdoms.
Why did Zheng Chenggong ignore his father's life and death, just because of the national vendetta?
Of course not, the biggest reason is Zheng Chenggong's mother. According to the Jinghai Zhi, in 1646, the Qing army captured the Anping area of the Zheng family's stronghold, and they committed a series of atrocities against the people after capturing the city. Zheng Chenggong's mother, the Tian Chuan clan, also suffered bad luck at this time, and it is reasonable to say that the Qing army of the Tian Chuan clan should be used well, but this woman, too strong, faced with the brutal Qing soldiers, did not compromise in the slightest, and even wore armor and held a sword, taking the Zheng family to kill the enemy, and the scarf did not let the eyebrows be raised.
In order to "punish" her behavior, the angry Qing army had a large number of soldiers gang rape her and then kill her. Zheng Chenggong, who returned home, saw his mother who died extremely tragically, and his emotions collapsed many times. However, after his mood has stabilized a little, he also needs to consider how to send his mother on the last journey. In this case, he found a knife and axe tool to break the mother's stomach, and then took out the mother's liver and stomach one by one to wash, and finally "returned" the internal organs to re-suture the mother's stomach.
Success and hatred, using the Yi method to cut off his mother's abdomen, out of the intestines to cleanse the filth, and to re-accept it for burial. ——Quoted from Huang Zongxi's "The Beginning and End of the Surname". This series of steps may seem a bit "brutal", but it is a kind of purification of the deceased, because the mother was raped and died, so the only thing the son can do is to return the mother's innocence.
The Qing History Manuscript also records that in Japanese culture, going belly is a very sacred act, and many sins and stains will be refined by belly shaving. Although Zheng Chenggong has always been active in China, he was also influenced by Japanese culture when he was a child, so in his view, "purifying" his mother's abdomen is the best act of filial piety.
To sum up, this kind of behavior is not as cruel as we think, he is just an "alternative" way of filial piety. And the death of his mother made Zheng Chenggong and the Qing army form a feud between heaven and earth. Unlike his father Zheng Zhilong, the Tagawa clan was just one of his father's many wives and concubines, and he did not have so much hatred. But for Zheng Chenggong, this is his blood birth mother, if he surrenders to the Qing Dynasty and gives up hatred. Have you not become unfaithful and filial piety?
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1. "Jinghai Zhi"
2. Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
3. "The Beginning and the End of the Family Name"
4. The Collected Works of the Second King of Yanping