Only the surname "Zheng" can pick peaches and pass on the peaches from generation to generation.
As a constitutional monarchy, Thailand is a god-like being with certain real power and cannot be desecrated.
The Bangkok Dynasty has been going on since 1782 and has a history of more than two hundred years. The current king is named Vajiralongkorn, known as "Rama X", the tenth emperor of Thailand, but he also has a Chinese named "Zheng Mian".
This is very surprising, why did he take a Chinese name as a Thai king? Not only him, but all the kings of Thailand have had a Chinese name with the surname Zheng. Is there any origin between the Thai royal family and China, and is it the descendants of the Chinese?
Thailand's territory is not far from China, the history of the Chinese in the South China Sea, Thailand is also one of the important destinations, so the Chinese in Thailand are also more, really Chinese descendants, take a Chinese name is not strange, miss their home country.
Rama I's mother is indeed of Chinese descent, but the Thais also follow their father's surname, and his father is a Thai, where is the "Zheng" surname?
It is still necessary to find out from the first king, Rama I, who was the founder of the kingdom of Bangkok.
Rama I, the first king of the Bangkok Dynasty in Thailand, whose original name was Thong Luang, served as a local military governor. Later attacked by Burma, the war was defeated, causing him to flee into the wilderness, so he defected to one of his friends, who then took him to write another history, this friend and nobleman's name was called Zheng Xin, and it was because of this friend that the later kings of Thailand had a Chinese name and surnamed Zheng.
This Zheng Xin has a connection with China. He is a native of Chenghai, Guangdong, and his father is a pure Chinese, because of the oppression of life, he smuggled into the sea to Thailand to seek survival. Although he was a foreigner, he was still a good mix, a smart man, a smooth career, and married and had children in the local area. As a Chinese, his son naturally followed his surname Zheng, he must have dreamed and could not have imagined, he gave birth to a son with many achievements, so that the kings of Thailand have followed his surname Zheng to this day.
At that time, Zheng Xin started in Thailand as a small palace guard, relying on his own ingenuity to rise step by step, and then when the Burmese army attacked Thailand, then he took the opportunity to stand up, led his troops out of the siege, killed the Burmese army by surprise, not only recovered the territory, but also unified the fragmented Thailand, laying the basic map of Thailand today. It was also natural to be proclaimed king and establish the Thonburi Dynasty, also known as Thonburi the Great, the head of the five greatest emperors in Thailand.
The Thai government also deliberately set December 28 every year as "Emperor Zheng's Day", which shows how much his old man is loved in the eyes of the people.
Zheng Xin, who became the king of a country, sent emissaries to China to ask the Chinese government to make him king of Siam. During his reign, he was also conscientious and worked hard to unify the whole country of Siam. However, Zheng Xin was overthrown after 15 years on the throne and beaten to death with sandalwood, and his close friend Zhao Pya Chokri (Thong Luang), who later became Rama I.
In 1782, during a palace coup in Thailand, Zheng Xin was forced to abdicate and was executed the next day. The fierce-hearted Zhao Pya Chokri, just in case, also killed all his descendants, and a large number of Chinese generals who helped Thailand's independence were also killed.
This was not over, he was worried that the Qing Dynasty would intervene, did not dare to say that he was a usurper, and even went to report to the Qing Dynasty in the name of Zheng Xin's son Zheng Hua, saying that his "father" Zheng Xin had died of illness, and asked Qianlong to canonize him.
Since then, the kingdom of Bangkok has emerged, and he has become Rama I. In order to hide his eyes and ears, he regarded himself as "Zheng Hua" in his diplomacy with China, and his descendants also followed this tradition, all surnamed Zheng.
Interestingly, Zheng Xin's Thai name is exactly "Thaksin", yes, Yingluck's brother that "Thaksin".