Carry forward the spirit of Zheng Chenggong's "success culture" and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait

In 2024, compatriots who are familiar with the history of Fujian and Taiwan will know that just 400 years ago today, the beautiful treasure island of Taiwan Island on the mainland was invaded and occupied by Dutch colonists. But more importantly, in the same year, our great "national hero" Zheng Chenggong was born. All the Taiwanese compatriots born in the 80s and 90s who grew up in Taiwan must have read the "Biography of Zheng Chenggong", and they can also learn the history of Zheng Chenggong's opening in primary and secondary school classrooms, especially when they came to Tainan, the "Fucheng", to visit the "Anping Castle" and "Chihkan Tower" and other historic sites, there was a bronze statue of Zheng Chenggong with "National Hero" written in the "Anping Castle" standing erect and standing there. Today, the author is fortunate to come to the development of southern Fujian, when I walked into the Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen and visited the Zheng Chenggong Park in Dapingshan in Quanzhou, I re-appreciated the great deeds and great footprints of our "national hero" Zheng Chenggong.

As everyone knows, General Secretary Xi Jinping once worked in Fujian Province for 17 and a half years. In 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered an important speech at the meeting held in Quanzhou, Fujian Province to commemorate the 335th anniversary of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, pointing out that "Zheng Chenggong's glorious name is closely linked to the spirit of patriotism, and this lofty patriotic spirit is a vivid embodiment of the Chinese nation's love for freedom, opposition to national oppression, and revolutionary struggle spirit." Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan and erected a glorious banner for the great cause of the motherland's reunification. As of today, Quanzhou and Xiamen in Fujian Province and other cities related to Zheng Chenggong will regularly hold activities to commemorate Zheng Chenggong, such as the "Zheng Chenggong Cultural Festival" held every year in Siming District, Xiamen City since 2010, including beliefs, customs, culture, academics, style and tourism, etc., the core meaning is to let compatriots on both sides of the strait jointly understand and inherit Zheng Chenggong's "success culture" spirit. In fact, the spirit of Zheng Chenggong's "success culture", combined with Zheng Chenggong's great deeds, also allows us to really analyze the core spirit of "success culture" one by one.

First, the spirit of "success culture" embodies the great patriotic spirit of loyalty and patriotism and safeguarding national unity. This has to start from Zheng Chenggong's loyal and patriotic spirit, Zheng Chenggong has been talented since childhood, 15 years old in Xiucai, 21 years old into Nanjing Guozijian to study deeply influenced by the Confucian trend of loyalty and patriotism, in 1644 the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in 1646 the Qing army entered Fujian, Emperor Longwu was captured in Tingzhou, hunger strike and died. Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong led his troops back to Anping and decided to surrender to the Qing army. Go to the back to stay, each doing its own thing, thank you for the Confucian service, but the ancestor Zhaojian. At this point, he threw his pen from Rong and decided to raise troops to resist the Qing Dynasty. This is Zheng Chenggong's loyalty, patriotism, and the great spirit of serving the country loyally.

Even if Shi Lang invaded Taiwan during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty and included Taiwan into the territory of the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor still spoke highly of and affirmed Zheng Chenggong's loyalty and righteousness, and issued an edict in the 39th year of Kangxi (1700), saying, "Zhu Chenggong is a relict of the Ming Dynasty, a thief who is not a rebel of the Ming Dynasty, and the official escort and the son are buried in Nan'an through two coffins, placed in the mound, and built an ancestral hall to worship him." Huang Zongxi, a great thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, praised Zheng Chenggong as "since the dust in Burma, Zheng's homeland has been clothed on the island with a brigade, and it is called Zhengshuo". And Zheng Chenggong is not only loyal and patriotic, and the Ming Dynasty is the right mold, he is most praised for expelling the Dutch in 1662 and returning Taiwan to the mainland territory.

Second, the spirit of "success culture" embodies the great spirit of opposing the colonial hegemony of Western imperialism and defending national dignity. We know that the modern history of the mainland is a tragic history of the nation, in the late Qing Dynasty in 1840, because of the Western powers' strong ships, and the corruption and incompetence of the Manchu government, we have been reduced to a "semi-colonial and semi-feudal" society, so when the late Qing Dynasty leaders encountered the Western powers, the most common performance in the Qing history TV series was to put forward "negotiations", but the next step after the "negotiations" was to cede land and pay compensation to sign various "unequal treaties" , even if the patriotic generals who were honest and loyal at the end of the Qing Dynasty and brave and resourceful, all had a feeling that they could not give me. However, our great national hero, Zheng Chenggong, is in great contrast to the cowardly Manchu government in the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1661, Zheng Chenggong led a large army from Liaoluo Bay, Kinmen, and after two naval battles and three land battles, defeated the Dutch colonists known as the "sea coachmen" at that time, and finally expelled the Dutch colonists in 1662 to recover Taiwan, so the author will always remember February 1, 1662 (December 13, the 15th year of Yongli) This day, the Dutch colonists signed the surrender agreement. This marks the return of Taiwan, the mainland's treasure island, to the embrace of the motherland, and is an example of the Chinese nation's successful opposition to foreign aggression for the first time in history, and it has defended China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and is of great historical significance. This not only embodies the hegemonism that directly destroys Western colonialism, but also defends the dignity of the Chinese nation. Qiu Fengjia, a patriotic poet who resisted Japan and defended Taiwan in the late Qing Dynasty, also spoke highly of Zheng Chenggong, and he commented: "By Xiucai as the king, he presided over half of the old rivers and mountains, and gave birth to the world's scholars; Therefore, as young people on both sides of the strait in the new era, we should learn from the spirit of Zheng Chenggong's "success culture", open up new careers in the new era, and promote the majesty of China.

Third, the spirit of "success culture" embodies the roots of Fujian and Taiwan cultural integration beliefs, and inspires the great spirit of backward love to win. Today in 2024, Zheng Chenggong has now become a godhead believer, and the spirit of Zheng Chenggong's "success culture" has been passed on to this day, and there are many Yanping County Wang Temples and temples in Fujian and Taiwan.

Zheng Chenggong's belief has existed in the hearts of the people for a long time, and the belief is popular and extensive. The story of Zheng Chenggong that circulates in Taiwanese folk is widely inherited, for example, the place name of Yingge District in New Taipei City is related to the folklore of Zheng Chenggong, if the Taiwanese compatriots who live in Yingge know that there is a parrot boulder on the slope of the mountain range north of Yingge, which is called "Parrot Stone", "Eagle Brother Stone", "Yingge Brother". Legend has it that this strange stone spits mist and eats people, and when Zheng Chenggong led the army to pass through here, he was obstructed by the miasma of the sky, charming way, and the soldiers were eaten, so Zheng Chenggong then commanded the soldiers to fire a huge cannon to break the neck of Yingge Stone, the miasma dissipated, and the army was able to continue to advance. Today, Taiwan's folk legends and beliefs about Zheng Chenggong have been deeply rooted among the Taiwanese people, and now it has become an important popular belief in Taiwan, with more than 300 palaces and temples related to Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan, plus the furnace meeting, the gods will be numerous, and there are millions of believers. It can be seen from this that Zheng Chenggong not only recovered Taiwan, but also drove the immigrants of southern Fujian people to Taiwan, effectively promoted the spread of southern Fujian culture, such as southern Fujian dialect, folk customs, and beliefs, in Taiwan, and promoted the integration and development of culture on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Finally, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Zheng Chenggong's 400th birth, we compatriots on both sides of the strait not only must not forget the history of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, but the most important thing is to jointly carry forward and inherit the spirit of Zheng Chenggong's "success culture", so that the spirit of "success culture" can take root among the compatriots on both sides of the strait, and then promote the spiritual harmony between the compatriots on both sides of the strait.

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Written by Luo Dingjun Taiwanese youth

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