Luzon Island is the closest large island to Taiwan, and China's Taiwan Island is only separated by three narrow waterways of the Bashi Strait, the Balingtang Strait and the Babyan Strait, and the Batan Islands and the Babuyan Archipelago, two small archipelagos.
Located in the northern part of the Philippine Archipelago and the southern part of Taiwan Island, Luzon Island is the largest, most populous and most economically developed island in the Philippines. Luzon island covers an area of about 104688 square kilometers and has a population of about 46.22 million, accounting for more than half of the total population of the Philippines, and the main cities of the Philippines, Manila and Quezon City, are also on Luzon Island.
The island of Luzon is irregular, with a coastline of 5,000 kilometers and many excellent harbors and harbors. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and the rivers run in a north-south direction. The highest peak on Luzon is Prog Volcano, at 2,930 meters above sea level. Lake Taal is a crater lake with an area of 891 square kilometers, making it the largest lake in the Philippines. The main rivers on Luzon are the Cagayan, Abra, Agno, Pampanga and Bicol rivers.
Most of Luzon has a hot climate and abundant rainfall, making it suitable for crops.
Coconuts are grown on more than 60% of Luzon's arable land, followed by abaca, and neihu and Quezon provinces are the world's largest coconut-producing regions. The production of rice, corn, sugar cane, mango, banana and coconut on Luzon Island ranks first in the Philippines. Luzon's cash crops are also tobacco, and Luzon cigars are famous all over the world.
Luzon Island has Manila, Krabidi, Legazpi and other important cities, Baguio, Tahrak, Batangas and other important cities, more than half of the Philippine industry and most of the road and railway concentrated here. In addition, Luzon island has gold, copper, chromium, iron, manganese and other mineral resources.
The main inhabitants of Luzon are the Tagalu, Iloc, Ifugao, Kankanai, Karinah, Bundu, Yanjian, Ibatan, etc., as well as a few short and dark people in the mountains. There are currently more than 1.2 million Chinese on Luzon Island, most of whom are descendants of Chinese who have migrated to the Philippines from Fujian, Guangdong and other places since the Tang and Song dynasties.
Historically, China has ruled Luzon several times.
In 230 AD, Sun Quan ordered Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to visit Qiuyizhou and Qizhou, Yizhou is today's Taiwan Island, Qizhou is today's Luzon Island, Wei Wen led an army to conquer Taiwan Island and Luzon Island and incorporate them into Sun Wu's territory, after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty lost its jurisdiction over Luzon Island.
From 607 to 610 AD, the Sui Emperor used troops several times to conquer Liuqiu, the present-day islands of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, and then continued to expand to the sea, incorporating the Terracotta State (located on the present-day Malay Peninsula) and Luzon into the Territory of the Great Sui.
In 1285, the Yuan government sent troops to champa (present-day southern Vietnam) to successively recruit the surrounding Nanyang states. In December 1292, when the Yuan Dynasty army set out from Quanzhou and expeditioned to Java, it set up military and political institutions on the islands of Taiwan and Luzon, and once again included Luzon in the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.
In 1405, Zheng He led a fleet to the island of Luzon, and appointed Xu Chailao, the leader of the Jinjiang overseas Chinese, as the governor of Luzon, and took charge of the political, economic, military, and cultural power of Luzon for more than 20 years. During his stay in Luzon, Xu Chailao vigorously carried forward the chinese national culture, practiced benevolent rule, disseminated the advanced technology of agriculture, fishery, industry, commerce and industry in southern Fujian, and vigorously promoted shipbuilding, textile, pottery, and tea cultivation, making outstanding contributions to the social stability, economic development, and literary and artistic prosperity of Luzon.
The establishment and appointment of the Governor of Luzon marks the effective rule and jurisdiction of the Yongle Dynasty over Luzon Island, and in a sense, it can be said that the Viceroy of Luzon, the Old Port Propaganda And Consolation Division, the Burmese Propaganda And Consolation Division, the Great Ancient Thorn Propaganda And Consolation Division, the Diwula Xuanwei Division, the Laos Propaganda And Consolation Division, and the Jiaozhi Cloth Envoy Division were all within the territory of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle years.
After 1571, Luzon was invaded by Spain. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States occupied Luzon and the entire Philippine Archipelago.
During the Spaniard colonization of Luzon, four bloody massacres were waged against the Chinese in Luzon.
The first Luzon Massacre took place in 1603 AD, and more than 23,000 Chinese people were slaughtered in Luzon. The Ming Wanli Emperor regarded the overseas Chinese as pirates like Lin Feng and Lin Daogan, joined hands with the Spanish colonists to encircle and suppress the overseas Chinese, and implemented the policy of exterminating the Chinese in the Nanyang region that "although they are far away, they must be punished".
The second Luzon Massacre took place in 1609, when more than 20,000 Chinese were killed as Chinese merchants protested over-taxation. The Wanli Emperor heard of the "sneaking joy".
The third Luzon Massacre occurred in 1639 AD, the Spaniards forced the Chinese to pay high ID tax and taxes, met with resistance, the Spaniards carried out a third massacre of the Chinese.
The fourth Luzon Massacre occurred in April 1662, Zheng Chenggong threatened to send troops to Luzon, the Spaniards heard the news and immediately launched a mass massacre of the Luzon Chinese, killing tens of thousands. Afterwards, the Spaniards begged Zheng Chenggong for peace and received Zheng Chenggong's forgiveness.
Due to the "sea ban policy" of the Ming Dynasty government and the "closed country" of the Qing government, luzon eventually drifted away from China, which is a very regrettable thing.
Appendix 1, Bashi Strait.
Located between Taiwan Island and the Batan Islands in northern Philippines, the Bashi Strait has an average width of 185 km and is less than 96 km at its narrowest point, and is the strait that divides China and the Philippines, where the first section of the 9-dash line in the South China Sea is a busy waterway.
There is a reef in the middle of the Bashi Strait, with a minimum water depth of only 27 meters, which affects shipping.
Appendix 2, Baringtang Strait.
Located between the Batan Islands and the Babuyan Islands in the northern Philippines, the Balingtang Strait is an important waterway connecting the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with a width of about 82 kilometers, most of which is 700-2000 meters deep, and can navigate all kinds of ships.
There are two shallow water areas in the middle of the Baringtang Strait, with a water depth of less than 200 meters, and in some places the water depth is only 34 meters.
Appendix 3, Babyan Strait.
Located between Luzon and the Babuyan Islands, the Babyan Strait is 217 kilometers long from east to west, 40 kilometers wide from north to south, only 28 kilometers wide at the narrowest point at the western end, with a water depth of more than 200 meters and a water depth of more than 500 meters in the central and eastern regions.
The three straits are wide in front and have a large water depth, which is suitable for ship navigation and submarine underwater activities, and its geographical location is very important.
Appendix 4, Babuyan Islands.
The Babuyan Archipelago is located between the Babiyan Strait and the Balingtang Strait and consists of 24 small islands with a total area of about 582.8 square kilometers, mostly volcanic islands.
Appendix 5, Bataan Islands.
The Bataan Islands, also translated as the Bataan Islands, have a total of 14 small islands with a total area of about 209 square kilometers, and are volcanic islands, located between the Bashi Strait and the Barin Pei Strait.
The strait between the northern Philippines and Taiwan, and its archipelago, is extremely important to China.
Luzon and Taiwan are close at hand and have a link between history and reality.