Koxinga

Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功
The mid-17th century painting The Portrait of Koxinga
Prince of Yanping
Reign	May or June 1655 – 23 June 1662
Predecessor	None
Successor	Zheng Jing Zheng Xi (as Lord of Tungtu)
Born	Zheng Sen 27 August 1624 (1624-08-27) Hirado, Hizen Province, Japan
Died	23 June 1662(1662-06-23) (aged 37) Anping, Kingdom of Tungning
Burial	Tomb of Zheng Chenggong (鄭成功墓; in present-day Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian)
Spouse	Dong You, Princess Wu of Chao[1]
Issue	Zheng Jing and nine other sons, four daughters
Posthumous name Prince Wu of Chao (潮武王)
House	Koxinga
Dynasty	Tungning
Father	Zheng Zhilong
Mother	Tagawa Matsu

Zheng Chenggong (Chinese: 鄭成功; pinyin: Zhèng Chénggōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tīⁿ Sêng-kong; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), born Zheng Sen (鄭森) and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (Chinese: 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-sèng-iâ; lit. 'lord granted with royal surname'), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting the Qing dynasty on China's southeastern coast.

Born in Kyushu, Japan to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, Zheng rose through the Ming court via the imperial examinations and was serving as a Guozijian scholar in Nanjing when Beijing fell to rebels in 1644. He swore allegiance to Longwu Emperor, who favored and granted him the royal surname Zhu in 1645, a name he proudly used instead of his native Zheng surname for the rest of his life, hence popularizing his aforementioned honorific name. He was made the Prince of Yanping (延平王) by Yongli Emperor in 1655 for his stern loyalty and numerous anti-Qing campaigns. He was best known for defeating the Dutch East India Company's colonial state on Taiwan, who had been harassing and raiding his maritime supply lines, at the Siege of Fort Zeelandia in 1662^[2][3] and established a dynastic state on the island that continued to exist until 1683. After defeating the Dutch, he died suddenly in 1662 while planning to invade Luzon in retaliation to the ethnic cleansing Fourth Sangley Massacre committed by the Spanish colonists in the Philippines.