中英雙語話中國歷史名人 第28期:鄭成功

Zheng Chenggong(1624~1662) was a Chinese military leader of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

鄭成功(1624~1662 )，明末清初的軍事領袖。

After the Ming Dynasty fell to the Manchu, Zheng refused Manchu offers of rank and power and launched a military campaign against the new Dynasty in 1659, taking a large force from his base in Fujian Province up the Yangtze River. Initial success turned into failure, but, undaunted, Zheng took Taiwan from the Dutch in 1662 to use as a secure rear base area.

明朝被滿族滅亡之後，鄭成功拒絕滿族人提供的官位和權力，並於1659年發起了反清戰爭。鄭成功率軍從他的基地福建出發沿長江而仁，最初取得了勝利，但是最後還是失敗了。但是,1662年鄭成功勇敢地從荷蘭手中收復了臺灣，把臺灣當成安全的後方基地。

Further glory was cut short by his death later that year.

輝煌的戰績就到此爲止，因爲同年稍後鄭成功去世了。

He became a popular deity and cultural hero to the Chinese, and even the Qing court honoured him as a paragon of loyalty.

對中國人而言，鄭成功成爲一個神明和文化英雄。甚至清廷也尊鄭成功爲忠君模範。

In Japan the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon celebrated him on the stage (Zheng had a Japanese mnther).

日本劇作家近鬆門左衛門也通過舞臺歌頌鄭成功(鄭母是日本人)。