What is Zheng He's voyage to the West?

1405 July 1 1 (the third year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty) Ming Ming Ming Zheng He (formerly known as Ma, in fine print, from Kunyang, Yunnan (now Jinning County, Kunming City)). ) led a huge fleet of more than 240 seagoing ships and 27,400 soldiers and crew, visited more than 30 countries and regions in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, and deepened China's friendly relations with Southeast Asia and East Africa. From Liujiagang, Suzhou, to 1433 (8 years of Xuande in Ming Dynasty), there were 7 voyages. For the last time, in April of eight years, Xuande returned to Guri and died on the ship. The folk story "Popular Romance of Sambo Eunuch's Journey to the West" calls his travel adventure Sambo Eunuch's Journey to the West.

Zheng He has been to more than 30 countries, including Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Zhenla, Guri, Siam, Adan, Tian Fang, Zoufal, Hume and Mugushu, as far away as the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea and Mecca, and may have been to Australia today. Definition of "Western Ocean": in the early Ming Dynasty, Borneo/Brunei was the boundary, the East was called the Oriental Ocean, and the West was called the Western Ocean. Therefore, in the past, it was called the South China Sea and the Southwest China Sea, in the Ming Dynasty it was called the Eastern Ocean and the Western Ocean, and the sea in the Gulf of Siam was called the Rising Sea.

Conditions and preconditions of Zheng He's voyage to the Western Seas;

1. Advanced navigation technology and developed shipbuilding technology leading the world since the Tang and Song Dynasties;

2. The strong economic strength support and strong military strength guarantee of the Ming Empire;

There are rulers like Judy, the Yongle Emperor, and Zheng He, an outstanding navigator and diplomat.

The purpose of Zheng He's voyage to the West:

1. Propagandize the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty (for political purposes);

2. Expanding overseas trade (economic purpose);

3. It is also said that Cheng Zu of the Ming Dynasty was looking for the emperor Wen Jian who might be exiled overseas.

The significance of Zheng He's voyage to the West;

1. shows the prosperity of China's national strength in the early Ming Dynasty. China's navy crisscrossed the west, paid tribute to various countries, and pursued Han and Tang dynasties in the prosperous times;

2. Strengthened the contact between China Ming government and overseas countries, and brought economic benefits to Southeast Asia and western countries;

This is the last grand event in the ancient history of China. Since then, there has been no Zheng He.

4. Because the political purpose of Zheng He's voyage to the West was greater than the economic purpose, all his expenses were supported by the powerful national strength of the Ming Dynasty and did not bring any economic benefits to China. Therefore, after the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, his voyage to the West stopped without strong economic strength to support this huge project.