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Illustration of Zheng Zhilong and his son Koxinga Personal
details Born 1604 Died 1661 (aged 56–57) Beijing, Qing Empire
Spouse(s) Tagawa Matsu Relations Father: Zheng Shaozu Mother:
Lady Wang Children Zheng Chenggong Tagawa Shichizaemon Religion
Catholic, Mazu (goddess), Marici (Buddhism) Zheng Zhilong
Chinese name Simplified Chinese 郑芝龙 Traditional Chinese 鄭芝龍
Japanese name Kanji 鄭 芝龍 Kana ジェン・ジーロン Hiragana てい しりゅう Western
name Western Nicholas Iquan Gaspard    Early life  Zheng was
born in Nan'an, Fujian, the son of Zheng Shaozu (鄭紹祖), a mid-
level financial official for the Quanzhou government, and Zheng
Shaozu's wife Lady Huang (黃氏). Contemporary biographies tell a
possibly apocryphal story of how when Zheng was a child, he and
his brothers wanted to eat longan fruit.1 They found a fruit
tree in an enclosed courtyard but whose branches hung over the
top of the wall into the street.