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At 17, Tagawa Matsu was married to Zheng Zhilong (鄭芝龍), a Han Fujianese in his 20s who frequently traded with the Japanese in Nagasaki. She gave birth to Koxinga during a trip with her husband when she was picking seashells on the Senli Beach, Sennai River Bank (川內浦千里濱), Hirado.
The stone beside which she gave birth still exists today as the Koxinga Child Birth Stone Tablet (鄭成功兒誕石碑), which is 80- cm tall and 3- metre wide, and submerged during high tides.
Tagawa Matsu raised Koxinga in Japan by herself until he was seven, and her closeness with her son is evident in some of the accomplishment and decisions Konxinga made in his adult life.
In 1630Events February 22 Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists June 6 Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany June 26 Swedish troops begin to land in Pomerania to aid Protestants July 6 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolph, she was reunited with Koxinga by moving to QuanzhouQuanzhou is a prefecture level city, located in the Fujian province of China. For English speakers, the name is pronounced as "Chwen-Joe". Colleges and Universities [National] Huaqiao University [Public] Quanzhou Normal College [Private] Yang-en Universit, Fujian. In 1646, when Koxinga was away, the city was invaded by the ManchuThe Manchu manju in Manchu; ( pinyin: mnzu) in Chinese, often shortened to ( pinyin: mn)) are an ethnic group who originated in northeastern Manchuria. They conquered the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China unts. Koxinga, upon hearing the invasion, immediately returned to Quanzhou, only to discover that his mother has hang herself in a refusal to surrender to the Manchus. After this, Koxinga developed a growing and powerful antagonism with the Qing Empire.
In the Zheng family geneaology, Tagawa Matsu is recorded under the Sinicized name of Weng-shi. Some Chinese records indicated that this is because after she moved to Quanzhou, an old ironThis article is about metallic iron. For the ironing device, see ironing manganese iron cobalt Fe Ru Full table General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4 , d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3,smith neighbour, Weng Yihuang (翁翌皇), treated this foreigner newcomer like his own daughter.
There are a small amount of Chinese sources mistaking Tagawa Matsu as Weng Yihuang's blood daughter, with a Japanese mother surnamed Tagawa. This is unlikely, as this would necessitate either Weng Yihuang moving to Japan (but he was an ironsmith, neither a sailor nor a trader) or the migration of the Tagawa women back and forth between the two nations (but travelling of women were restricted).
In Koxinga Memorial Temple (鄭成功祠) in Tainan County, Taiwan, Tagawa Matsu's ancestral tablet is placed in a chamber called the Shrine of Queen Dowager Weng (翁太妃祠). The title "queen dowager" is a posthumous title based on the princeship/kingship of Koxinga (Prince-King of Yanping Prefecture) in the Southern Ming Empire.
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