| Surname: | House of Koxinga 鄭氏 / Zheng |
| Type: | Royal family in East Asia |
| Coat Of Arms: | Flag of Ming Cheng.svg |
| Caption: | Flag of the Kingdom of Tungning |
| Country: | Chongzhen of Ming (1628) Longwu of Southern Ming (1645) Yongli of Southern Ming (1646) Kingdom of Tungning (1662) |
| Titles: | Prince of Yanping (Chinese: 延平王) King of Tungning (Chinese: 東寧國王)[1] King of Daepeon (Chinese: 大樊國主)[2] King of Taiwan[3] Sia (Chinese: 舍) |
| Founded: | Founder's elevation to Prince of Yanping |
| Founder: | Koxinga |
| Final Ruler: | Zheng Keshuang |
| Deposition: | Defeated by the Qing Dynasty in the Battle of Penghu |
| Ethnicity: | Founder was of Hokkien and Japanese descent |
| Cadet Branches: | Tagawa-shi |
The House of Koxinga or the Zheng dynasty was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan. They played a significant role in the history of East Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly in the seventeenth century.
In Chinese, the dynasty is referred to as:
See also: Kingdom of Tungning. Following the Qing conquest of the Kingdom of Tungning in 1683, the territory's last ruler, Zheng Keshuang, Prince of Yanping, who was a grandson of Koxinga, was taken to Beijing.[4] The Kangxi Emperor granted Zheng a peerage title, that of Duke Hanjun, and inducted him and his descendants into the Plain Red Banner. The family remained in Beijing until 1911 when the Xinhai revolution broke out and the Qing dynasty's fell, after which they moved back to Anhai and Nan'an in southern Fujian, where they remain to this day.
Koxinga's other descendants had the hereditary title of 'Sia'.[5] They are found both on mainland China and in Taiwan, while descendants of Koxinga's brother Shichizaemon live in Japan.
His descendants through one of his sons Zheng Kuan live in Taiwan.[6] One of Koxinga's descendants on mainland China, Zheng Xiaoxuan 鄭曉嵐 the father of Zheng Chouyu 鄭愁予, fought against the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Zheng Chouyu was born in Shandong in mainland China and called himself a "child of the resistance" against Japan and he became a refugee during the war, moving from place to place across China to avoid the Japanese. He moved to Taiwan in 1949 and focuses his work on building stronger ties between Taiwan and mainland China.[7] Zheng Chouyu was born in mainland China, he identified as Chinese and he felt alienated after he was forced to move to Taiwan in 1949 which was previously under Japanese rule and felt strange and foreign to him.[8]
The House of Koxinga produced five rulers of the Kingdom of Tungning, three as reigning monarchs and two as regents.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Title(s) | Reign (Lunar calendar) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功 Zhèng Chénggōng (1624–1662) | Prince of Yanping (延平王) Prince Wu of Chao (潮武王) | 14 June 1661 | 23 June 1662 | ||
| 2 | Zheng Xi 鄭襲 Zhèng Xí (1625–?) | Protector (護理) | 23 June 1662 | 30 November 1662 | ||
| 3 | Zheng Jing 鄭經 Zhèng Jīng (1642–1681) | Prince of Yanping (延平王) Prince Wen of Chao (潮文王) | 30 November 1662 | 17 March 1681 | ||
| 4 | Zheng Kezang 鄭克 Zhèng Kèzāng (1662–1681) | Prince Regent (監國) | 17 March 1681 | 19 March 1681 | ||
| 5 | Zheng Keshuang 鄭克塽 Zhèng Kèshuǎng (1670–1707) | Prince of Yanping (延平王) Duke Hanjun (漢軍公) | 19 March 1681 | 5 September 1683 | ||
