The Research On Zheng Chenggong’s Sea Power Ideology And Practice

Zheng Chenggong was a marine hero who played an essential role on the FarEast international stage in 17th century. During the competition with the with the Western powers in the sea rival, the Zheng’s overseas trade group led by ZhengChenggong with the strong naval forces, defeated the Dutch colonists, the world’s most powerful "established capitalist country".And expelled them out of Taiwan. So that Zheng had deserved to be the dominant in the East Asian Seas, and affecting the Chinese history and the whole world history. Under the broad intersection of Western and Oriental, he summarized the Sea Power Practice of official and folk things in the Ming Dynasty, and set them into culmination. It forms the ZhengChenggong’s Sea Power Ideology. On the guidance of this scientific theory, he was full of energy to do the sea power practice and exploration. It showed that the ancient Chinese civilization and the splendid marine culture, played an actively role to correspond the challenge of world economic integration.Awakening consciousness of sea power from Zheng’s overseas trade group, and the formation and expansion of sea power ideology. They were all interpreted by the Chinese brilliant thought. It should become the important theoretical resources of the sea power strategy, and it always has a special meaning and endless inspiration for our contemporary. We should excavate it deeply, and carry forward for the future Chinese sea power development.