The Colossal 15th Century Warships Of The Chinese Armada | China Ruled The Waves | Real History
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- In 15th century China, a time when Europe was on its knees from the Black Death, a new regime took charge. One of the first directives from the new Emperor was to use the country's vast resources to build a vast armada of cutting edge ships to spearhead a new vision of world trade.
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Anyway just trading , no intention of colonizing
China colonized lots of places.
When you said trading, you were responsible to show your knowledge, the number of ships, the names of the goods, the tonnages traded, means of payment, length of each trip, etc. Especially the length of each trading trip meant a lot; one trip might have taken many years to complete since loading and unloading of hundreds of ships took a lot of time. Do you know all these?
According to Chinese historians, each Cheng Ho's voyage took only about 2 years.
@@legpol Below is the real story.
Those ships were built by the Manzi who were great navigators and Marco Polo said they did go to Alexandria constantly.
They tried to escape the massacre that the Yellow Race (Chinese of today) started the Great Mongol Khan Temur was kicked out.
Manzi were White Race and their massacre started after the Yellow Race Han people took over.
They, the Yellow race were armed by the Mongols to keep the White Manzi in check. It was them who rebelled against the Mongols because they had the weapons, and when the Mongols left, they started the genocide against the Manzi.
The Manzi that made to Americas in those ships dispersed from California to Chile.
Manzi were the real Chinese and they called themselves CALI and Chali meaning "people of the earth". CHAU meant "earth" in their language hence CHALI. That is where the name Chile comes from, and so is CALIFORNIA and CALI Colombia.
Cheng Ho was not a Yellow Race (Han) man. He was a Eunuch and he left writings in Persian in many areas.
Just about all the White Race Manzi that didn't escape were Massacred.
The fleet was destroyed at a certain point when the Yellow Race got total control of China. That is the reason it stopped, not because the lies told in this video.
I am in Logistic all my lifetime and 72. Why don’t u best do further research
@@bhubestakesoponsatien1143 : Why I need further research since I did not suggest trade?
A couple of things not mentioned was that Cheng Ho was a Muslim and fought a a land in Sri Lanka which he won - given his was a small maritime force - not a bad effort.
The Ming were a great dynasty- weakened by help to Koreans to beat the Japanese in the Imjin war, leaving them vulnerable to Manchu attack.
Chinese history is amazing - great culture with a great history.
All the best from down under
Lewis
Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
The Ming Empire was really weakened by internal revolts more than anything else. The great expense in re-building the Great Wall also drained the imperial coffers severely. At the end, it was the Chinese peasants who brought down the Ming, not the Manchus.
Interesting, it is true there were internal problem’s (rebellion s) however militarily the Manchu’s did end up invading and taking over a greatly weakened Ming. I have read the expenditure and military losses in Korea during Imjin war against Japan was an important factor also.
Unfortunately last real Chinese dynasty before 1911.
Thanks for the reply.
All the best
Lewis
yes, Zheng He was a Muslim, and not Han Chinese. he was described as colored eyed (meaning not Far East Asian).
His navigational skills are that of Muslim culture, and shipbuilding technology is also of Muslim.
Not Chinese. that's why China lost all it's navigation skill and shipbuilding tech after Zheng He's death.
鄭和霸佔了斯里蘭卡的一塊土地？真的嗎？
Thanks David v interesting
That magical Chinese map shows that noot only Chinese discovered Americas but went around it and mapped even northern pass over canada, what an accomplishment 😮😮😮
The "Magical Chinese Map" showed 600 tears ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. The Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Cheng Ho armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel).
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Cheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
@@legpolYour low culture scares us😂
@@alexhu5491 : It was reported by Chinese historians that Zheng He and his 27,670 troops visited foreign countries 7 times. These many men ate and slept 7 times in each country for many days but they did nothing and said nothing and then left. This was the Chinese high culture.
@@legpolThis is the difference between Western culture and Western culture, the Chinese are not pirates, they prefer to trade
@@legpol Thanks to ZhengHe, China got 38 vassals in South East Asia, India, Middle East, Africa, every year these vassals pay tribute to the Chinese empire
I think China found Australia long before Britian did
I believe you are right check out Taoist statue found in bottle tree in North territory.
Lewis
As a Chinese, there is no evidence that Zheng He discovered Australia. Although Zheng He was nearly a hundred years earlier than Columbus, his purpose was to promote the country's prestige, not to seize colonies and conduct scientific exploration, so the West took the lead in completing the great voyage. Created great geographical discoveries.
@@koganinja100
It appears this Taoist statue of Shou Lao was dug up in 1879. Currently it is on display in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Fascinating.
Thanks Mingpoyang didn’t realise this statue was at the powerhouse museum- will have to check it out.
All the best
Lewis
Doesn’t matter who’s been here sight seeing in the past, the Egyptians could have been here in the past.. what matters is who colonised it and transform the place. That is the British my friend
People
Left a reply about Australia however seems to have disappeared- crux of it was that a Daoist statue was found inside a Boab (bottle tree was hit by chainsaw statue was made of bronze) tree from memory near Darwin believed to have been from Cheng Ho’s fleet. Our Aboriginal people in Northern Territory were known to trade using Chinese coins and have stories of Chinese visiting. The coins maybe from subsequent trading with Indonesians re abalone.
As an Australian I have no doubt Cheng Ho’s fleet visited our country.
A very interesting and important part of our history.
Chinese have been a great part of our history even during colonial gold rush etc.
All the best from down under.
Lewis
Sydney
Australia
🇦🇺 ❤️🇹🇼🇨🇳
That statue was very probably from the Phoenicians who were the ancestors of the Maori.
Interesting however the statue has been identified as Taoist and was made I believe of bronze which as far as I know the Polynesians did not use for statues.
However thanks for the reply.
All the best
Lewis
Jen , you forgot abt Astern & mid ' s rottan fishermen basket as ballasting anchoraged .Its parachuting anchoraged in shape ! 😶
In Nanjing in the shipyards of the Ming Empire, they found a massive oar that could only fit the massive ships that had 2000 men in it. I was there and saw it. Someday they will find porcelain from shipwrecks in places to prove this. When the palace burned down, the Emperor ordered that no more large fleets would sail, and the records were destroyed.
China should use a modern magnetic instrument to sweep the Yangtze River to find iron accessaries such as anchors since the ships were reported to have been burnt on the river instead of looking for shipwrecks.
Someone posted dat a huge rudder was found in the Yangtze; big enuf to steer such ships
@@kimpark283 : This rudder also proved that ALL Zheng He's ships survived. Where are they? Chinese built the Great Wall. It survived for you to see. Why we see no Zheng He surviving ships?
So glad you are covering Zhang He's fleet on your channel
With that mighty fleet China not only could have ruled the waves--it could have conquered many lands. But that was not the Chinese aim. Primarily it was interested in establishing friendly relations with its neighbors and had no interest in conquest. A nation hell-bent on conquest does not build 10,000 mile defensive walls.
To establish friendly relations with its neighbours, Zheng He must have signed many treaties with the countries he had visited. Did any body read one? If no one had, how do we know it was only an empty claim? And Zheng He's 7 visits never happened, were written as a novel.
@@legpolI shouldn't have said dat your comments were inane-- the correct word was insane.
Ancient China was the heart of Asia, it had no need to conquer anyone, all the kingdoms of Asia paid tribute every year and sent delegations
@@danielzhang1916 : The history you narrated was not true. It was only empty claims and claims. 自吹自擂。The true history was hidden behind this: 朕連年南征北伐，殺人無數，拓地無數。It was being repeated today under Xi Jinping the present day emperor.
Absolutely fantastic video! Thanks for sharing!
The "Magical Chinese Map" showed 600 years ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. The Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Cheng Ho armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel).
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Cheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
@@legpolmore evidence dat u live in a self made world dat is populated by you alone. Again, u use dat non word of proofing, proving dat it wasn't a typo, and your literacy rate is as bad as your history knowledge
Absolutely great!
Junk sails could be raised and lowered on the deck. Safer for sailors as Europeans had to crawl up the masts to take in sails in severe storms.
a part of Chinese history ignored by the West
我相信鄭和下西洋乃是小說。我們可從directive 一事推論，而得小說結論。 英文說：One of the first directives from the new Emperor was to use the country's vast resources to build a vast armada。要能寫出此字，我們必須先讀到皇帝寫的書面聖旨。請問，有誰讀了？
Of course, as they are totally discombobulated by and culture greater than their barbaric ones
@@kimpark283: Yes, a novel was turned into a history by dumb historians in confusion.
The West has ignored their own history forever, it was hardly taught 60 years ago. For the few the internet can introduce you to so much more history than excellent libraries...
I'm here researching
Great stuff.
When Zheng He went to a country, he must first arrive at the sea shore. To meet any local kings, he must first write a letter to the local government announcing his intention. These letters are truly Great Stuff. Did you mean you have some of them?
If Polynesia can be populated i cannot see how the Chinese cannot sail across the Pacific or the Indian oceans.
@RUHappyATM : The Chinese sailing story started from shipbuilding. China reported (I read the Chinese book) that the ships were as large as a football field and 4 stories tall. And they built 317 ships within 3 years, about a few days a ship. Is such a report believable?
@@legpol With 30,000+ workers?
@@gaborszegedy1673 : Of course, you are welcome to say so since the Zheng He story is flexible. Any body is welcome to add an edition. One of the questions is: where are the ships today? (There are more questions.)
@@legpolfrom numerous reliable , unbiased sources, yes ,they are, and far more reliable than your biased drivel
Evidence suggests the Chinese fleet visited northern Australia after travelling south through Asia. The fleet could navigate using both latitude and longitude and grew fruit trees on board to combat scurvy.
There is a scaled down model of a Chinese-style huge junk in a historical theme park south of Bangkok in Thailand.
China had contact and trade with the Indonesian kingdoms for centuries, they explored all over Asia
Its Real good.
The "Magical Chinese Map" showed that, 600 years ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. The Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Zheng He armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel). We have none of all these.
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Zheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
@@legpolit appears dat all the other posters' comments are fact backed, compared to your personal beliefs dat are backed by your strange imagination
Southeast Asia and South Asia already had a vast maritime trading network that connected with Africa and the Middle East. The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD) came late to the party and paraded a giant fleet in an already existing route. These countries didn't need to be "discovered" because they already knew each other, and traded with each other. Maybe that's why the Ming Dynasty later cancelled the expeditions because they didn't discovery anything new and it was a waste of resources.
China was sailing long before the Ming dynasty, they had contact and trade all over Asia, the expeditions were cancelled because China turned to isolation, nothing to do with "waste of resources" or whatever, so many people try to diminish what ancient China did
Before 13th Century, the Portuguese started concurring Africa and eventually came to East Africa, Ancient China and Arabic already dominated the ocean that their ships can reach including East Africa.... that's why Magellan could get the tracer of India from people in East Africa coast.
In fact the Mediterranean had been well aware of China and India as they've been trading for centuries... over the land and sea.
Over the years, Arabic aimed for spices and porcelain that needed in Mediterranean Sea and Europe Continents while China is the Exporters or the middleman due to large coverage of Overseas Chinese all over that region...
Very few people know Arabic Merchants have great influence in China during Song and Yuen dynasty, they were assigned with official positions and their own forces units
But Ming dynasty's downgrade Arabic may had jeopardised the trade relationship....Thus no positive feedbacks after 7 voyages performed by Cheng Hu
With the super power of the oversea Chinese superseded by the Western powers. The Arabic and Chinese have to step down from the stage of Sea transportation.
There was Marco Polo and his trips to Cathay to meet Kublai Khan of course.
This outght to be good 😊
The "Magical Chinese Map" showed 600 years ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. I believe that the Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Zheng He armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel).
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Zheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
From your intelligence free and biased posts you've proven dat wot you believe is irrelevant to reality, Little Big Man....
@@kimpark283 : What reality? A dumb country?
China invented gunpowder.
And many more things.
..and the magnetic compass required for navigation !
@@gaborszegedy1673 4 ancient great inventions :
😁Gun powder
😁Ship navigational compass
😁Paper
😁Printing
Much more than that-- a British scholar declared dat "more than half of the inventions that power modern society are Chinese "
@@kimpark283 Yes, his name was Joseph Needlham ! There is tons of info on him on RUclips.
Heard this is good
MAFFIA OPERATION BY PROFESSOR LAMBERT.
Zheng He was a Buddhist. The Buddhist scriptures he copied in 2015 were sold at a high price of 14.02 million US dollars at Sotheby's auction a few years ago. Each volume of this "Da Ming Kaishu Imperial Buddhist Scripture" is 33×24 cm in size and was provided by a Japanese collector. The collection is inscribed with "Da Ming Dynasty eunuch Zheng He, Dharma name Fu Jixiang".
A video about China
First second: Shakuhachi starts playing 🪈
And more gaslighting from westerners to deny the superb creativity of us Chinese, bulkhead shipping was invented by us as shown here. This was then taken by the English, Dutch etc to build their own fleets, without bulkheads they would never ever had the empires they had.
this is one history where it shows that China ruled the south china sea and that no other countries can claim those islands! haha
Zheng He's voyages directly promoted the Islamization of Malaysia and Indonesia (using the influence of the Ming Dynasty to spread Islam). This is the greatest impact, the others are insignificant to world history.
19 Robert Morrison, a British missionary in Kyoto, wrote in "A Brief History of Foreign Countries": "In the auction of the islands, Yawa was the most expensive, and it was called Little Java in ancient times... In the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, there was a teacher named Hui Hui (referring to Zheng He). ) led a large army to forcefully subjugate the native people, causing them to abandon their idols and worship the Lord. The history of Islam also said: "The Chinese Muslims left their mark on the Islam of East Java...to this day, their descendants are different in appearance from the locals." Muslims.” Javanese folk still pass down the traditional legend of Zheng He’s missionary work here.
所說 Zheng He's voyages directly promoted the Islamization of Malaysia，必定是，鄭和寫了很多文章宣傳伊斯蘭教。而今人仍然能讀到他的文章。對嗎？
Zheng He was a Buddhist. The Buddhist scriptures he copied in 2015 were sold at a high price of 14.02 million US dollars at Sotheby's auction a few years ago. Each volume of this "Da Ming Kaishu Imperial Buddhist Scripture" is 33×24 cm in size and was provided by a Japanese collector. The collection is inscribed with "Da Ming Dynasty eunuch Zheng He, Dharma name Fu Jixiang".
@@user-lx5qf3rd2h : Very good. But Zheng He must have signed many treaties with foreign governments in his 7 visits to each country. Were these treaties being sold by foreign governments? Zheng He must have written and published many academic papers. Were they being sold somewhere?
@@legpol Many of China's historical documents and cultural relics should be in the hands of the Japanese.
@@user-lx5qf3rd2h : It is possible. But the documents must bear the name of the country Zheng He had visited since they were treaties or agreements signed with a country.
Real History, you claimed that "One of the first directives from the new Emperor was to use the country's vast resources to build a vast armada of cutting edge ships to spearhead a new vision of world trade. "---- I believe you were NOT talking real history because no body had seen the "directive" given by the emperor. To be real history, you must show us the directive.
Wot u believe has no basis in reality
That was known as the Friendship Fleet, notwithstanding the enormous cost, was only interested in peaceful ties and commerce, not conquest, colonization, exploitation, or slave trade. China is now coming back to prominence and her interest is basically the same.
If it was a Friendship Fleet, Zheng He must have signed many treaties with the countries he had visited. Did any body read one? If no one had, how do we know it was only an empty claim? And Zheng He's 7 visits never happened, were written as a novel.
@@legpol What is the title of this novel? Who is the author? I would like to read it. Have you read it?
@@cosmicdancer ：The title of the novel is 瀛涯勝覽，作者名「馬歡」。Yes, I have read it. 你讀時，請注意作者馬歡寫的是63艘船。卻被中國歷史學家改成幾百艘。
@@legpol Wikipedia said the author only participated in three of the seven voyages. Perhaps the fleets were larger in the other expeditions. What percentage of the novel do you think is based on historical facts? I understand there may be 2 other books on the same subject, 西洋番國志 and 星槎勝覽, what do you know of them? Do you have a background in Chinese History?
@@cosmicdancer : If you read the 瀛涯勝覽 carefully ，you will see 宣德五年，蒙聖廷命差內官太監鄭和等往各番國開讀賞賜sentence. 宣德五年was the year of the 7th voyage. That is, 馬歡was still with Zheng He in the 7th voyage according to 瀛涯勝覽. This 7th voyage contradicted the Wikipedia's 3 voyages, which must have been written by Chinese historians. In short, there are many contradictions. I got my disbelief from those contradictions.
It takes balls to do what Zheng did
I am sorry I don't believe in Zheng He's voyages. Why? it is because we don't have his ships today. If his voyages were history, his ships must have survived to this day for us to see. Besides ships (1), his visits to foreign governments must have produced many documents(2); he himself must have written many papers (3) for us to read. The absence of the 3 tells that his voyages never happened in reality; but only reported to have happened in a novel.
Zheng he don’t have balls
Between 29 Palms and Amboy i dicovered a long causeway up onto a platform on the side of a mountain. On the platform is a large stone throne with a rectangular stone behind it that looked just like a sacraficial alter. On the sides of the stone are petroglyphs that look like those found in central Nevada. I reported it to an archeologist 4 years ago. The area is now a closed state park and not a word has been said about it. It doesnt fit their model.
Interesting!!!
Those ships were built by the Manzi who were great navigators and Marco Polo said they did go to Alexandria constantly.
They tried to escape the massacre that the Yellow Race (Chinese of today) started the Great Mongol Khan Temur was kicked out.
Manzi were White Race and their massacre started after the Yellow Race Han people took over.
They, the Yellow race were armed by the Mongols to keep the White Manzi in check. It was them who rebelled against the Mongols because they had the weapons, and when the Mongols left, they started the genocide against the Manzi.
The Manzi that made to Americas in those ships dispersed from California to Chile.
Manzi were the real Chinese and they called themselves CALI and Chali meaning "people of the earth". CHAU meant "earth" in their language hence CHALI. That is where the name Chile comes from, and so is CALIFORNIA and CALI Colombia.
Cheng Ho was not a Yellow Race (Han) man. He was a Eunuch and he left writings in Persian in many areas.
Just about all the White Race Manzi that didn't escape were Massacred.
The fleet was destroyed at a certain point when the Yellow Race got total control of China. That is the reason it stopped, not because the lies told in this video.
This channel is correct that China is the giant
of the sea with the first sea voyage in 1502 during the Ming
Dynasty,
Emperor Zhu Di.
明王朝，朱棣，永樂年間15O2年派鄭和第一次下西洋。明朝共七次出海洋。
You are wrong.
It's not 1502, but rather, it's early 15th century or early 1400s.
@@user-ks3bh1xe5q The "Magical Chinese Map" showed 600 years ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. I believe that the Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Zheng He armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel).
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Zheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
Zheng He died in 1433.
Get your information right.
@@user-ks3bh1xe5q ：Zheng He's death date and burial location were not recorded by his interpreter Ma Huan （馬歡）in his book 瀛涯勝覽。Such an absence is very significant in the truthfulness of the book 瀛涯勝覽。It might be just a novel, not a history. Yet, we were all fooled by the historians who sold us the novel 瀛涯勝覽 as a history.
@user-fo2uh4rm5c: 你這裡沒說船是如何來的。我讀的是：永樂帝一登基就下令造船。永樂三年就造成317艘。每兩三天就是一艘。鄭和就馬上出發。由於太快，我就不信是真的，全是假的。我再多讀，發現更多的假。
Cheng Ho is not mysterious outside China. He is known in the West, at least to academics.
Did Cheng Ho ever write letters to the countries he had visited? Or did he publish any academic papers? A man reported to be in his position mush have published a lot. Namely 著作等身。
@@legpoldid u ever make it out of elementary school?
Do some research about chola dynasty habibi the real GOT
As a Chinese, I hope you will not believe that Zheng He is a Muslim. As a senior official of the Ming Empire, Zheng He was first a Confucian scholar, then a Buddhist, a Taoist, and he would also believe in Islam as needed. In fact, it is a bit strange for Chinese people to only believe in one religion. If this god does not work, just find another god to pray to.
@user-vk6rI5cs3d: I do not believe Zheng He's voyages were history. In every respect, they were a novel. I have studied his voyages extensively which qualified me to say so. For instance, I even know the number of days taken by each voyage.
Muslims always falsify history. Zheng He was a Buddhist. The Buddhist scriptures he copied in 2015 were sold at a high price of 14.02 million US dollars at Sotheby's auction a few years ago. Each volume of this "Da Ming Kaishu Imperial Buddhist Scripture" is 33×24 cm in size and was provided by a Japanese collector. The collection is inscribed with "Da Ming Dynasty eunuch Zheng He, Dharma name Fu Jixiang".
Zheng He was a Buddhist. The Buddhist scriptures he copied in 2015 were sold at a high price of 14.02 million US dollars at Sotheby's auction a few years ago. Each volume of this "Da Ming Kaishu Imperial Buddhist Scripture" is 33×24 cm in size and was provided by a Japanese collector. The collection is inscribed with "Da Ming Dynasty eunuch Zheng He, Dharma name Fu Jixiang".
@@user-lx5qf3rd2h : I am suspicious of the authenticity of the copies. How would we know the copy was not faked by the Japanese? To avoid being cheated by copies, I want a copy from a country Zheng He had visited. Zheng had visited dozens of countries 7 times. These countries must have signed many treaties with Zheng He. If these countries were selling their copies, I will be assured.
@@legpol Zen Master Daoyan gave Zheng He the Bodhisattva precepts. Zheng He once funded the printing of the Buddhist sutra "The Sutra of Marichi" in the name of Fu Jixiang and distributed it to various temples. He specially asked Zen Master Daoyan to write a postscript before the book.
Many Buddhist sutras printed by Zheng He are still preserved in libraries in Beijing and Kunming, Yunnan. Now let's take the "The Sutra of Marichi" and Volume 7 of "The Upasaka Precepts Sutra" as examples. The former has a postscript written by Zen Master Daoyan, and the latter has a postscript written by Zheng He himself. Zheng He also donated money to print 5,480 copies of the "Lotus Sutra" and distributed them to all directions. 郑和在自己刊刻的《佛说优婆塞戒经》前，所写跋文如下：
大明国奉佛信官内官监太监郑和，法名速南叱释，即福吉祥，切念生逢盛世，幸遇明时。谢天地覆载，日月照临，感皇上厚德，父母生成。累蒙圣恩，前往西洋等处公干。率领官军宝船，经由海洋，托赖佛天护持，往回有庆经置无虞，常怀报答之心。于是施财，陆续印造大藏尊经，舍入名山，流通读诵。伏愿皇图永固，帝道遐昌。凡奉命于四方，尝叨恩于庇佑。次冀身安心乐，福广寿长。忏除曩劫之态，永享现生之福。出入起居，吉祥如意。四恩等报，三有齐资，法畀群生，同成善果。今开陆续成造大藏尊经，计十一藏。
Read the book “1421” by an ex submarine commander.
One word will prove 1421 to be a novel, return. 1421 has no ships returning while the Chinese book has. The Chinese book reported that all the ships under Zheng He returned to Nanjing in less than 3 years without any absent; this return has ruled out any other ships going to Italy, while the 1421 did not report any ships returned to Nanjing. Where did the ships in 1421 go after visiting Italy?
China is finally rule the world with peace and prosperity for all humanity.
The "Magical Chinese Map" showed that, 600 years ago the Chinese had known the earth was spherical. I don't believe so. I believe that the Chinese had only learned the spherical earth in the 19th or late 18th century.
And there are other factors proofing that the Zheng He armada to be a novel. One was the absence of his ships today. Others were the absence of his correspondence with countries he visited, the absence of many contracts he signed, of the writings he wrote, the speeches given to his troops (27,670 personnel).
One fatal factor was the returning to Nanjing. Zheng's ships were all sail ships and yet they went up the Yangtze River to Nanjing 7 times. How could this up-river sailing be history?
@@legpolu just keep repeating your groundless drivel. Again wot an insane person believes is irrelevant, to say the least ...
@@kimpark283 : You have attacked my person many times. You have no history to show.
*hundreds of years earlier from the 12th - 14th century the visayan armada frequently crossed the WPS to china ... the imperial chinese finally saw and learned how to build large seafaring ships that can cross the sea after they have seen visayan tribesmen from the philippines on their large sailing ships anchored in deeper waters from their coast (the Pi-she yah then transfers to rafts) when they raided the chinese coastlands*
The chinese ships in the Song dynasty had already implemented many unique advanced technologies unknown to the rest of the world.
@@yankw5187 hahaha they are so weak they lost to the mongols that pave the way to china's 1000 yr humilation.....
@@yankw5187 hahaha song dynasty was so weak they lost to the mongols..... the defeat started china's 1000 yr humiliation...
How can filipino buildships during time when philippine archipelago has no inhabitant yet . It was a Chinese R and D place filipinos were not evolved yet from wide eyed primate called Tarsirs . THE PRESENT FILIPINOS were the product of intermarriage of ethnic Chinese, Spanish and Arabs.
I'll never understand how China went from this - a superpower that invented gunpowder, to becoming the France of the east (bad at war) for the last 150 years.
It is easy to understand as soon as you find out that the Zheng He voyages is a novel.
@@legpolsays the nutbar ...
If u know how to read history books, then dat is a good starting point
@@kimpark283 : The Zheng He voyages is not a history book. It is a novel. You, Xi Jinping, and many dumb historians don't know how to read novels.
The history of the great Ming Dynasty naval fleets in the first two decades of the 1400s entered the books of legend. Out of the legends came myth and some nonsense about what these ships looked like.
The difficulty for historians is that the Ming government went to great pains to burn all paper documentation, records, drawings, anything and everything. By today's standards this is an extraordinary crime.
This documentary gets it right. The Ming sea-going naval ships were large scale versions of the Song Dynasty tried-and-true sea junk. Even the Song junks were large enough to serve as invasion troop carriers to the two, failed Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281.
There have been nonsensical imaginings of the Ming ships as gigantic barges or giant catamarans. Fun imagination, but incorrect.
Why no foreigners wrote about Zheng He's ships? They saw the un-usual ships coming and going 7 times with 27,670 sailors going to town sightseeing. Why there were no foreign writings?
@@legpol Excellent question. Looks like we'll never know. Perhaps Ming admiral Zheng He prohibited foreigners from sketching, drawing, or painting images of the Ming ships. True, it could have been done indoors in secret from the memory of observers but it looks like no one did so. That will remain a mystery. Many of the nations that the Ming fleet visited were literate countries with deep histories of art, paintings, sculpture, and more. But they seemed to lack true historians even though the vocation of scribe existed. Unfortunately photography would not be invented for another four hundred plus years.
@@jeffyoung60 ：Your answer that "Perhaps Ming admiral Zheng He prohibited foreigners from sketching" could be one. My answer will be: Zheng He's voyages never happened. They were a novel written for exclusive consumption by the Chinese audience.
@@legpoli don't understand why mental patients like yourself are granted internet access ,to spew forth their insanity
Zhen He could be the nephew who preferred to explore the world than be an emperor. So he orchestrated the palace coup claim gone blind and disappeared without a trace but claimed to had been killed.
Get your visas before embarking on your voyage.
"Real History"
I'll keep my balls, thanks!
Loyalty and sacrifice to show it is overrated.
Think that they are still using them today 😂
@bazzer621: What did you mean by "them" ? If you meant "ships", then you will be disappointed greatly. No Zheng He's ships survived. This total deaths of his ships proofed that there were not any in history. It was all a novel sold to us as history.
@@legpol Everything Chinese is outdated! They live in a fantasy world where they are world leaders 😂 Even their newest ships are a total disaster!
"proofed" again? Your illiteracy is only matched by your lunacy
What's so irritating about films like these (and others) is, that the level of commentation never leaves the scope of western imperialism and it's homegrown hybris ("Rule Britannia etc.." and Prof.Lamberts platitudes) instead of trying to understand an historic event like this on its own terms and in its own historic conditions. That is the real adventure in my mind, besides trying to keep afloat on a rebuild..
That was deffenately not a warship armada. Otherwise rhe chinese had already clolonised those costs.
Could it be that the Ming wasn't into colonization?
@@RUHappyATM沒有，中國從沒有進行任何殖民，周圍陸地相鄰國家，諸如朝鮮，越南都是獨立國家，但是屬於中國藩屬國，直到地理大發現歐洲人殖民，越南就變為了法國的殖民地，中國也在同時期變為半殖民地
@@RUHappyATM , Ming wasnt white enough.
The Chinese Zheng He story was just a novel but sold to us as a history. Since it was a novel it could not have colonised anything.
@@user-lz1sn8mz3r : 鄭和下西洋乃是小說，不是歷史。當然不能殖民。如果是歷史，鄭和的船，書信，契約，文章著作等文件就會留下，我們就會看到。
Actually there is some questionable areas on the west coast of america in northern California and Oregon of pre Columbus but the powers to be want whats being told to be right that Columbus discovered america but he didnt.
Yep. They don't acknowledge the Viking ships at the eastern areas of the US either. Not to mention the evidence of Mansa Musa of Mali empire.
Columbus discovered some islands. But 500 years before vikings settled in eastern Canada. It's possible the Chinese made it to the west coast. Only the church thought the world was flat.
@@graham2631the church believing the earth was flat is a myth. Where you been?
@@LadyCoyKoiActually, most historians do recognize the Viking landings....and many acknowledge possible Chinese and Japanese landings along the west coast ....... Polynesian landings also.
And have fine so for quite some time now. Where you been?
Actually the current lack of education in mainstream history narrative means you are all prone to lie, because you have been lied, not because you are a liar. Liars are the mainstream current country narratives.
Columbus is an alias, his name is JOAN COLOM I BERTRAN, from the same CATALAN nation like CABOT,DRAGÓ, and all founders of the Companies. By the way, the Companies, the Catalan ones, were created in 14 century, exactly the same ones that the levant company took and later the US mariners
For the record Colombus never reach north america only the carribean islands. Shame on you US Americans.
We Filipinos Consider them our enemy.....
Those ships were built by the Manzi who were great navigators and Marco Polo said they did go to Alexandria constantly.
They tried to escape the massacre that the Yellow Race (Chinese of today) started the Great Mongol Khan Temur was kicked out.
Manzi were White Race and their massacre started after the Yellow Race Han people took over.
They, the Yellow race were armed by the Mongols to keep the White Manzi in check. It was them who rebelled against the Mongols because they had the weapons, and when the Mongols left, they started the genocide against the Manzi.
The Manzi that made to Americas in those ships dispersed from California to Chile.
Manzi were the real Chinese and they called themselves CALI and Chali meaning "people of the earth". CHAU meant "earth" in their language hence CHALI. That is where the name Chile comes from, and so is CALIFORNIA and CALI Colombia.
Cheng Ho was not a Yellow Race (Han) man. He was a Eunuch and he left writings in Persian in many areas.
Just about all the White Race Manzi that didn't escape were Massacred.
The fleet was destroyed at a certain point when the Yellow Race got total control of China. That is the reason it stopped, not because the lies told in this video.
WEIRD PEOPLE
Few people know that Zheng He also sailed these ships to the moon and created a settlement there way before Neil Armstrong landed.
Few people are aware Admiral Zheng He sailed the Great Treasure Fleet to Alpha Centauri where he established the first Panda Express.😉
@@PeteHagen-sm4tn Few people know that Zheng He sailed these ships to the center of the earth, found dinosaurs there, and brought them back to the surface, thus establishing the Mesozoic Era.
Even fewer people know that he then wrote a book about his journey to the center of the earth, which was improperly credited to Jules Verne because of a mistranslation.
Only a handful of people know that Zheng He created genetics, so that he could create a lineage eventually leading to the birth of American legend Brendan Fraser, so that he could star in a movie based on the aforementioned book.
Yes they did.
The reason?
They wanted to make sure the legend of Chang E is real!
Even today, if you stare hard enough you can see the Jade Rabbit on the moon.
Strewth, Mate.
They were real.
Those ships were built by the Manzi who were great navigators and Marco Polo said they did go to Alexandria constantly.
They tried to escape the massacre that the Yellow Race (Chinese of today) started the Great Mongol Khan Temur was kicked out.
Manzi were White Race and their massacre started after the Yellow Race Han people took over.
They, the Yellow race were armed by the Mongols to keep the White Manzi in check. It was them who rebelled against the Mongols because they had the weapons, and when the Mongols left, they started the genocide against the Manzi.
The Manzi that made to Americas in those ships dispersed from California to Chile.
Manzi were the real Chinese and they called themselves CALI and Chali meaning "people of the earth". CHAU meant "earth" in their language hence CHALI. That is where the name Chile comes from, and so is CALIFORNIA and CALI Colombia.
Cheng Ho was not a Yellow Race (Han) man. He was a Eunuch and he left writings in Persian in many areas.
Just about all the White Race Manzi that didn't escape were Massacred.
The fleet was destroyed at a certain point when the Yellow Race got total control of China. That is the reason it stopped, not because the lies told in this video.
@@neloglass
Yeah, the Yellow race came from the Black race.
LMAO.
I hate these dumb modern expeditions retracing steps. Just give us the original story.
The original story is in Chinese titled 瀛涯勝覽。It has not been translated to English as far as I know. After I have read it, I was convinced that it is a novel, not a history.
This narrative is very superficial.
Even high school history textbooks in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia provide more substantive information.
I am sure the information provided by those schools does not have the information on "meeting", where and how Zheng He met local kings. You see, Zheng He could only reach the sea shore while local governments were all located many miles inland. The distance was a big barrier between Zheng He and local kings. When this very information (on where and how) was not provided, we are entitled to doubt the facf whether there was any meeting at all.
@@legpolmore groundless drivel from an angry Manchu
South China Sea is the China teritorial.
BS
the exact kind of ships that would disintegrate in the open seas. that is why no relics of any kind were found for this overhyped ships.
Apparently a Ming Emperor turned all his great ships into bonfires. Ming Emperors were well known for doing crazy things.
@@DelAoc It's not really the emperor's call. It's those rich and powerful classes and the officials representing them who did that. The reason, even though the trade was extremely profitable over the 7 voyages, the wealth mainly went to the emperor and royal families. These rich and powerful class were so pissed. They dared not to challenge Zhu Di. But after Zhu Di and his son died, the emperor's position was getting weak, had to make the compromise. That's what happened.
Size of the wooden ships has been debunked. You need lots of iron bracing to make large wooden ships. Rest of story is possibly exaggerated but might be true.
can you post the source
@@yunko9369 I recall Kroum Batchvarov, naval historian, mentioning it someplace. I also ran across this somewhere in reading about the first iron battleships. Can't locate these sources, but you can see the problem is referred to in this Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_wooden_ships
@gs547: If something was exaggerated, it might be false also. I believe I have found the Zheng He voyages were exaggerated too much to be true. First, the shipbuilding speed was too fast, 3 days per ship. Was this speed false?
@@yunko9369 ruclips.net/video/KFHXuOhJ4Ow/видео.html
@@legpolthe only things exaggerated and false are you knowledge and comments
Taifun is a Japanese word.
japan have no culture or langauge, sushi kimono Katana Sumo karate Cherry blossom orgami Bonsai tree Zen garden your infrastructure, music instrument, festival's all copied from china
Do you mean Typhoon?
If so, Wiki thinks its origin is from the Chinese.
The Japanese copied so many things from Chine and the Chinese language still used today.
95% of the the written Japanese language is Chinese. Have a nice day....
Xi Jinping is reviving the Han Dynasty (202BC - 220AD) established Silk Road and Ming Dynasty Zheng He’s Seven Voyages (the Maritime Silk Road) in his Belt and Road Initiative. Great China ❤❤❤
@Hoo88846 : In 2018 Xi Jinping told the Filipinos that Zheng He had done peaceful visits to the Philippines. Unfortunately, the famous Filipino chief Judge Antonio Carpio denied the visits saying Zheng He never came to his country. Xi had nothing to say in return implying he lied. If a Chinese national leader lied in Zheng He, could we suspect that all the Zheng He saga was made up with lies?
@@legpol Lol… you know why Xi Jinping just laughed? He was laughing at the lies of the Filipinos. There are historical records in Malaysia and in East African countries that recorded this Admiral Zheng He’s saga. They even built temples in many Southeast Asian countries to commemorate the Zheng He saga. Given Philippines’ severe corrupt government and association with USA the empire of lies and fake news, it’s not surprising for Filipinos to lie about Chinese history. It’s nothing new that American CIA bots working in Philippines and India, and Japanese funded 1450 troll armies spam all over the internet with lies about Chinese culture, history and anything that has to do with China. Xi Jinping just met one such Filipino liar? I meet tons on a daily basis. 😆. Google search for “Zheng He’s Malacca” and see how many temples in Southeast Asia are built in his name to commemorate his trips.
Lol… you know why Xi Jinping just laughed? He was laughing at the lies of the Filipinos. There are historical records in Malaysia and in East African countries that recorded this Admiral Zheng He’s saga. They even built temples in many Southeast Asian countries to commemorate the Zheng He saga. Given Philippines’ severe corrupt government and association with USA the empire of lies and fake news, it’s not surprising for Filipinos to lie about Chinese history. It’s nothing new that American CIA bots working in Philippines and India, and Japanese funded 1450 troll armies spam all over the internet with lies about Chinese culture, history and anything that has to do with China. Xi Jinping just met one such Filipino liar? I meet tons on a daily basis. 😆. Google search for “Zheng He’s Malacca” and see how many temples in Southeast Asia are built in his name to commemorate his trips.
RUclips search for “Zheng He’s Seven Voyages” and you can find tons of documentaries done by historians on his saga. It’s funny pinoys make up this lie and claim Xi Jinping laughing. Xi was laughing at pinoys’ dishonesty and blatant historical revisionism. 😆😆😆
Lol… you know why Xi Jinping just laughed? He was laughing at the lies of the Filipinos. There are historical records in Malaysia and in East African countries that recorded this Admiral Zheng He’s saga. They even built temples in many Southeast Asian countries to commemorate the Zheng He saga. Given Philippines’ severe corrupt government and association with USA the empire of lies and fake news, it’s not surprising for Filipinos to lie about Chinese history. It’s nothing new that American CIA bots working in Philippines and India, and Japanese funded 1450 troll armies spam all over the internet with lies about Chinese culture, history and anything that has to do with China. Xi Jinping just met one such Filipino liar? I meet tons on a daily basis. 😆. Google search for “Zheng He’s Malacca” and see how many temples in Southeast Asia are built in his name to commemorate his trips.
@@legpol keep lying. Pinoy bot
Being older, I can remember when this theory was initiated by a person in Britain, however, it never happened on a global scale and remains just that, a theory. It's not helpful when its presented as factual, except for the CCP.
Did you mean the Zheng He voyage is fake? I do believe so, fake. Let me tell you a supporting story involving the CCP.
The CCP leader Xi Jinping told the Filipinos in 2018 that Zheng He had visited the Philippines. Xi's story was immediately denied by Chief Justice Antonio Carpio saying Zheng He never came to his country. Xi never answered and implied he lied. The whole Zheng He saga is a lie.
They were so lucky they didnt enncounter any Freak Waves.!! Or else they would have been blown away without a trace. Amazing achievement indeed!!
But the achievement was fake. Zheng He never went to sea. Why I said this was because we cannot see his ships, his correspondence exchanged with governments, the treaties he signed with so many countries he was reported to have visited, the papers and books he had written, we cannot see any either. All was just a back hole.
@@legpol Go to learn some history before making this kind ignorant comments. The replica of his flag ship is in a park in Nanjing today. There's plenty of historical records. The reason you claim you don't see the evidence is because you don't see them.
@@bearpolo3618 : Your statements meant exactly the absence of evidence. What you had was only a replica, not an original. Zheng He was reported to have had 317 huge sail ships. Why not one original survived?
Your "historical records" must mean "documents" signed between Zheng He and foreign governments. Did you see one in a foreign government? This will be a very very strong evidence for Zheng He's voyages.
On the hands of foreign governments, there must be Zheng He's letters announcing his arrival by the sea shore so that a meeting could be arranged. Did you see any such correspondence?
@@legpol You are so ignorant. Did you watch the video? Do you know what happened? You don't learn history yet making these nonsense statement. Just give you one lesson. How do you expect wooden ships to last over almost 500 years? You are really clueless. In addition, I told you the replica of the flagship is in a park in Nanjing.Go to see it yourself. Go ask people from Malaysia, see if they know Admiral Zheng. Just google it, all right. Your refusal to accept the fact just shows how stubborn and biased you are.
@@legpol Are you kidding me? I have not heard any wooden ships can last almost 500 years. Did you watch the video and know what happened after the emperor died? If you don't want to believe the history, suit yourself, just don't ask this kind of stupid question.