Guoxing Well

Guoxing Well

Guoxing Well is a municipal-level cultural heritage site of Xiamen City.

Guoxing Well is located within Yanping Park on Gulangyu Island in Siming District. It is a municipal-level cultural heritage site dating back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Protected area: within a 20-meter radius centered on the well.

Zheng Chenggong, originally named Sen and childhood name Fusong, with the courtesy name Damu and pseudonym Mingyan, was born on July 14, 1624, in Shirahama, Hirado City, Japan, to parents from Shijing, Nan’an. His father was Zheng Zhilong and his mother was the daughter of the Tagawa family from Hirado City, Nagasaki, Japan. In the third year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty (1630), at the age of 7, Zheng Chenggong returned from Japan to Anping (now Anhai Town, Jinjiang) to study and was given the name Sen.

At the age of 11, Zheng Chenggong once composed an essay on the topic “Sweeping, Greeting, Responding, Advancing, and Retreating” as assigned by his tutor, and wrote the striking sentence: “The conquests of Tang and Wu are no more than sweeping; the abdications of Yao and Shun are no more than advancing and retreating.” He later immersed himself in the study of the classics, history, and military strategy. … More details about Zheng Chenggong ++