Queen Dong
| Dong You, Queen of Tungning | |
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| Princess Consort of Yanping | |
| Reign | 1649 - 1662 (13 years) |
| Queen dowager of Tungning | |
| Reign | 1662 - 1681 (19 years) |
| Spouse | Koxinga |
| Issue | Zheng Jing, Zheng Cong |
| Father | Dong Yangxian |
| Born |
17 October 1623 Jinjiang, Fujian, China |
| Died |
30 July 1681 (aged 57) Tainan, Taiwan |
| Burial |
Wuding Li, Tianxing Zhou Nan'an, Fujian (after 1683) |
| Dong You | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 董友 | ||||||
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| Chao Wu-wang-fei | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 潮武王妃 | ||||||
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Queen Dong (17 October 1623 – 30 July 1681[1]), birth name Dong You, posthumous name Chao Wuwangfei,[2] was the princess consort of Koxinga and mother of Zheng Jing.
Biography
In 1623, Dong was born in a Jinjiang family with scholar-official, and her father was Dong Yangxian, a politician of Southern Ming. In 1642, Dong married Koxinga and gave birth to Zheng Jing. In 1649, Koxinga became Prince of Yanping (延平王); as the result, Dong became his princess consort. In 1662, Koxinga defeat Frederick Coyett and his army in Siege of Fort Zeelandia, and Kingdom of Tungning was later built. After Koxinga died, Dong's son Zheng Jing won the succession to the throne of Tungning by defeating Zheng Xi in a civil war and Zheng Tai in a political struggle. In 1681, Dong died in Tainan, Taiwan.
Family
Royal of Tungning
| Tagawa Shichizaemon | Zheng Shaozu | Yan Siqi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dong Yangxian | Tagawa Matsu | Zheng Zhilong | Concubinage Yan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consort kin Huang | Queen Dong | Koxinga | Zheng Xi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feng Xifan | He-niang Huang | Zheng Jing | Zhao-niang Chen | Chen Yonghua | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princess Feng | Zheng Keshuang | Zheng Kezang | Princess Chen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zheng Anfu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Queen Tang, who had no son, was king Zheng Jing's seishitsu
Dong's descendants
- Zheng Jing (鄭經; Prince Wen of Chao & Prince of Yanping)
- Zheng Kezang (鄭克𡒉; Crown prince of Yanping & regency)
- Zheng Keshuang (鄭克塽; Prince of Chao & Prince of Yanping)
- Zheng Cong (鄭聰; prince)
- Zheng Ming (鄭明; prince)
- Zheng Rui (鄭睿; prince)
- Zheng Zhi (鄭智; prince)
Dong's family
- Dong Ciqiao (董次橋; grandfather)
- Dong Yangbin (董颺賓; uncle)
- Dong Yangxian (董颺先; father)
- Dong Yin (董寅; brother)
- Dong Lin (董麟; brother)
- Dong Kui (董葵; brother)
- Dong Ju (董車; brother)
- Dong Wu (董武; brother)
- Dong Yin (董隱; sister)
- Dong Zhou (董周; sister)
- Dong Qian (董仟; sister)
- Dong Yangyu (董颺瑜; uncle)