Koxinga landing date changed back: Hsu

Hsu Tian-tsair, both mayor of Tainan and superintendent of the archive, said the right date of Koxinga’s landing at Lu Erh Men must be April 30, rather than April 29.

The archive first declared the date is April 30 in 1948. In 1959, Hsu said, the archive changed the date to April 29.

“All the documents kept at our archive,” Hsu said, “support the 1948 decision.” He warned that “It shouldn’t be considered a double-take or flip-flop action.”

Koxinga, a loyal Ming general, attacked the Dutch in Zeelandia (present-day Anping) and Provintia (Tainan) after he landed with his troops ferried from China across the Taiwan Strait.

After a long siege, the Dutch colonists surrendered to Koxinga in the spring of 1662. Taiwan came under the rule of the House of Cheng for 20 years. Koxinga’s grandson Cheng Ko-shuang surrendered to Manchu China in 1682.

Subsequently, the Emperor Kang Hsi annexed Taiwan as part of China.

The Manchu court in Beijing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after the first Sino-Japanese War. It was restored to the Republic of China in 1945 after the end of the Second World War.

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