Zheng Hi menggambarkan Melaka kurun ke 15
Zheng He
Admiral Zheng He , was a Hui people China mariner, exploration, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" or "Zheng He to the Western Ocean", from 1405 to 1433....during his expeditions abroad. In his Description of the Starry Raft Description of the Starry Raft ( written in year 1436 by the translator/interpreter of admiral Zheng He, the description depicted places, peoples, cultures, etc, about all of what he saw.... (1436) there were descriptions of early 15th centuryMalacca)
He noted that Malacca people which was the Malays had "their skin resembled black lacquer, but there were some white-skinned people among them who are merchants of ethnic Tang… (The Tang Dynasty?) Men and women appeared in mallet-like chignon hair style, simple and kind lifestyle, they fish at rivers and at sea. The coastal village was inhabited by very few peoples and was not ruled by any neighboring kingdoms. The only produce of Malacca was tin, from a river. Tins obtained from river were fired into tin block (known as Tin ingot) where each weigh 1.4 jin
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