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Of ika mardiah
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
6:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Urang Sunda] Sunda
Ageung, Sunda Alit, jeung Badak Sunda...Cheng Ho
Emut Laksamana Cheng Ho, waktos abdi nuju di Malaysia,
di Cititel caket hotel aya pameran ekspedisi Cheng Ho nu diayakeun
ku National Geographic, kaleresan sateuacana abdi tos maca perkawis
ekspedisi eta di majalah NG. Mung nyeta teu aya nu minat rerencangan mah
waktos abdi ngacaprak ngobrolkeun Cheng Ho, heuheu...asa aya di "dunia
lain" ari teu aya nu mairan teh.
Janten unggal ngalangkung ka tempat pameran, mung
sakedap-sakedap. Tapi ningal Singapura (nu teu didarati ku Cheng Ho) oge
Malaysia meni serius sareng dimanfaatkeun pisan peringatan ekspedisi Cheng Ho
kanggo pariwisata. Sagala diayakeun.
Muhun di urang oge aya peringatan pelayaran Cheng Ho
di Semarang (Jawa Tengah) mung teu gebyar jiga di negara tatangga.
Seueur geningan hal-hal nu masih keneh kedah diungkap
dina sajarah teh.
MRachmat Rawyani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- MRachmat Rawyani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Perkara pulo-pulo, aya wartos cenah mah anu
> pangheulana nimu benua Amerika teh sanes
columbus
> tapi
> laksamana Cheng Ho ti nagri Cina (anu dikenal
oge di
> Indonesia). Manehna teh ninjak taneuh Amerika
70
> taun
> sateuacanna Columbus. Ieu beja teh ceuk salah
sahiji
> media di Cina, hasil panalungtikan ti para
ahli,
> dimana aya peta-peta anu nembe katimu
ahir-ahir
> ieu.(wartosna aya dihandap).Cheng Ho oge
cenah mah
> tos
> ka Kutub kidul, margi salah sahiji paninggalanana
> teh
> aya peta kutub kidul sagala.
>
> Ceuk beja oge, saleresna urang Bugis
anu sok
> balayar,
> kantos ka australia miheulaan bangsa Barat.
malihan
> mah ceuk sakaol urang Bugis oge tos berlayar
dugi ka
> Amerika satueacanna Columbus. Ngan hanjakal,
jigana
> sabada balayar teh heunteu terasa ngadamel
peta
> tetengger pikeun palaut sejenna.
>
> baktos,
>
> mrachmatrawyani
>
>
> >
>
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=221618&cat=Asia
> >
> > Map proves China reached
America first, say
> > scholars
> > Beijing | January 16, 2006 10:15:06 PM
IST
> > The rediscovery of an old
map apparently
> depicting
> > the Chinese view of the world in 1418
backs claims
> > that a Chinese seafarer reached America
at least
> 70
> > years before Columbus, scholars said
Monday.
> > The 1763 map was copied from a map dated
1418 that
> > shows every continent, according to its
owner and
> > antiquities collector Liu Gang, who
presented a
> copy
> > of the map in Beijing on Monday evening.
> > It is believed to offer
further evidence that
> > Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed to the
Americas
> well
> > before the arrival of Christopher
Columbus in
> 1492,
> > Liu and British naval historian Gavin
Menzies
> said.
> > "This map tells me
Zheng He discovered the
> world,"
> > Liu told reporters.
> > The map depicts and briefly
describes America,
> > Africa and Europe, but the British Isles
are
> missing
> > from it and California is shown as an
island.
> > It shows the world's oceans
and many major
> islands
> > and rivers, including what is now the
Potomac
> River
> > on which Washington DC is located.
> > Menzies and Liu claim there
is also evidence
> that
> > European explorers Christopher Columbus,
Vasco da
> > Gama and Ferdinand Magellan "used
copies of this
> map
> > to reach the New World".
> > "Zheng He and his fleet
discovered the American
> > continent before Columbus was even born.
They also
> > circumnavigated and charted the globe, a
century
> > before the Europeans," Menzies was
quoted as
> saying
> > in a press statement.
> > If the claims of Liu and
Menzies are correct, it
> > would mean would mean Zheng He's fleet
had taken
> no
> > more than 13 years to navigate and map
the entire
> > globe.
> > Zheng He was born into a
Chinese Hui Muslim
> family
> > in the southwestern province of Yunnan
in 1371,
> > according to Chinese historians. He rose
through
> the
> > ranks after he was recruited as a
promising eunuch
> > for the Ming dynasty imperial household
at the age
> > of ten.
> > From 1405 to his death in
1433, he led seven
> fleets that visited 37 countries in Southeast
Asia,
> the Middle East and Africa.
> Liu said his main evidence that
the map was a
> genuine copy of one made in 1418 is a single
> character, "subject", stamped onto
the map and
> meaning that the mapmaker was a loyal subject
of the
> Ming emperor.
> This means the mapmaker would
face the death
> penalty if he was discovered to have tricked
the
> emperor by creating the map from more
contemporary
> sources, he said.
> Liu, a prominent commercial
lawyer, said he only
> realised the significance of the map after
reading
> Menzies' book, "1421 - The Year China
Discovered the
> World", which was published in Chinese
language last
> May.
> He said he bought the map in an
antiques shop in
> Shanghai in 2001 for about $500. The exact
age of
> the map is currently being tested in New Zealand.
> The first vessels of Zheng He's
original 200-ship
> fleet left Nanjing on July 11, 1405, although
some
> accounts give a higher number of ships.
> Many scholars believe that the
Americas were first
> colonized at least 10,000 years ago by prehistoric
> people who travelled from parts of
northeastern Asia
> now known as Siberia and Mongolia.
> They argue that cultural,
linguistic and genetic
> evidence suggests that prehistoric Mongoloid
tribes
> crossed the frozen landmass that blocked the Bering
> Strait during the last Ice Age.
> --DPA
>
> (IANS)
>
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