Editing Zheng He (section)

===Southeast Asia===
[[File:Miếu Nhị Phủ.jpg|thumb|The Ông Bổn Temple, built to venerate Zheng He, or Bổn Đầu Công in [[Ho Chi Minh City]], [[Vietnam]]]]

====Veneration====
[[File:Cakra Donya.JPG|thumb|The Cakra Donya Bell, a gift from Zheng He to [[Pasai]], now kept at the [[Aceh Museum]] in [[Banda Aceh]].]]

Among the [[Chinese diaspora]] in Southeast Asia, Zheng He became a figure of folk veneration.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ias.umn.edu/2012/11/20/wade-geoffrey/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211193248/http://ias.umn.edu/2012/11/20/wade-geoffrey/|first1=Geoffrey|last1=Wade|url-status=dead|title=Events – November 20, 2012: The Chinese Admiral Zheng He: Uses and Abuses of an Historical Figure|website=Institute for Advanced Study|archive-date=11 December 2012|publisher=University of Minnesota|access-date=25 November 2012 }}</ref> Even some of his crew members who happened to stay in some port sometimes did so as well, such as "Poontaokong" on [[Sulu Archipelago|Sulu]].<ref name="Tata">Tan Ta Sen & al. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=vIUmU2ytmIIC&pg=PA221 Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia]''. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009. {{ISBN|978-981-230-837-5}}.</ref> The temples of the cult, called after either of his names, Cheng Hoon or Sam Po, are peculiar to overseas Chinese except for a single temple in [[Hongjian]] originally constructed by a returned [[Filipinos|Filipino]] Chinese in the Ming dynasty and rebuilt by another Filipino Chinese after the original was destroyed during the [[Cultural Revolution]].<ref name="Tata"/>

====Malacca====
The oldest and most important Chinese temple in Malacca is the 17th-century Cheng Hoon Teng, dedicated to [[Guanyin]]. During [[Dutch East Indies|Dutch colonial rule]], the head of the Cheng Hoon Temple was appointed as chief over the community's Chinese inhabitants.<ref name="Tata"/>

Following Zheng He's arrival, the sultan and the sultana of Malacca visited China at the head of over 540 of their subjects, bearing ample tribute. Sultan [[Mansur Shah of Malacca|Mansur Shah]] (r. 1459–1477) later dispatched Tun Perpatih Putih as his envoy to China, carrying a letter from the sultan to the Ming emperor. The letter requested the hand of an imperial daughter in marriage. Malay (but not Chinese) annals record that in 1459, a princess named [[Hang Li Po]] or Hang Liu was sent from China to marry the sultan. She came with 500 high-ranking young men and a few hundred handmaidens as her entourage. They eventually settled in [[Bukit Cina]]. It is believed that a significant number of them married into the local populace, creating the descendants now known as the [[Peranakan]].<ref name="malacca">{{cite book|last=Jin|first=Shaoqing|title=Zheng He's Voyages down the Western Seas|editor=Office of the People's Government of Fujian Province|publisher=China Intercontinental Press|location=Fujian, China|year=2005|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmpkR6l5MaMC&pg=PA58|access-date=2 August 2009| isbn=978-7-5085-0708-8}}</ref> Owing to this supposed lineage, the Peranakan still use special honorifics: ''[[Baba (honorific)|Baba]]'' for the men and ''[[Nyonya]]'' for the women.

====Indonesia====
[[File:Stamps of Indonesia, 026-05.jpg|thumb|Stamp from [[Indonesia]] commemorating Zheng He's voyages to secure the maritime routes, usher urbanisation and assist in creating a common prosperity throughout continents and cultures.]]
[[File:Cheng Hoo1.JPG|thumb|The Zheng Hoo Mosque in [[Surabaya]].]]

The [[Indonesian Chinese|Chinese Indonesian]] community have established temples dedicated to Zheng He in [[Jakarta]], [[Cirebon]], [[Surabaya]], and [[Semarang]].<ref name="Tata"/>

In 1961, the Indonesian Islamic leader and scholar [[Hamka]] credited Zheng He for playing an important role in the development of Islam in Indonesia.<ref>Wang, Rosey Ma. "[http://210.0.141.99/eng/malaysia/ChineseMuslim_in_Malaysia.asp Chinese Muslims in Malaysia, History and Development] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717054928/http://210.0.141.99/eng/malaysia/ChineseMuslim_in_Malaysia.asp |date=17 July 2006 }}".{{unreliable source?|date=October 2012}}</ref> The ''Brunei Times'' credits Zheng He with building Chinese Muslim communities in [[Palembang]] and along the shores of [[Java]], the [[Malay Peninsula]], and the [[Philippines]]. These Muslims allegedly followed the [[Hanafi]] school in the Chinese language.<ref>{{cite news|last=Aqsha|first=Darul|title=Zheng He and Islam in Southeast Asia|url=http://www.bt.com.bn/art-culture/2010/07/13/zheng-he-and-islam-southeast-asia|access-date=28 September 2012|newspaper=The Brunei Times|date=13 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509022407/http://www.bt.com.bn/art-culture/2010/07/13/zheng-he-and-islam-southeast-asia|archive-date=9 May 2013}}</ref>