Editing Zheng He (section)

====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"/>