| 1 | I wish a good trip to these modern heirs of the legendary Zheng He ! | |
| 2 | In addition, Zheng He brought exotic foreign items back to China, including the first giraffe ever seen there. | |
| 3 | To this day, Zheng He is still remembered as an envoy of friendship and peace, and his merits are widely recognized by people of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. | |
| 4 | The treasure ship, as all of the boats of China's first blue-water navy were known, was commanded by a eunuch admiral named Zheng He. | |
| 5 | Readers in the west know Zheng thanks to 1421, the bestselling book by British author Gavin Menzies, which claims that the Chinese ships reached America and Europe, circumnavigating the globe. |