The Influences Of Zheng He's Expedition To The West And The Causes Of Discontinue

The 21^st century is marine century, the development of marine enterprise will become a main theme in 21^st century. Now, every country are trying best to exploit and make use of the marine natural resource, marine economy developes very fast, meanwhile, many countries fight against for the marine resource and marine rights with their neighboring countries.The Chinese Nation has long history which of exploit and make use of marine resource. We were proficient and run a risk to the sea. At Chun and Qiu times, Qi Culture in north, and Yue Culture in south were the typical example of the Ancient Marine Culture. The Xu Fu sailded to east in Qin Dynasty, Sun Quan sent navy to Tai Wan in San Guo Times, foreign trade developed in Song Yuan, all the major times of our Marine Culture. Zheng He's Expedition to the west in early Ming Dynasty pull our Ancient Marine Culture to the top, it provided a window for us to flourished Culture in perspectives.Zheng He's Expedition and western explorer nearly in the same time which was the Modern Navigation Times, they faced to same opportunity. But why the end was different? We should think it.Zheng He's Voyage took three new pattern of Ancient Chinese Marine Culture: the new changes of Pay Tribute System;the goal raise of polities and diplomacies;high marine right practices.The Pay Tribute System became the tools of monopolized the foreign trade and carried on the restrain diplomacy and spread Chinese tradition etiquette. The Pay Tribute only was a policy of mollification for foreign country, didn't hope to get profit .Meanwhile ruler used confer titles of nobility on some countries. Ban on marine trade and Pay Tribute trade on foreign country. The high marine right practices made us control the east Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.But there were practices and ideas' malposition in Zheng He's Expedition. Life the ban and ban on marine trade reflected feudal ruling class's centralization of state power. Zheng He's Expedition was centralization's reflection, marine practices and ideas' malposition told us: although Zheng He Voyage succeeded in polities and diplomacies,his marine right ideas were feudal, conservative, conceited and agricultural. Zheng He's Expedition to expand feudal dominate to oversea. The contradictory trade and private was Ming Government reactionary to tradition marine policy, it made private trade decline and coastal economy stagnate. Contradictory of goal of polities and diplomacies and economy was extendence of feudal thought inertia, it was influenced by main land culture temperament, it run counter to make profit in oversea trade, so Zheng He's Expedition lacked long motive power. Ban on Migration oversea Reflected feudal offical's contradictory psychology which was afraid of people power, it desroied Migration oversea.Thinking deeply about the cause. I found that Chinese Nation thought the sea was mysterious, and China was agricultural country, Chinese Culture was the advanced in east Asia, these cause blocked old Chinese people fighted for sea and succeeded.