During the reign of Lê Thánh Tông from 1460-1497 (Hồng Đức era) in Lê dynasty Vietnam, Han Chinese men on ships who were blown towards Vietnam's coast were arrested by Vietnamese coastal patrols.The Vietnamese selected the young Han Chinese men for castration to become eunuch slaves.Over 100 Han Chinese young men were known to be castrated by the Vietnamese after the Ming government found out in 1472 from some people who escaped and reported over 100 Chinese men were castrated and still in Vietnam after their ships were blown off course.The Ming government again had another report in 1499 from a Chinese eunuch named Wu Rui (born in Wenchang, Hainan) who escaped in 1497 after he had been enslaved in Vietnam's palace for decades after he was castrated as a young man on a ship that blew off course.No military action was taken by the Ming dynasty against Vietnam over this.
Parce que le Vietnam c'était français fût un temps.
>>18248464Probably because they got their asses kicked by Vietnam just a few decades prior.
>>18248464Han Chinese from Hainan (Hainanese) and the Leizhou peninsula have almost no famous people before the 20th century. They only had three semi-known Ming officials (Wang Maode, Han Jun, Lin Hua) and one Qing official, Huang Jifei.Wu Rui is probably the most famous historical Han Chinese Hainanese, solely for being a eunuch slave to Vietnamese.
