The Zhengde Emperor, personal name Zhu Houzhao (朱厚㷖), was the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1505 to 1521. He was the Hongzhi Emperor's eldest son. Zhu Houzhao took the throne at only 14 with the era name "Zhengde", meaning "right virtue" or "rectification of virtue".
Palace portrait on a hanging scroll, kept in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Portrait of the Zhengde Emperor
Stele in memory of the renovation of the Temple of Yan in Qufu, 1509 (4th year of the Zhengde era)
Chinese Islamic bronze incense burner made during the reign of Zhengde. Adilnor Collection, Sweden.
The Malacca Sultanate was a Malay sultanate based in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia. Conventional historical thesis marks c. 1400 as the founding year of the sultanate by King of Singapura, Parameswara, also known as Iskandar Shah, although earlier dates for its founding have been proposed. At the height of the sultanate's power in the 15th century, its capital grew into one of the most important transshipment ports of its time, with territory covering much of the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Islands and a significant portion of the northern coast of Sumatra in present-day Indonesia.
A memorial rock for the disembarkation point of Admiral Zheng He in 1405.
Reconstruction of the port of Melaka after its foundation, from Malacca Maritime Museum
Melaka Sultanate during the reign of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah (1477–1488) by Maembong Ayoh
The replica of Malacca Sultanate's palace which was built from information and data obtained from the Malay Annals. This historical document had references to the construction and the architecture of palaces during the era of Sultan Mansur Shah, who ruled from 1458 to 1477.