The Contacts between Zhejiang and Korea and Southeast Asia in the Early Days of Ming Dynasty

In the early days of Ming Dynasty,the government maintained friendly contacts with overseas countries,and it made the overseas countries becoming vassal state relations of the Ming Dynasty by presenting tribute to the Ming Dynasty.At that time the contacts between the Ming Dynasty and overseas countries were close unprecedentedly,especially ZhengHe went to the Western world for seven times,which impelled economical and cultural exchanges between the China and foreign countries.As an important foreign trade base of Ming Dynasty,Zhejiang played the vital role in the contacts Between china and Korea and southeast Asia,which strengthened the bilateral and economical exchanges for each other.