“我们发现了世界,还是世界发现了我们”,这是印在日本人上杉千年所著《郑和下西洋》一书封面上的话。郑和七下西洋的伟大与伟大之后的沉寂留下太多的遗憾和假设,而所有的遗憾与假设又总是离不开那个困扰着近百年来几乎所有仁人志士的难题:我们发现世界的历程为何如此艰难?《三联生活周刊》的报道这样写道:“郑和下西洋在第七次之后被 “We found out the world, or did the world find us,” is printed on the cover of the book “Zheng He’s Western Ocean”, which was written by the Japanese people for thousands of years. Zheng He left too much regret and supposition under the greatness of the West and the silence after the greatness. All the regrets and assumptions are always inseparable from the puzzle that plagued almost all the benevolent lords in the past century: We found the course of the world Why so hard? “Life Story of Sanlian” report wrote: "Zheng He and the West after the seventh was