遠嫁馬六甲的明朝公主
马来西亚家喻户晓的汉丽宝公主出自《马来纪年》，明代史料却找不到她的任何记载。
Melaka’s Ming princess — missing from Ming records
在馬來西亞，許多人從小聽過漢麗寶的故事：相傳明朝皇帝把公主漢麗寶遠嫁馬六甲蘇丹滿速沙，隨行五百人，就安頓在今天的三寶山一帶。這段故事出自馬來古典《馬來紀年》（Sejarah Melayu），在馬來世界流傳極廣，常被視為峇峇娘惹文化的起點。奇妙的是，明代史料裡卻找不到這位公主的任何記載；十六世紀葡萄牙人的《東方誌》也只提到更早一位不知名的華人女子，嫁的是另一位蘇丹。因此學者多把漢麗寶視為傳說。你小時候聽到的漢麗寶，是什麼模樣？
Every Malaysian schoolchild knows Hang Li Po: the Ming princess sent to marry Sultan Mansur Shah of Melaka, arriving with five hundred attendants who settled on Bukit Cina. The story comes from the Malay Annals (Sejarah Melayu) and is often told as the beginning of the Baba-Nyonya community. Yet no Ming record mentions her, and the 16th-century Portuguese Suma Oriental speaks only of an unnamed Chinese woman married to an earlier sultan. Historians mostly treat her as legend — a story that remembers real contact. How was she told to you?
故事出自《馬來紀年》；明代史料未見記載，學者多視為傳說。
The account in the Malay Annals is real; the princess herself is absent from Ming records, so most historians treat her as legend.