Southeast Asia once paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty Qilin , what is going on?

Southeast Asia paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty with the legendary unicorn, which is actually what we now call the giraffe. Mistaken for a unicorn.

In Chinese history, some Rui beasts, such as dragons, phoenixes and unicorns, etc., descend auspicious every day, the whole country rejoices, is a symbol of national peace and security, very superstitious, in fact, this "unicorn" is a giraffe.

Southeast Asia once paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty "Qilin", which was actually a giraffe from Bangladesh on a long journey, and became a Qilin under the pen of a Ming Dynasty painter.

According to historical records, Zheng He's fleet went to the West to show the prestige of the country, so that the country admired the Ming Dynasty very much, and in order to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty, the country brought back a unicorn described by China from Africa through Arabia. As shown below:

It's actually just a giraffe.

The country is called Bang Ge La, that is, the Han body poison country, and the Eastern Han Dynasty is called Tianzhu. Later, Zhongtianzhu tribute was paid to Liang, and Nantianzhu was tributed to Wei. Tang is also divided into five Tianzhu, also known as five India. Song is still known as Tianzhu. Punggara is also the East Indies. It can be reached from Sumatra for 20 days and nights.

It's just to get a giraffe, I remember a place in Africa, what country or tribe, I can't remember.

That's the giraffe, belongs to the alien species, the ancients didn't know, it means "unicorn" up to the heavens, and the emperor said that it was a rui beast, and I remember that it was presented by Bangladesh at that time.

That should be a myth, the unicorn doesn't exist, okay.

During the Ming Dynasty, the "unicorn" paid tribute by Southeast Asian countries was actually a giraffe. During the Ming Dynasty, no one had ever seen a giraffe, so they thought it was a novelty. For countries that pay tribute to giraffes, in order to establish friendly relations with our country, and according to the preferences of our people, giraffes are called unicorns.

According to some paintings left at that time, it can be known that the "unicorn" mentioned at that time was actually a giraffe. The people of the Ming Dynasty had never seen such an animal as a giraffe, so they called it "Qilin" and considered it an auspicious omen.

It sounds mysterious, but it's a giraffe. It's just that no one in the Ming Dynasty had ever seen such an animal at that time, so they held it very high.

The unicorn is an ancient mythical beast, and the unicorn paid tribute by Southeast Asian countries during the Ming Dynasty was a giraffe.

The unicorn is an ancient mythical beast, but it only exists in ancient mythology. The unicorn is an ancient mythical beast that represents auspiciousness in traditional stories.

In the first year of Jiaqing, the cattle of the people were born. In seven years, Zhenhai Min's cattle gave birth to a calf, which was covered with scales, blue and black, with beard under the chin, and fine scales. In May of the eleventh year, the Yanting folk cattle produced a lin, two feet five inches high, one meat horn, one inch long, eyes such as crystal, scales and armor all over the body, two ridges to the tail each have meat grains such as beans, ** color, eight legs, cow hooves, wind and rain during the birth, the golden light is full of courtyards, and the grass and trees are yellow.

From the "Qing Historical Manuscript".

Although the description of the unknown beast and the unicorn is similar in ancient times, it is only because the beast has scale armor on the outside. In the story, the unicorn is described as having a lion-like head, deer-like horns, tiger eyes, elk body, dragon scales, and oxtail are all connected together. The image of the unicorn is also not a random patchwork, and it is thought that its prototype should be the vanished Satsuma Lin.

But in parts of East Africa, giraffes are pronounced like unicorns, and they become part of the tribute.

During the Ming Dynasty, the unicorn that Southeast Asian countries paid tribute to was the giraffe. People can see in "Ming People Painting Qilin Picture Shen Du Song" that the giraffe in the painting is it. Bangladesh specially paid tribute to Changxin Road because of Zheng He's promotion of peace.

The unicorn and the dragon are originally mythical beasts in mythological stories, how can they be seen in reality. But the number of giraffes is still quite small, after all, people in the Ming Dynasty are still rare, and it is difficult to catch, and even the appearance is a bit similar to the description in the book.

Therefore, Bangladesh said that it was the unicorn that paid tribute, and the Ming Dynasty had nothing to refute. What's more, what people are sending is an auspicious rui, even if it is not a real unicorn, it can also correspond to the theory of auspicious rui in the prosperous world, there is nothing to say. The king also liked this superstitious practice to increase the momentum, and he didn't understand whether it was a giraffe or a unicorn, and he didn't care.

In fact, the animal that was regarded as a unicorn tribute at that time was the giraffe that we are a household name today. This is also the animal that we can see in the zoo.

Everyone knows that the unicorn does not exist, and the unicorn dedicated to the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia at that time was actually a giraffe, which generally lived on the grassland, and now it can also be seen in zoos.

This unicorn is actually a giraffe, but the people of the Ming Dynasty didn't know what kind of animal it was, so they thought it was an auspicious unicorn.