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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Just call me Jari: [QB] ^^^^ Thanks Brada, You know whats up..I should have said before Africans arrived in China as Slaves. The Word Kunlun began to be associatied with Slaves from Africa but before that it was applied to Dark Skinned non Chinese. Also even before that there was contact and Trade with the Zanj during the Mongol Controlled China. More [b]Tang sources do not categorize all people with dark skin as kunlun, however. The Fonner Tang History reports that the residents of the Southeast Asian country of Dandan f t f t "have black coloring," yet the inhabitants are not called kunlun,[/b] unlike other descriptions of people from Southeast Asian countries in the same chapter.23 [b]Another word used to describe people with black or dark skin during the Tang is sengchi fifflLt or zengqi itM, transliterations of zanj, the Arabic word for "dark.,,24 Arabs brought these sengchi slaves from East Africa[/b] as part of the large-scale maritime trade between the Persian Gulf and China during the Tang, although contemporary Arab sources describing trade with China do not mention slavery.25 [b]Perhaps because of the increasing number of foreign traders and slaves entering China in the eight and ninth centuries, however, one Tang account does expand the meaning of the word kunlun to include not only races of people from Southeast Asia but also these East African zanj (sengchi).[/b]27 The Buddhist lexicographer Ruilin includes an entry on "The language of kunlun" in his dictionary Yiqie jing yinyi -m~~{f~ (The Sounds and Meanings of All the Scriptures), compiled between 783 and 820.28 Huilin uses the tenn kunlun as a category to describe dark-skinned people from the islands of the South Pacific: [i]Kunlun can also be written as gulun. They are the non-Chinese peoples from the east, those from the island states of the Southern Seas. Their bodies are black.... There are many types of them, [b]including the zanj, the turmi, the kurdang, and the khmer.[/b] They are all base peoples. These countries lack ritual and propriety. They steal in order to live, and love to feed on humans for food, as if they were some sort of rakshas or a kind of evil ghost. The words they speak do not have any correct meaning at all.... They do extremely well when they enter the water, since they can stay there for a day without dying.29[/i] This is interesting considering Al-Takruri discovery of a Muslim Source listing the Indo Chinese as hosting "Zanj" along with Al Jahiz and Chinese Sources all attest to Indo Chinese Blacks.. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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