| Running from tomorrow (February 22) until May 15 at the Hong Kong Museum of History, "Sailing West: Admiral Zheng He's Voyages" exhibition features more than 60 precious artefacts and 100 photographs associated with Zheng He's voyages, reviewing the most remarkable chapter in China's maritime history. Pictured is a painting depicting an ambassador from Bengal who presented a kylin to China in the sixth year of the Yongle reign (1409). The kylin (Chinese unicorn) in this picture in fact is a giraffe. Archives kept by the cabinet at the Ming Court contained 16 books of the same title, "The Poems of the Auspicious Kylin", recording its sensational impact. |
