A Ming mystery: Earliest known Chinese inscription in Israel discovered in Jerusalem

[Claira]

Jerusalem’s Mount Zion is full of mystery and surprises, but this summer, archaeologists unearthed a treasure that had experts scratching their heads—and smiling with delight. Amid the dust and ruins of a site dating back to the Byzantine and Second Temple periods, a glint of porcelain revealed a remarkable find: a fragment of a 16th-century Chinese bowl bearing a poetic inscription in Mandarin, “Forever we will guard the eternal spring.”

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-831765

[Great Old Man]

30 minutes ago, Claira said:

Jerusalem’s Mount Zion is full of mystery and surprises, but this summer, archaeologists unearthed a treasure that had experts scratching their heads—and smiling with delight. Amid the dust and ruins of a site dating back to the Byzantine and Second Temple periods, a glint of porcelain revealed a remarkable find: a fragment of a 16th-century Chinese bowl bearing a poetic inscription in Mandarin, “Forever we will guard the eternal spring.”

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-831765

The Ming dynasty was a multicultural society, as was the Tang dynasty.

I heard that my ancestor Choi Chi-won, a Tang dynasty bureaucrat who was from Sila(that time of Korea), saved numerous Jewish and Muslim lives by fighting against Huang Chao.

When Israel was conquered by Assyria, some of them fled to the east.

 

 

[Claira]

1 hour ago, Great Old Man said:

The Ming dynasty was a multicultural society, as was the Tang dynasty.

I heard that my ancestor Choi Chi-won, a Tang dynasty bureaucrat who was from Sila(that time of Korea), saved numerous Jewish and Muslim lives by fighting against Huang Chao.

When Israel was conquered by Assyria, some of them fled to the east.

What an interesting and brave ancestor you have. I've studied both the Ming and Tang dynasties and do recall the cultural influence they had on East Asia and elsewhere. And both, as you stated, were quite cosmopolitan. Their history is quite fascinating.