When it arrived the giraffe caused general amazement. Checking their encyclopedias, Confucian scholars decided that it must be a unicorn, a mythological creature that traditionally was said to have “the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, and the hooves of a horse,” and to be of such a gentle disposition that “it only ate grass and never hurt a living being.” When they learned that the animal in the Somali language was known as girin, that settled the matter. To Chinese ears, girinsounded very much like qilin, the Chinese name of the unicorn. The appearance of a qilin was regarded as proof of the virtue of the reigning emperor. Presenting it as a gift was a way for the officials to ingratiate themselves with the emperor.
Now when all these Somali girls go to Korea or east Asia they can share this info lmfao
. the good Somali before we were ruined with tribal wars and foreign powers interfering in our country.
