Chinese Characters tell the creation story

[busterdog]

I am not aware that anyone else has ever made this connection concerning this or any similar historical note.

No. Thats why you need to say more about it!

 

[juvenissun]

Although I am Irish, and a fan of celtic Missionary work, my username is taken from the other great missionary church of the Dark Ages, the Assyrian Church, also known in the West as the Nestorians.

The Christian nation referred to in the letter was probably the Uyghurs or Naimans of whom a significant number were Christians when Genghis Khan conquered them. It was the Uyghur script Genghis adopted.

The problem is, although your monk travelled to China to meet the emperor, it was not a Chinese emperor he met but a Mongol. The reason the monk was able to travel to China is because the Mongols had conquered most of Central Asia and China too allowing trade to move across the Silk Road. The Uyghur was adopted by the Mongols for their Mongolian language which was previously unwritten, but Chinese was a different language continued to use its own Chinese characters.

Here is an example of Uyghur script which as you can see is very different from Chinese characters.

. . .. . Guyuk Khan's Stamp
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A few interesting observations:

Mongols conquered the middle and western Asia before they entered China. Whatever they got from the west, it did not make a dent to the Chinese culture. On the contrary, they were assimilated by China in merely a few tens of year. So the Mongolian calligraphy (as shown by Assyrian) had zero effect to Chinese calligraphy. Besides, most Chinese characters were made way before the Mongolian invasion.

Jewish people arrived to China 1000+ years earlier than Mongols (amazing). They established Jewish religion in China with a Chinese format (one of the tourist attractions at Xian, along with the Terracotta Army). I guess they (might be fewer than 100 people) could have more profound influence to the development of Chinese characters than Mongols.