The Lions and Their Importation Into East Asia

The importation of lions into east asia is really kind of interesting story, and probably similarly interesting to how lions came to be existing in the cultural mythos of england. But it actually came about in the the tongue dynasty from about the seventh to tenth centuries. The imperial family of the tong dynasty was actually the sort of a, it's hard to say half, but semi chinese, semi turks would kind of a come in from the north and from the west. And some of them, very famously, would just refuse to learn chinese and refuse to speak to the common people, and they would only speak their own language.