Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c5.s2.t10.3

v1.c5.s2.t10.3

There are many records in documents of the Han and Tang dynasties of Fengniu in India and the Western Regions of present-day China. *Han Shu - Biography of the Western Regions* recorded that there were animals such as Fengniu, buffalo, elephants, big dogs, macaca and peacocks in Kawmira (present-day Kashmir). The *History of the Later Han Dynasty* (*Juan* 180) recorded that there were rare and valuable animals, such as lions, rhinoceros, Fengniu, peacocks and sparrows in Antiochia where the land was hot and wet. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, as well as the Sui and Tang dynasties, both Qiuci (present-day Kuqa, Xinjiang) and Samarkand (the region between the Syr Darya and Amu Darya) had Fengniu.