Record of Cambodia Daguan
Record of Cambodia Daguan Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. To this day Zhou's description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders,…
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Record of Cambodia Daguan
Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. To this day Zhou's description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life remains a unique portrait of thirteenth-century Angkor at a time when its splendors were still intact.Very little is known about Zhou Daguan. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296-97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China.
After returning home he faded into obscurity, though he seems to have lived on for several decades. He was born on or near the southeastern coast of China, and was probably a young man when he traveled to Cambodia by boat. Much of the text of Zhou's book has been lost over the centuries, but what remains gives us a lively sense of Zhou the man as well as of