Talk:Centaur/@comment-28856683-20160615213617/@comment-29602226-20170119192416

I don't think Kirins are inspired on giraffes. When Zheng He (XV century) came back to China from his travels he brought, among many other wonders, african giraffes. The Chinese identified those as Kirins, which was a huge PR success for the emperor, because the appearance of Kirins was associated to good governments and prosperity...

But the myth of the Kirin had existed for long before that, dating from the V century,