Did you know that the Garden of Eden is somewhere in China?

It is , if you take Tse Tsan Tai ’s 1914 pursuance to pinpoint the legendary manicure lawn of earthly delights at face value .

Even though there have been legion attempts to slap the Garden of Edensomewhere on the single-valued function , Chinese newspaperman and pro - democracy revolutionary Tse tossed Eden in the deserts of northwest China . Strange Mapsgoes into his logical thinking :

In 1914 , Tse write The Creation , the Garden of Eden and the Origin of the Chinese , in which he essay to show , based on the geographical verbal description in the Bible , that the Garden of Eden was located in China .

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Tse ’s outlandish theory was an attempt at proving that at least some Biblical events had taken billet in China – and that therefore Christianity was not foreign to the Middle Kingdom . The script was stand for to dissipate the notion that Christianity in China was a tool of extraneous powers , at a sentence when the countries charge the missionaries were the same ones bullying a weak China into concede them coastal grant [ … ]

The resultant role is the location of Eden in what look to be a most unconvincing place : an area between the Tarim River and the Kuen Lun Mountains well know today as the Taklamakan Desert . The area , now the world ’s secondly - orotund sand desert after the Empty Quarter in Arabia , is one of the most inhospitable station on earth .

you may scan more about Tse ’s Chinese Eden single-valued function here , which also kick the bucket into the unsung drop off continent from Papua New Guinea to South America . For more Biblical adventures in Asia , seeJesusandMoses , buried in Japan .

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