Friday, February 27, 2009

Malacca Trip Part 5 - Peanut Drink and Hang Li Po's tomb

We had a long walk on the street and decided to stop by the store for a drink. There's the all famous peanut drink that is offered in the shop. Ordered the drink in cold and the drink just tasted bland and bad LOL. All the money went down the drain on that. On the other side of that place was a tomb, she was of someone significant. Here's the description of her from Wikipedia.

Hang Li Po (Chinese: 汉丽宝) was the fifth wife of Malacca's Sultan Mansur Shah (reigning from 1456 to 1477). It is disputed whether such a person exists because she was never recorded as a princess in the Chinese court of the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Chronicles. At the time of the arrival of the Sultan's envoy, the reigning Ming Emperor was Jingtai Emperor. Records of his reign was expunged following the ascension of Tianshun in 1457. It is likely that if she were a princess in the Ming court, records of her might not exist. In many historical text, she was said to have been a princess in the court of the Yongle Emperor(1402-1424).





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