History tells us that Marco Polo lived many years in China and that from these experiences wrote a book called Description of the world. I can imagine how fantastic this land and the imperial court must have seemed to him at that time. What an adventure he lived!
This story started in 1260 when his father and uncle sold everything they had in Constantinople and went on a journey to the Mongol Empire. Another world, literally. They came to the court of the Kublai Khan, grandson of nothing more and nothing less than Genghis Khan, and they received an order: to return to Italy and return with a group of one hundred people who could enrich the Mongolian court with their knowledge. And Marco Polo was one of them.
When Nicolás Polo returned to Asia, he brought his 17-year-old son, Marco. The Polo family, father, uncle and our protagonist, lived and traveled in Asia between 1271 and 1295. They took note of everything and stepped on Persia and Armenia before reaching China. Everything, trips, adventures, places, cities, courts, have been captured in that book called description of the world. When they arrived in Beijing, they stayed in court and worked for the Khan. But these stories are "decorated«? Are they exaggerations, truths or lies?
Marco Polo's prose seems at times exaggerated, so much so that There has been no lack of people who directly believed that they were inventions. If you knew China, why don't you say anything about the Great Wall that is impressive? Why not talk about chopsticks, ultra-tiny feet of Chinese women, or classic tea? Is it possible that he did not go that far and his writings were based on other books or testimonies of other people? Couldn't it be that that just didn't get your attention?
If you are interested in the veracity of what Marco Polo wrote, you can read the study of Hans Ulrich Voger, a China specialist from the University of Tübingen, who concentrated on analyzing the veracity of his words. Vogel thinks it is true that Marco Polo was in China Well, there are very reliable descriptions of certain customs of the time, such as the making of paper or what the Chinese coins were like at that time.