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China’s hindu temples were built by Tamil traders 800 years to 1000 years ago for personal worship when they settled in Quanzhou region for managing trade. Many of them have collapsed now but manuscripts and figures of gods have been recovered and preserved by Chinese museums. Earliest settlers from Tamil kingdoms came as early as 6th or 7th century. “These rich Indian men and women mainly live on vegetables, milk and rice,” a Chinese writer of that time wrote, unlike the Chinese “who eat meat and fish.”