sentences:  Nestorian Christianity and Manicheanism died out during the Ming dynasty while Islam and Judaism were protected.Around 1376 the 30-year-old Chinese merchant Lin Nu visited Ormuz in Persia, converted to Islam, and married a Semu girl (“娶色目女”) (either a Persian or an Arab girl) and brought her back to Quanzhou in Fujian.The Confucian philosopher Li Zhi was their descendant.