Ancient chinese horse

horse by the prince of dongdan 1899

Mounted archer classic

Elaborate burials are a defining aspect of traditional Chinese culture and grave goods provide us extraordinary amounts of information about how the ancient Chinese lived. The horse-riding military, which began in the 3rd century b.c., grew rapidly during the 2nd century b.c. to meet the challenge of horse-riding peoples threatening China along the northern frontier. These large, powerful, horses were new to China. Traded for luxurious silk, they were the first major import to China from the…

Lady on horseback Tang Dynasty Shaanxi or Henan province China-Photo mharrsch-flickr-

Lang Shining (郎世寧, 1688-1766): "A Piebald Horse (雪點鵰)" at China Online Museum.

c. 700 The tomb figure tradition is considered to have reached its apogee in the Tang dynasty. This horse and rider capture the confident cosmopolitan atmosphere of the capital city Changan: the horse is one of the elegant Ferghana horses, the soldier astride him appears to be of Turkic origin, one of the many races who mingled in the Tang capital. (The rider's felt hood is of a type worn by Central Asian horsemen and riders).

Chinese Bronze Sculpture Galloping Horse exhibited in Gansu Provincial Museum

China's Ancient Tea-horse Road was built in 10th century, with tea and horse trade through Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. Read for its history, routes and heritages.

Chuang Tzu - The Archer's Need to Win

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