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Chinese pottery horse, detail. In the study of historical Chinese culture, many of the stories that have been told regarding characters and events which have been written or told of the distant past have a double tradition: one tradition in which presents a more historicized version and one which presents a more mythological version (Yang 2005:12-13).
The horse emerged as a distinct artistic subject early in Chinese history. [17] A distinctive characteristic of Chinese art is the frequent depiction of horses in a natural state, reflecting a profound admiration for the horse as an entity in itself.
Horse coin; Horses in ancient and Imperial China; Horses in Chinese culture; S. The Son of a Horse (Chinese folktale) T. Tea Horse Road; W. White Horse Dialogue; Z ...
Horses in ancient and Imperial China were an important element in Chinese society on cultural, military, and agricultural levels. [1] Horses were introduced from the West, disrupting methods of warfare, and forcing local warring states to adopt new military practices such as chariots (c. 1000 BC [2]) and cavalry.
This is a list of horse breeds usually considered to originate or to have developed in the People's Republic of China, including Tibet.. Chinese sources distinguish between native or indigenous breeds, which have been influenced little or not at all by imported foreign stock, and 'developed' breeds resulting from inter-breeding of native and imported breeds.
Bole is frequently associated with the fabled qianlima (Chinese: 千里馬) "thousand-miles horse", which was supposedly able to gallop one thousand li (approximately 400 km) in a single day (e.g. Red Hare, sweats blood horse). Qianlima was a literary Chinese word for people with latent talent and ability; and Spring (1988:180) suggests, "For ...
Loaded camel with rider, in this case Chinese Horse riders Horse and saddle The most common animals, and the most likely to be large and carefully modelled and decorated, are horses and camels. Both sorts range from animals without harness and saddlery to those with elaborately detailed trappings, and carrying riders or, in the case of camels ...
Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to ...