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Chinese dragon-horse (longma). While horses feature in various beliefs and traditions, they do not hold the same significance in Chinese culture as mythological animals such as cranes, phoenixes, dragons, and tigers. [19] The association of the qilin with the unicorn—and by extension, the horse—remains a subject of debate.
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.
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).
In 2002, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China included the Gansu Flying Horse in the inaugural list of 64 grade-one cultural relics that are forbidden to be taken out of mainland China for exhibition. [6] [7] Flying Horse of Gansu replica in Lexington Kentucky USA
The Ordos are mainly known from their skeletal remains and artifacts. The Ordos culture of about 500 BCE to 100 CE is known for its "Ordos bronzes", blade weapons, finials for tent-poles, horse gear, and small plaques and fittings for clothes and horse harness, using animal style decoration with relationships both with the Scythian art of regions much further west, and also Chinese art.
The practice of horse burial is bound to the historical territory covered by the domesticated horse, which initially was the Eurasian Steppe, ca. 4000–3500 BCE.Early cultures with a mythology that would support horse burial are those in or bordering those areas—Turkic cultures, [3] [7] Chinese cultures, [8] and Indo-European cultures.
An important aspect of Chinese culture is the zodiac, which is based on a 12-year cycle. Said to have originated from a Chinese Poem about 12 animals that came from the heavens to help farmers ...
The Chakouyi (simplified Chinese: 岔口驿马; traditional Chinese: 岔口驛馬; pinyin: Chàkǒu yì mǎ), or Chakou post horse, is a horse breed native to Gansu, China, whose history is linked to the Silk Road and the development of post houses in China. This small, ambling saddle horse has endured to the present day, although the breed's ...