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Instead, China is home to a diverse array of pony breeds and types, likely of Mongolian origin, which have been influenced by other breeds, notably Russian and European horses, through migration and military history. [6] By convention, Chinese zootechnicians categorize horses into native Chinese breeds and "hybrid breeds," resulting from ...
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).
Most Japanese horses are descended from Chinese and Korean imports, and there was some cross-breeding with indigenous horses which had existed in Japan since the Stone Age. [19] Although records of horses in Japan are found as far back as the Jōmon period , they played little or no role in early Japanese agriculture or military conflicts until ...
The Flying Horse of Gansu, [1] also known as the Bronze Running Horse (銅奔馬) or the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow (馬踏飛燕), is a Chinese bronze sculpture from circa the 2nd century CE.
The forelegs of the Chinese depictions are very straight, resembling the Guoxia horse of present-day China. According to tradition, these horses sweated blood, giving rise to the name "sweats blood horse" (in Chinese: 汗血馬; pinyin: hànxuèmǎ). Modern authorities believe that blood-sucking parasites caused sweat to mix with blood when the ...
The genomic evidence showed that horses were first domesticated in Central Asia - northern Kazakhstan to be precise - about 5,500 years ago by people from what is called the Botai culture.
History offers many examples of horse cultures, such as the Huns and other peoples in Europe and Asia. Horse cultures tend to place a great deal of importance on horses and by their very nature are nomadic and usually hunter-gatherer or nomadic pastoralist societies. For example, the arrival of the horse in the Americas altered the cultures of ...