久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Culture
Home / Culture / Heritage

The four-footed legends of the silk road

By Zhao Xu | China Daily | Updated: 2018-05-26 09:19
Share
Share - WeChat
Han Dynasty painted wooden horse, unearthed in Gansu province.[Photo provided to China Daily]

In ancient China animals did a lot of the economic heavy lifting and made a great contribution to art

In Western mythology the most famous horse is that of Troy, the giant wooden ruse that the Greeks used to wrong-foot their enemy.

If there is any equine image in the East that can match the stature of its Western counterpart, it is probably that of the "heavenly horses" - horses that once traveled the ancient Silk Road connecting the Chinese empire with the vast land lying to its west.

And if the Trojan horse embodied military subterfuge, then the heavenly horses, tianma, represented raw speed and stamina. The latter have also spawned numerous works of art, ones that remind us not only of a powerful ruler's ambition but also of the transcontinental trade route this ambition eventually gave birth to.

That ruler was Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), under whose reign China gained prosperity and might that was without precedent. Mindful of the constant harassment of his country by the steppe nomads, Wudi sought to solve the issue once and for all, by forming an invincible cavalry that could strike with the same lightning speed as had those fierce horsemen. (These nomads, known as Xiongnu, had once laid siege to his great-grandfather and founder of the Han Empire.)

To do that he needed the warhorse, a breed native to the kingdom of Da Yuan, a Central Asian country in the Ferghana Valley. So around 139 BC the emperor sent out a convoy headed by a man named Zhang Qian on a westward journey that eventually took them to Central Asia. Their two most important tasks: to seek a military alliance with other countries at enmity with Xiongnu and to look for the reputed horses.

During an eventful journey that lasted 13 years, Zhang Qian was captured by Xiongnu twice. When he arrived back in the Han capital in 126 BC he was accompanied by just one man - and there were no horses.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next   >>|
Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日本 国产 欧美 | 免费观看一级成人毛片 | aaa在线观看高清免费 | 亚洲国产成人私人影院 | 久久99视频免费 | 精品在线小视频 | 国产在线一区二区三区在线 | 亚洲国产99在线精品一区二区 | 黄色三级网站免费 | 91亚洲精品国产第一区 | 久草资源在线观看 | 久久免费99精品久久久久久 | 草久网 | 欧美黑人性xxx猛交 欧美很黄视频在线观看 | 久久99一区| 92看片淫黄大片看国产片 | 天天看有黄有色大片 | 国产美女在线精品观看 | 亚洲男同可播放videos | 亚洲在成人网在线看 | 美美女高清毛片视频黄的一免费 | 真人毛片免费全部播放完整 | 国产成人午夜精品免费视频 | 天天噜夜夜操 | 精品成人毛片一区二区视 | 一级做a爰在线就看 | 高清韩国a级特黄毛片 | 久久久久依人综合影院 | 免费看特级毛片 | 曰本女人色黄网站 | 久久永久免费视频 | 日韩毛片久久91 | 久久草在线视频免费 | 日韩欧美亚洲视频 | 看真人视频a级毛片 | 国产伦精品一区二区三区网站 | 波多野结衣一区二区三区在线观看 | 亚洲成人一区 | 99精品视频在线在线视频观看 | 91精品啪在线看国产网站 | 日本天堂免费 |