What is the saying about tying horses?

"Iron Horse Pile" is a kind of folk stone carving widely spread in rural areas of Weinan, Shaanxi Province, also known as "Iron Horse Stone". At present, Guanzhong Folk Museum has the largest number of horse stakes, and there are more than 8,600 horse stakes in Guanzhong Folk Museum.

A pile of stones used to tie horses, cows and other livestock in front of the farmhouse. The beautifully carved Mazar piles are called "sample piles" and "surface piles". Most of the stones used to tie horse piles are gray bluestone and black bluestone, and a few are fine sandstone. Generally, the big one is about 300 cm tall, the middle one is about 260 cm tall, and the small one is about 230 cm tall.

origin

Since humans domesticated horses and rode and transported them, tying horse stakes has become essential. At first, there was no fixed halter, a tree, a stake or a stone, as long as the halter could be fixed.

Now there stands an irregular rectangular stone pillar in Hulun Lake, Mongolia, which is said to be the horse-tied pile of Genghis Khan, a generation of Tianjiao, and may also be the prototype of the horse-tied pile in Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, horse-tied stakes were very common in stone carvings. After the Republic of China, new means of transportation, such as cars, gradually replaced horse riding, and the number of stakes tied to horses gradually decreased.