A historical story about feiyan riding a horse.

According to legend, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a general Zhang in the army of General Huo Qubing. After Wuwei set up a county, he settled down there. He has two sons, the eldest son Zhang Wu and the youngest son Andy. The moral is obvious. He wants to make a contribution here and exert his influence everywhere.

The eldest son loves literature and hates literature, while the younger son loves sports and martial arts, especially horses, horses painting and horses carving.

The two brothers have different ambitions, so they often quarrel and even punch each other.

The two brothers fought again. Zhang Wu, the eldest brother, was no match for Andy. He was beaten black and blue, and he held a grudge from then on.

When Andy is away, burn the carved horse he painted.

When Andy came back, he cried angrily and tried to burn his brother's manuscripts and books.

Then go to your friend and talk about being an unbreakable horse.

Knowing that his youngest son loves horses, the father asked someone to bring a famous painter's Tianma.

As soon as Andy got the treasure, he found his good friend, sat around Leitai Lake and began to imitate Tianma.

They are carving and kneading.

The red soil of Leitai Lake has been dug car after car, and the waste mud has piled up into mountains, and the horses that have been squeezed out will never run; Stone slag piled up into ridges, and the carved Tianma still couldn't fly.

At this time, stable boy was rushing to drink water by Malay Lake. He saw a red light flashing in the lake. A fiery red horse flew down Qilian Mountain and instantly arrived at Leitai Lake, scaring away the horse swimming in the water.

Andy looked at the sudden bordeaux horse and thought it must be something.

In full view, Shenma came to Leitai Lake to drink the water.

Shenma drank saliva, looked up and looked around.

Andy carefully observed Shenma, only to see its majestic physique, eyes like golden beads, mane like lion hair, like a volcano.

Andy think this god horse is familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.

By contrast, this horse is exactly the same as the Tianma drawn by my father.

So he whispered to his friend, trying to catch something.

Before Andy acted, Tianma came to him.

Andy saw Tianma coming towards him, so he boldly tried to mount the horse and pointed at Qilian Mountain. It trotted to the top of the mountain, then pointed to Leitai Lake and returned to the lake in the blink of an eye.

From then on, Andy rode a heavenly horse into the world.

When my brother Zhang Wu heard about his brother's horse, he had evil thoughts: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved horses. Why not give Tianma to the emperor and take another official position? So he conspired to keep his brother at home and ride a horse to see the emperor.

When Zhang Wu was released, he knew he couldn't go back, so he had to work hard with his friends to cast a bronze horse.

One afternoon, he was carving a blank horse in his hand. Suddenly, a shadow covered him. He looked up and saw a strange bird flying over the lake.

Suddenly, a yellow wind blew the horse blank in his hand into the lake, and a water column rose in the lake, from which a horse flashed.

Andy was surprised. He saw that Tianma was back.

There has been a good rain since Tianma came to the lake last time. It's windy these days.

Just as a few clouds floated in the sky, a strange bird appeared. After a while, the clouds disappeared and were replaced by the yellow wind.

The wind was dry and hot. It blew for several days and dried all the green crops.

According to the old people, it didn't rain, but the Dragon King fell asleep. Andy looked at Tianma and thought: Since it is a Tianma, it has the ability to enter the earth. Why don't I ride Tianma to the Dragon Palace to ask the Dragon King for rain? At this time, the strange bird appeared in the sky again, and then a hot wind blew.

Andy mounted his horse and flew towards the strange bird.

Chasing all the way to the entrance of the Dragon Palace, the strange bird flew into the Dragon Palace, but was stopped by the guards.

At this time, I heard the strange bird's cry again, and saw the dragon king and the dragon prince coming out of the palace to play with the god bird.

It turns out that that strange bird is the pet of the dragon prince.

Seeing Andy, he shouted, "Whose child is this?" Andy explained his purpose.

At this point, the dragon prince ignored his god bird and stared at Tianma.

He looked at it for a long time, then turned to the Dragon King and said, "Dad, I want this horse!" " "But how can Andy give it? Even though the Dragon King paid a high price for this, he finally offered to exchange the Dragon King's dragon finch, saying that the dragon finch flew faster than Tianma.

As soon as Tianma heard that the Dragon King looked down on himself, he held his head high and rang loudly to show his resistance.

Prince Long said to Andy, "Does your heavenly horse dare to compete with my divine bird?" Andy frowned: "How can I bear to tease when my hometown is affected!" "As long as there are my birds in your Marseille, I will bring clouds and rain to your hometown.

But if you lose, your horse is mine.

"The dragon king said.

Before Andy could speak, the Dragon Palace shook with a loud noise.

Andy said, "If the game can be held, I have one condition. If the horse race passes the dragonfly, the Dragon King will save his hometown from disaster and the weather will be good.

"The dragon king agreed to Andy's terms and set off with his entourage, thunder and lightning.

At the command, the bird took off first, and Tianma ran on the flat ground for a while before flying into the air.

The bird was always ahead, but then it was exhausted. Seeing that Tianma was not tired, he flew to the mountain of Qitian. At the end of the competition, Tianma brushed past the God Bird with lightning speed, and the God Bird surpassed by Tianma refused to accept it. It struggled to recover and hit Tianma's hind hoof.

Suddenly, there was a bolt from the blue, lightning and thunder, and a huge fire rose from the top of the mountain. Tianma stepped on the bird and gently slid from the dazzling fire to Leitai Lake.

Before people could understand what was going on, a tall tower suddenly rose in the middle of Leitai Lake. The towering horse with bird's hoof stood on the top of the tower, still as heroic as when it was alive.

Later, the villagers renovated and strengthened the Leitai together, and built a horseshoe temple on the Qilian Mountain where Tianma trampled the sparrow to death.

Since then, Wuwei has a good weather and a long life!

Extended data:

Mata Yan Fei, also known as "Malone Chaoque" and "Tongmaben", is a bronze ware of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was unearthed from Leitai Tomb in Wuwei, Gansu Province 1969.

Zhang, a military general guarding Zhangye in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was buried with his wife in this mausoleum, which is now located in the Gansu Provincial Museum.

The galloping horse is 34.5cm high, 45cm long and 13cm wide.

Its bold creativity and romantic techniques give people a thrilling feeling, which is amazing.

Ancient artists vividly demonstrated the agility and quickness of Tianma in an instant, and embodied the spirit of striving for progress and heroic progress in the Han Dynasty. Apart from being a fine work of art, some people think it is a French-style horse.

In fact, the running posture of bronze galloping horse is very strange. It is neither a galloping posture nor a galloping posture.

The left front hoof and right rear hoof of bronze galloping horse are typical "galloping horse" postures, that is, the front hoof bends and leaps, and the rear hoof pushes out forcefully.

The right front hoof and the left rear hoof walk in the opposite direction, which is the "reverse step" when riding.

In order to keep the balance of bronze galloping horse, the horse's limbs were lengthened and the horseshoe was raised to the level of chest.

You can't find a horse with this running posture in real life.

In this way, it is impossible to regard it as a bronze horse with fragrant horses.

Li Xueqin, a professor in Tsinghua University, thinks that this bronze galloping horse in Wuwei is a special bronze, not a practical one, nor a funerary object specially made for human sacrifice.

Its symbolic image is "Tianma", that is, "blood horse".

This is a specialty of the Silk Road, which started in the Han Dynasty and led to the western regions and Europe.

The custom of worshipping horses prevailed in the Han Dynasty, when "Tianma" was honored as "Mazu God" by the common people.

The specific image characteristics of "Mazu God" are not recorded in historical materials, but the possibility that the ancients used bronze horses to symbolize the "house star" in the sky, that is, "Mazu God", is not ruled out.

When the bronze galloping horse was unearthed, archaeologists found obvious painting marks on its head and back.

In the Han dynasty, it was quite common to depict and decorate painted patterns on bronze horses or wooden horses used for martyrdom in northwest China.

This kind of decoration is called "moire", which is a kind of "feather wing" displayed on "Ma Shen", which can make "Ma Shen" spread its wings and fly.