The three-color three-flowered horse is tall and glazed. It stands on the pedals with four legs, erect ears and bright eyes. The horse's mane is trimmed into bangs style, and the horse's mane is trimmed into the "official style" that was popular at the time - the three-flower style. The horse's head is decorated with green splits and almond leaf-style decorations. The horse's mouth is slightly open. The ponytail is carefully combed and knotted. Upturned. The saddle is covered with green mud.
Three flowers were a popular palace style during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The literati Guo Ruoxian once said: "Tang Kaiyuan Tianbao, peace and prosperity, the world is still light and fat, three flowers are decorated with horses." He also clearly pointed out that the so-called "three flowers" are to cut the horse's mane into "three braids". The images of horses in the famous Zhaoling Six Horses stone carvings are also cut into three flowers. Various decorations on horses are described in Tang poetry.
As for the three-flowered horse that was popular in the Tang Dynasty, there is a line in Tang Bai Juyi's poem "Feng Jian writes five colors, and the horse's mane is cut with three flowers"; the green mud on the saddle is mentioned in Li Bai's poem "White Nose" There is also a poem about "green ground blocking mud brocade"; about the bridle decorations on the horse's head and body, there is a poem about "apricot leaves wearing golden bridles" in Wang Bo's "Spring Thoughts"~