The allusion of "Emperor Ming came to Chang'an to welcome Fei Lian and his bronze horse": In the fifth year of Emperor Yongping's reign, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty went to Chang'an to welcome Fei Lian and his bronze horse, and placed them outside the west gate.
Emperor Ming refers to Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, the fourth son of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Feilian and bronze horses should refer to the bronze galloping horses unearthed in Wuwei, Gansu Province in 1969. They are known as "horses stepping on flying swallows" or "horses surpassing dragon birds". Experts believe that the tomb owner of the bronze galloping horse was a person from the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Jiang, a relative of the emperor, was re-appointed by Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty in his later years. He was worshiped as the prefect of Wuwei and engaged in the smelting and casting industry. The extraordinary momentum of the bronze galloping horse with its head raised and neighing, and its three legs flying into the air are amazing. , whose artistic achievements have reached a very high level in my country's bronze casting technology and smelting technology, and Zhang Jiang earned the nickname "Golden Horse Zhang".
The "Book of Han" records: "The Emperor Ming went to Chang'an to welcome Fei Lian and placed a bronze horse on the west gate. He was optimistic."
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During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhangye was rich in gold and had copper mines. Liangzhou's smelting technology also reached a very high level at that time. Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu was called the "Bronze Horse Emperor". In order to please the emperor, Zhang Jiang wanted to cast a bronze horse and present it to the emperor.
During the Ming Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty, advocating the "Book of Changes" was quite common. Zhang Jiang, the governor of Wuwei, was very knowledgeable about the Book of Changes. He imitated the Tai Chi diagram and used the unique "opposite step" of "Hexi Horse" as the posture, which is "gan".
Based on Liangzhou's "骕骦鸟" as the prototype, "Fei Lian" (the god of wind) in the Qin Dynasty as the posture and "Kun", the "white fish" of Tai Chi evolved into "Lian Bai" The "flying bird" and the "black fish" evolved into the "blue copper galloping horse" to determine the center of gravity, which is a metaphor for the "reincarnation of the universe", which means that the waves behind push the waves ahead, and the weak overcomes the strong.
This inspired Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty: If our Han Dynasty can overthrow the violent Qin, why worry about not being able to defeat the Hungarian and Qiang enemies? When the cast bronze horse was sent to Luoyang, the capital, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was moved. "When Emperor Ming came to Chang'an, he welcomed Fei Lian and the bronze horse, and placed them in Pingguangye" ("Book of the Later Han Dynasty"). History calls it "Liangzhou Gongtianma".
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