"Thousands of miles a day, eight hundred at night" is used to describe the world-famous "sweat and blood BMW", sweat and blood BMW is not only very popular in ancient times, but also loved by people in modern times. Someone has tested the ultimate speed of various horses, and it is said that the average horse can run 150-200 kilometers a day, while the sweat and blood BMW is several times the speed of the ordinary horse. Someone once held a "race", and the sweat and blood BMW set a record, running 4300 kilometers in 84 days. Even if the weather is very hot, you can drink water only once a day. Such horses are called sweat-blooded BMWs because their skin is so thin that you can even see the blood vessels under their skin. And their sweat glands are well developed, and the jujube red horses sweat as if they were bleeding. Hence the Akhalti Golden Horse is also known as the Sweat Blood BMW.
Some archaeologists found a cultural relic about a horse in the burial pit of the Tang Tombs, that is, the Gilded Bronze Horse of the Western Han Dynasty. China's Tang Taizong Li Shimin is a man who loves horses, he began to accompany Tang Gaozong Li Yuan to fight around when he was young, it can be said that most of the Tang Dynasty's rivers and mountains were personally fought down by Li Shimin, he paid a lot for the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, and was the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. The tomb of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, in the vicinity of Xi'an, Shaanxi, is buried here nineteen emperors of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately, because China has always had the existence of tomb robbers, the tombs here except qianling have been invaded by tomb robbers.
Li Shimin's tomb has not escaped the poisonous hands of tomb robbers, Li Shimin's tomb was destroyed by tomb robbers, and even the stone sculptures in the tomb were taken away by tomb robbers. Among these stone sculptures, there are the Six Horses of Zhaoling. The Six Horses of Zhaoling were Tang Taizong's favorite six horses during his lifetime, and these six horses had a profound significance to Tang Taizong, each of which was a horse that accompanied him to the battlefield, and each horse accompanied him for a long time, and was Li Shimin's royal mount. After the death of these horses, Li Shimin ordered these horses to be carved on stone as a memorial, and in this way, the famous Zhaoling Liujun was born. However, unfortunately, in order to facilitate the theft of these stone sculptures, the tomb robbers smashed the Zhaoling Liujun with a hammer and brought them into the market to sell.
Later, Zhaoling Liujun also wandered to the United States, and is still in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. And this gilded bronze horse was unearthed in the burial pit, 76 cm long, 62 cm high, weighing 52 pounds, from the appearance of the horse, this is the "sweat and blood BMW". Such a large gilded bronze horse is still the first time to be found, this gilded bronze horse is now collected in the Maoling Museum in Shaanxi Province, becoming one of the treasures of the town museum, it is said that this gilded bronze horse and Emperor Wu of Han still have a lot of origins.
Legend has it that after Zhang Qian went out to the Western Regions, he saw these BMWs and learned that there were still such good horses in the Western Regions, so he introduced the sweat and blood BMWs to the Central Plains. Horses can be very important in ancient times, horses are not only strong and physically strong, but also a good partner for people to travel long distances, and they are also essential "chariots" in the military. With good horses, it is tantamount to increasing the winning rate on the battlefield, the endurance of the sweat and blood BMW is very strong, although it is not as strong as the horses of the Central Plains, but each has its own strengths, and the arrival of the sweat and blood BMW has brought great benefits to the Han Room. The Han people used sweat and blood horses to improve the breed of horses in the interior, and later Emperor Wu of Han launched a war against the State of Dawan in order to obtain good horses, which lasted for 3 years, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands, but the final result was that the Kingdom of Dawan submitted and was willing to supply horses to the Han Room. And this golden horse is the witness of the exchanges between the two countries at that time, so some people will say that this gilded bronze horse still has a lot of origins with Emperor Wu of Han.
Because of a horse and war, although it sounds a bit one-sided, but the sweat and blood BMW is indeed the fuse of the War between the Western Han Dynasty and the Great Wanguo, the ancient countries for their own interests, often launched wars against the neighboring countries, so the horse has become an important means of military material transportation, the lack of horses in the country, doomed to defeat the country with a large number of horses, so the horse is very important in the minds of the ancient people.