"I heard that Yunnan people go out to ride elephants?"
"I heard that the Yunnan college entrance examination project has an elephant riding?"
......
As a native of Yunnan
You must be familiar with such a stem
But I want to tell you
Going out and riding an elephant
It's not really a terrier!
unbelief?
Let's take a look at this preservation
In the Yunnan Provincial Museum
"Multiplication Image" first let's take a look at the partial map▼
There are two elephants depicted in the "Elephant Picture" on the top of this elephant looking back at the side view on the back of a saddle sitting in an old lady, a young woman holding a baby, and a playful child saddle with umbrellas, food, baggage, water cans and other items sitting on the neck of the elephant in front of the saddle And today's special car travel compared to the "elephant car" can pull the wind More wood?
Look at another elephant in the lower picture riding two barrels around the neck of a man wearing a bucket, a man who looks like a merchant transporting goods
How can you catch the elephant yourself to deliver the goods? Is this it?
The legendary "old driver"?
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Enjoy it together
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Since ancient times, yunnan people and elephants have always had a delicate friendship The Han Dynasty Sima Qian's "History of Dawan Lie" once recorded that "there is an elephant country, the name is about Dianyue" "Yunnan Hai Yu Hengzhi" Volume VII records that "elephant out of Yunnan Toast" Sima Qian said that The Dianyue is today's Yunnan docile elephant is a respected animal of all ethnic groups in Yunnan
"Yunnan Hai Yu Hengzhi" source Yunnan Daily
Bronze statue of riding elephant figure 19th century height 21.5 cm Yunnan Provincial Museum Collection Xing Yi photography in the production life of the ancient Dian people Elephant is an indispensable important means of production of heavy and far-reaching like the cattle and horses of the Central Plains "riding elephants" and "elephant farming" is one of the most typical cultural characteristics
Ivory carving Yunmu figure late 19th century length 23.3 cm Yunnan Provincial Museum collection Xing Yi photography
In wars around Yunnan, elephants are often tamed to fight bravely
Romance of the Three Kingdoms comic strip
Elephant battle scene in "Zhuge Liang's Seven Captures of Meng"
It is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people
Source: Yunnan Daily
There are many records of elephants in the old records of Yunnan, "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Tale of the Southwest Yi: Mourning out of the Rhinoceros and Elephants." Du Pre's "Spring and Autumn Interpretation": The black man Pu is in the southwest of Yongchang, and his realm is out of the rhinoceros and elephant. "Book of Tang Nan Man Biography": Yimu searched for Xie Tianzi Elephant and Rhinoceros. Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in the "Explanation of Words and Characters": Elephant, the greater beast of the South China.
In 1639, Xu Xiake saw it with his own eyes on his travels: "The eighth day of the first month of August... Gangtou has a village, leaning on the east of Xigang, which is the place of elephant villages, which has not been changed when the tu chieftain Meng Tingrui animal elephants. ”
In addition, elephants and Kunming are also "deeply related" living in Kunming, do you know that there is a street in Kunming called Elephant Eye Street
This street is only 229 meters long
Documenting the "origins" of Kunming and elephants
Elephant Eye Street hidden in downtown Kunming
It is bordered to the south by Weiyuan Street
Beitong Middle Renmin Road
Elephant Eye Street location
past
Elephant Eye Street was once renamed Parrot Flower Street
Because this street is lined with the Yunnan Garrison Mansion and the Fantai Yamen
There are thorny flowers blooming out of the wall
Thorny flowers
Kunming people call it Parrot Flower
That's why this street got its name, Parrot Flower Street
But
Folk are still customarily called Elephant Eye Street
Why is it called Elephant Eye Street?
Elephant Eye Street
Some people say that because in the past, the bluestone slab of this street shop had a naturally formed pattern like an elephant's head, of which the elephant's eye was particularly obvious, so it was named Elephant's Eye Street, and some said that it was because the elephant passed through here and knelt down, and when the elephant got up, the stonemason chiseled out an elephant head pattern on the ground This pattern is also prominent elephant eye, so it is called elephant eye street
Either way, elephant eye street and elephants do have a relationship, this is a historical fact
In fact
Elephant Eye Street in Kunming
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the location of the elephant house of the Yunnan Provincial Bureau
The so-called elephant house
It is the garden and house where the elephants are kept
Raise domesticated elephants from frontiers or friendly neighbors to pay tribute
Elephant houses are tall and the gardens are spacious
There are ponds and meadows and woods
For elephants to walk around
Former Kunming people
You can also see elephants bathing in the Panlong River
Imagine this picture
Must be a sensation in the city!
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Infographic
In the Ming Dynasty, Kunming had a bamboo branch word
It is written about the elephant bathing in the Panlong River
Panjiang light shade sandwich green locust, incense car bamboo shoot car brocade pile.
Thousands of dollars to sit in the window of the building, only for the river to wash the elephants.
It can be seen that there are elephants in Elephant Eye Street, which can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty.
It is said that the elephant house in Elephant Eye Street has raised more than 30 elephants at the most, and the elephant house cannot be closed, and an elephant house is built near the gate of Baoguo Temple. Among them, the oldest elephant was given to Mu Tianbo, the last Duke of Qianguo of the Mu clan by the head of Burma, who experienced historical upheavals such as Wu Sangui's entry into Yunnan, the refuge of the Yongli Emperor in Burma, and the alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and finally died in the elephant house of Elephant Eye Street.
Thus
Yunnan people and elephants can be described
An indissoluble relationship that has lasted for a thousand years
Human-elephant harmony coexists
It is the common aspiration of all people
Source: China Civilization Network, Kunming Information Harbor, People's Daily, Wireless Kunming, Yunnan Daily client