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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3299250, member: 97383"]Loong Siew, You're right about the "heavenly horses". The Chinese valued highly the beautiful & swift horses they got from the tribes of the Western regions. Unlike the Mongolian horses that had short legs & were much slower. About 45 years ago I went to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto for a special exhibition of Chinese artifacts & saw the famous bronze "Flying Horse of Kansu". It was much smaller than I thought but a masterpiece of bronze art. I liked the way the artist set one leg on the back of a bird to show the horse was flying. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Gansu_Museum_2007_257.jpg/1280px-Gansu_Museum_2007_257.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3299250, member: 97383"]Loong Siew, You're right about the "heavenly horses". The Chinese valued highly the beautiful & swift horses they got from the tribes of the Western regions. Unlike the Mongolian horses that had short legs & were much slower. About 45 years ago I went to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto for a special exhibition of Chinese artifacts & saw the famous bronze "Flying Horse of Kansu". It was much smaller than I thought but a masterpiece of bronze art. I liked the way the artist set one leg on the back of a bird to show the horse was flying. :D [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Gansu_Museum_2007_257.jpg/1280px-Gansu_Museum_2007_257.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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