Horse

The horse is one of the animals of more late incorporation to the Chinese culture. If, as some students say, the system of 12 animals in the Chinese horoscope originated in the peoples who were living to the north, in the steppes and deserts that are beyond the big wall, the inclusion of the horse between these fundamental animals, it seems well-taken. Formerly the Chinese were using the horse not neither for the war, nor for the agriculture. In the warlike aspect, only they were using him as an animal that was pulling a car since until the century three or four of our age the force of the armies was measured by the number of cars with which it was provided. Every car, it was usually occupied by three persons, one guiding him, other one shooting dates and other one possibly with a spear. About every car there was up to 100 infantry persons, therefore when we read that an army was provided with 100 cars he says to us in fact that it was provided with 10.000 warriors.

The horse on the other hand was used extensively for the war and the transport for the peoples of the north and northwest of China. Precisely the kingdoms through that they were living in the frontier regions with these peoples were the first ones in discovering the superiority of the horse on the car, realizing a series of adaptations not only in the transport of the war, but also in the clothing, which was allowing the movements of the rider, and even in the weapon to be used.

The races of present horses in China have never been neither so strong or fast like those who existed beyond his borders. Precisely it is thought that the need to obtain the famous horses of the region of Fhergana, was one of the motives that even the first expeditions that opened the one that would finish with being called the route of the silk.

Between the Mongols the horse is one of the animals with major symbolic and ritual importance, the ceremony of dominated "sacrifice of the horse" is one of the most solemn between them.

The kingdom of Nanzhao that bloomed in the region of Yunnan of the eighth century to the tenth one, was famous also for his horses. His precisely the commerce of these animals was one of the bases of his prosperity.

A legend China on the origin of the silk tells how a girl, longing for the return of his father who had gone out to the war, promised aloud that he would marry the one who was bringing to him back his father. Ear this for the horse of the family, this one went out in search of the father. When it found him it made him return to house. Since then the horse was looking at the girl with pitiful air. When the father asked about the cause, they thought that it could be only because, having listened to the oath, he was hoping to get engaged to his daughter. Logically they corrected his pretensions of absurd, and even gave death to the horse, skinning him. One day, the girl, on having seen the skin of the horse put to the sun, began trampling on it saying: "and you wanted still to marry me". Then suddenly the girl wrapped the skin and they disappeared together. Time later they appeared on a tree, where they were forming a silkworms couple.

The horse has been a protagonist of one of the most curious debates of the history of the Chinese philosophy, that one in which Gongsun Long tries to demonstrate how absurd it is to affirm the existence of a white horse, since in his opinion both extracts cannot express themselves simultaneously, that of horse and that of target.

The horse also has a leading role in the history of the diffusion of the Buddhism. So since this religion was coming from the India, an important part of the first relations with this religious center, they took a traveling monk as a protagonist on a horse. It is not a coincidence that the first temple Buddhist founded on China with the approval of the emperor is named a Temple of the White Horse.

Between the minorities of the south of China, there are numerous that it celebrates horse racings during his most important holidays.

Also, in general they consider him to be an animal auspicioso, therefore it is not strange that festivities are realized in one day horse, as they are accustomed:  

• The Achang in the Holiday of the Mother Adores Earth

• The Bulang in the Holiday of the Tree Dragon

• The Kucong in the Holiday of New Year

Also, in several provinces of the center of China the Day of the Horse is celebrated, on lunar June 6. During this day, as to the cows in his, one exempts them of working to the horses, and one treats them with the biggest caress, more in fact, in most of the holidays and ceremonies of the peoples of China, the horse has a stellar participation. Since in China we are ruled by the lunar calendar, and in Occident by the lot, the beginning and end of every year does not coincide exactly. Therefore, before knowing what says the Chinese horoscope on your sign, make sure that really you have been born under the sign of the Horse, as they it are the born persons in the dates included in the table of the left.

25-1-1906 12-2-1907 Fire
11-2-1918 to 31-1-1919 Earth
30-1-1930 16-2-1931 Metal
15-2-1942 to 4-2-1943 Waters down
3-2-1954 23-1-1955 Madeira
21-1-1966 to 8-2-1967 Fire
7-2-1978 to 27-1-1979 Earth
27-1-1990 14-2-1991 Metal

To complete your cosmic profile it is necessary to know the influence of Five Elements on your life. He verifies in the top table the element to which you belong. The hour of birth also has big influence on the character of the person.

In general it is considered that the born during the hour wu (from 11 of the morning to 1 of the evening) acquire some qualities of the horse, and are usually more impetuous than the born at other hours.

The persons born under the sign of the horse you usually have an independent and vigorous character. Rapids of thought and of action, it has no compassion with the one who cannot continue his steps. Impatient, but slightly assiduous, they need in fact, the guide of others to reach the success. It does not also turn out to be easy to listen to the opinions about others to them, since they prefer to trust in his intuition.

They live in harmony with: Tiger, dog and sheep.

Conflicts arise with: Rat, Ox

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