{"id":13022,"date":"2019-11-18T22:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-literature-2\/xiang-ma-jing-xiang-ma-jing\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:37:38","slug":"xiang-ma-jing-xiang-ma-jing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/xiang-ma-jing-xiang-ma-jing\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiang Ma Jing \u76f8\u9a6c\u7ecf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The earliest book on science of animal husbandry in China elaborating the way to tell good horses from the inferior o<em><\/em>nes is Xiang Ma Jing (Classics of Identifying the Thoroughbred). Xiang Ma Jing(\u76f8\u9a6c\u7ecf xi&agrave;ngm\u01cej\u012bng) said to be the work of an unknown author in the State of Chu(\u695a\u56fd Ch\u01d4gu&oacute;) in the late Warring States Period(\u6218\u56fd\u665a\u671f Zh&agrave;ngu&oacute; w\u01cenq\u012b). The book was later lost. People of later generations could o<em><\/em>nly read from ancient records a<em><\/em>bout the book without knowing its specific contents. In 1973, archaeologists found in Mawangdui Han Tomb No.3(\u9a6c\u738b\u5806\u4e09\u53f7\u6c49\u5893 m\u01cew&aacute;ngdu\u012b s\u0101nh&agrave;o h&agrave;nm&ugrave;) in Changsha(\u957f\u6c99 Ch&aacute;ngsh\u0101), Hunan(\u6e56\u5357 H&uacute;n&aacute;n) a silk manus<em><\/em>cript that was co<em><\/em>nfirmed to be the long lost Xiang Ma Jing. The book co<em><\/em>ntains three chapters in 77 lines, totaling up to over 5200 characters. The first chapter states how Bo Le(\u4f2f\u4e50 B&oacute; L&egrave;) identifies a good horse; the second chapter tells how to tell a good horse from its eyes, that is to say, to co<em><\/em>nduct a comprehensive research on the size, fullness, luster, movement of horse eyes as well as the eyelashes and ocular muscles to judge the physical ability and running speed of a horse; finally, the last chapter serves as an interpretation to Chapter One.<\/p>\n<p>  There is no doubt that the earliest book on horse science in China &#8211; Xiang Ma Jing has exerted great influence on the research of the ancient Chinese graziery.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1833240901\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest book on science of animal husbandry in China elaborating the way to tell good horses from the inferior<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2847],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-literature","category-chinese-poems","tag-ancient-chinese"],"views":256,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}