What red hare did Guan Yu ride during the Three Kingdoms period?

The red rabbit horse that Guan Yu rode in the Three Kingdoms period belongs to Mongolian horse breed.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the red rabbit horse has always been a good horse that people compete for. It is said that you can walk thousands of miles a day and 800 miles a night. A red hare is a horse with a rabbit head, or half a rabbit head. This kind of horse is a bit like a rabbit's head, because the upper part of its nose protrudes slightly outward.

From a modern point of view, half of rabbit-headed horses are heavy horses. Heavy horses are very strong and belong to the highest breed of horses. At the same time, the coat color of red rabbits in the Three Kingdoms period was purplish red, and horses of this color were generally horses on the grasslands of Central Asia. Therefore, the variety of red rabbit horse is the horse in the ancient western regions of China, which is now the Mongolian horse.

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There has always been such a legend about red hare among the people. In Dongyang Village, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, there is a Jingjue Temple in the south of the village entrance, and there is a Five Tiger Temple in the temple. There are five war horses in the temple, with different shapes, high heads and high hooves, and extraordinary brilliance. The two horses in the east are red and black, and the red one is Master Guan's red rabbit.

Opposite Jingjue Temple is an endless oil-green wheat field. In the early summer of that year, the wheat seedlings in the field grew gratifying, and the owner of the wheat field was even more happy. One morning, the owner of the wheat field went to work in the field and suddenly found that the wheat seedlings were eaten by animals, so he stayed quietly at night.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly saw a horse eating wheat seedlings in the wheat field. The owner of the wheat field hurried to catch it, and the horse disappeared in front of Jingjue Temple. When he entered the temple, he saw a few wheat seedlings in the mouth of the red rabbit. The owner of the wheat field knelt in front of the statue of Guan Gong and told him about it. That night, the owner of the wheat field dreamed that Master Guan told him that he would punish Red Rabbit for farming for three years and let him nail four nails at the feet of Master Guan to the palm of Red Rabbit's hand after three years.

The next day, the owner of the wheat field came to the Five Tiger Temple of Jingjue Temple and saw four nails at the foot of the statue of Master Guan, so he took them home and hid them. In the next three years, autumn ploughing and spring sowing season, I don't know who will plough the land for him. One night three years later, the owner of the wheat field dreamed that Master Guan said to him: The three-year punishment period has passed. When did you nail my four nails to the feet of Red Rabbit?

The next day, at dawn, the owner of the wheat field hurried to the temple. He picked up four nails and nailed three nails on the horseshoe of Red Rabbit. Because the left front hoof of Red Rabbit was hooked, there was no way to nail it. He wants master Guan to give him four nails, which must be used. So he invested in shaping a groom next to the red hare. The groom holds the reins in his left hand and the nails in his right.

From then on, anyone who enters the temple will have a cold war as long as he sees the nail in the groom's hand. After this incident, every year on February 24 th, the temple fair, the goods shed at the entrance of Jingjue Temple was contiguous, and even the baking oven, the nail palm and the rice shed were all in the wheat field. The wheat field was trampled, and the wheat seedlings grew better after the temple fair.

Although there are many people rushing to the temple fair, they are orderly, buying and selling, fair and reasonable, and there is no stealing, cheating or bullying. It is said that this is all because of the shelter of the Five Tigers Hall of Jingjue Temple.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Rabbit Horse (Horse Breed)