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Bo Le, the Glossary

Sun Yang, better known by the honorific name Bole or Bo Le (Po-le) was a horse tamer in Spring and Autumn period, a retainer for the Duke Mu of Qin (r. 659–621 BCE), and a famous judge of horses.^[1]

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body.

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Ask price

Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states they will accept.

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Bi (jade)

The bi (bì) is a type of circular ancient Chinese jade artifact.

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Bladesmith

Bladesmithing is the art of making knives, swords, daggers and other blades using a forge, hammer, anvil, and other smithing tools.

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Book of Jin

The Book of Jin is an official Chinese historical text covering the history of the Jin dynasty from 266 to 420.

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Book of Sui

The Book of Sui is the official history of the Sui dynasty, which ruled China in the years AD 581–618.

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The Book of the Later Han, also known as the History of the Later Han and by its Chinese name Hou Hanshu, is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Later or Eastern Han.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Cavalry tactics

For much of history, humans have used some form of cavalry for war and, as a result, cavalry tactics have evolved over time.

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Cepheus in Chinese astronomy

The modern constellation Cepheus lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.

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Changsha

Changsha is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China.

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Chariot

A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power.

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Chariot tactics

The first evidence of humans using vehicle in warfare are Sumerian depictions of four-wheeled wagons pulled by semi-domesticated onagers.

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Chariots in ancient China

The ancient Chinese chariot was used as an attack and pursuit vehicle on the open fields and plains of ancient China from around 1200 BCE.

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Chengyu

Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four Chinese characters.

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Chinese classics

The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC.

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Chinese given name

Chinese given names are the given names adopted by speakers of the Chinese language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora.

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Chinese honorifics

Chinese honorifics and honorific language are words, word constructs, and expressions in the Chinese language that convey self-deprecation, social respect, politeness, or deference.

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Chu (state)

Chu (Old Chinese: &ast;s-r̥aʔ) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Chunyu Kun

Chunyu Kun (4th century BC) was a wit, Confucian philosopher, emissary, and official during the Chinese Warring States period.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Domestication of the horse

How and when horses became domesticated has been disputed.

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Donghu people

Donghu (IPA) was a tribal confederation of "Hu" (胡) nomadic people that was first recorded from the 7th century BCE and was taken over by the Xiongnu in 150 BCE.

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Duke Mu of Qin

Duke Mu of Qin (died 621BC), born Ying Renhao, was a duke of the Qin state.

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Emperor Guangwu of Han

Emperor Guangwu of Han (15 January 5 BC29 March AD 57), born Liu Xiu (劉秀), courtesy name Wenshu (文叔), was a Chinese monarch.

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Emperor of China

Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.

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Emperor Wu of Han

Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. His reign lasted 54 years – a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later – and remains the record for ethnic Han emperors.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

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Eurasian nomads

The Eurasian nomads were groups of nomadic peoples living throughout the Eurasian Steppe, who are largely known from frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia.

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Flying Horse of Gansu

The Flying Horse of Gansu, also known as the Bronze Running Horse (銅奔馬) or the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow (馬踏飛燕), is a Chinese bronze sculpture from circa the 2nd century CE.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Giambattista della Porta

Giambattista della Porta (1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation.

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Han Feizi

The Han Feizi is an ancient Chinese text attributed to the Legalist political philosopher Han Fei.

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Han Yu

Han Yu (76825 December 824), courtesy name Tuizhi, and commonly known by his posthumous name Han Wengong (韓文公), was an essayist, Confucian scholar, poet, and government official during the Tang dynasty who significantly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism.

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Herrlee G. Creel

Herrlee Glessner Creel (January 19, 1905June 1, 1994) was an American Sinologist and philosopher who specialized in Chinese philosophy and history, and was a professor of Chinese at the University of Chicago for nearly 40 years.

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Hippology

Hippology (from Greek: ἵππος, hippos, "horse"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is the study of the horse - a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae.

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Horse breeding

Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed.

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Horse management

There are many aspects to horse management.

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Horse tack

Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals.

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Horse training

Horse training refers to a variety of practices that teach horses to perform certain behaviors when commanded to do so by humans.

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Horses in Chinese mythology

Horses are an important motif in Chinese mythology.

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Huainanzi

The Huainanzi is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of essays that resulted from a series of scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, sometime before 139 BCE.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese name

in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name.

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Jixia Academy

The Jixia Academy or Academy of the Gate of ChiNeedham, Joseph.

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King Mu of Zhou

King Mu of Zhou, personal name Ji Man, was the fifth king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

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King Wuling of Zhao

King Wuling of Zhao (died 295 BCE, r. 325–299 BCE), personal name Zhao Yong, was a ruler of the Zhao state.

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Kyoto University

, or, is a national research university located in Kyoto, Japan.

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Lüshi Chunqiu

The Lüshi Chunqiu, also known in English as Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239BC under the patronage of late pre-imperial Qin Chancellor Lü Buwei.

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Legalism (Chinese philosophy)

Fajia, or the School of fa (laws,methods), often translated as Legalism, is a school of mainly Warring States period classical Chinese philosophy, whose ideas contributed greatly to the formation of the bureaucratic Chinese empire, and Daoism as prominent in the early Han.

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Li (unit)

Li (lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, is a traditional Chinese unit of distance.

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Liang dynasty

The Liang dynasty, alternatively known as the Southern Liang or Xiao Liang in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.

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Liezi

The Liezi is a Taoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a c. 5th century BC Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher. Bo Le and Liezi are Taoist philosophy.

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Lord Chunshen

Lord Chunshen (died 238 BC), born Huang Xie,was a Chinese military general and politician.

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Ma Yuan (Han dynasty)

Ma Yuan (14 BC – 49 AD), courtesy name Wenyuan, also known by his official title Fubo Jiangjun (伏波将军; "General who Calms the Waves"), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Eastern Han dynasty. Bo Le and ma Yuan (Han dynasty) are Deified Chinese men.

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Mawangdui Silk Texts

The Mawangdui Silk Texts are Chinese philosophical and medical works written on silk which were discovered at the Mawangdui site in Changsha, Hunan, in 1973.

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Mounted archery

Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback.

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Ou Yezi

Ou Yezi was a legendary master of sword-making in the Spring and Autumn period.

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Physiognomy

Physiognomy (from the Greek φύσις,, meaning "nature", and, meaning "judge" or "interpreter") or face reading is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance—especially the face.

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Picul

A picul or tam is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole".

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Qi (state)

Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a regional state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, whose rulers held titles of Hou (侯), then Gong, before declaring themselves independent Kings.

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Qimin Yaoshu

The Qimin Yaoshu, translated as the "Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People", is the most completely preserved of the ancient Chinese agricultural texts, and was written by the Northern Wei Dynasty official Jia Sixie, a native of Shouguang, Shandong province, which is a major agricultural producing region.

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Red Hare

The Red Hare or Chi Tu was a famous horse owned by the warlord Lü Bu, who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.

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Robert E. Harrist

Robert E. Harrist Jr. (born 1951) is Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University.

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Scholar-official

The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats, were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class.

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Scorpius in Chinese astronomy

The name of the IAU constellation Scorpius in modern Chinese is 天蝎座 (tiān xiē zuò).

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.

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Shuowen Jiezi

The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).

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Su Qin

Su Qin (380–284 BCE) was a Chinese political consultant and philosopher who was an influential political strategist during the Warring States period.

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Sui dynasty

The Sui dynasty was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 581 to 618.

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Sun (surname)

Sun is a transliteration of a common Chinese surname (simplified Chinese: 孙; traditional Chinese: 孫; pinyin: Sūn).

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Taihang Mountains

The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tao

In various Chinese religions and philosophies, the Tao or Dao is the natural lessons of the universe that one's intuition must discern to realize the potential for individual wisdom and spiritual growth, as conceived in the context of East Asian philosophy, religion, and related traditions. This seeing of life cannot be grasped as a concept. Bo Le and Tao are Taoist philosophy.

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Taoism

Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.

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Tianma

Tianma (天馬, "heavenly horse") was a winged (perhaps metaphorically) flying horse in Chinese folklore. Bo Le and Tianma are horses in Chinese mythology.

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Veterinarian

A veterinarian (vet) is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals.

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Wu Ding

Wu Ding (died); personal name (子昭), was a king of the Chinese Shang dynasty who ruled the central Yellow River valley 1200 BCE.

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Yan (state)

Yan (Old Chinese pronunciation: *) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Yin and yang

Yin and yang, also yinyang or yin-yang, is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle.

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Zaofu

Zaofu, formerly romanized Tsao Fu, was an exceptionally-skilled charioteer who is said to have lived around 950 BC. Bo Le and Zaofu are horses in Chinese mythology.

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Zeta Cephei

Zeta Cephei (ζ Cep, ζ Cephei) is a red supergiant star, located about 1000 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus.

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Zhan Guo Ce

The Zhan Guo Ce (W-G: Chan-kuo T'se), also known in English as the Strategies of the Warring States or Annals of the Warring States, is an ancient Chinese text that contains anecdotes of political manipulation and warfare during the Warring States period (5th to 3rd centuriesBC).

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