Six Horses in Zhaoling refers to six relief stone carvings on the east and west sides of the north altar of Zhaoling in Li Shimin Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong in Liquan, Shaanxi Province.
Each stone carving in Zhaoling Liu Jun is about 2m wide and1.7m high. "Six Horses in Zhaoling" is a precious ancient stone carving art treasure with beautiful shape, smooth carving lines and fine and round knives.
Li Shimin rode six horses before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. They were named Fist Mao, Shifakai, Baijiaowu, Tale, Qing Xiang and Zijuan respectively. In order to commemorate these six war horses, the craftsman Yan Lide (the younger brother of Yan) and the painter Yan drew the relief of six war horses in front of the mausoleum.
This group of stone carvings shows the heroic spirit of the war horse that Emperor Taizong rode in the great cause of the founding of the People's Republic of China. June's "Saluz" and "Boxing Hair _" were smashed, packed and smuggled to the United States in 2004, and are now in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The other four pieces were also broken packages and were intercepted in the process of smuggling. Now they are displayed in Xi 'an Beilin Museum.
Luo Zhenyu recorded in his book "The Record of the Stone Corner" that Yuan Shikai's son Yuan ordered a cultural relic merchant to transport six horses from Zhaoling to Huanshang Village, but the cultural relic merchant sawed them off because the two stones "Zalouzi" and "Quanmao _" were heavy. Yuan, "Angry for the people, but also refused", was bought by American cultural relics dealers in Beijing and shipped to the United States.
Two stones "Salouzi" and "Quanmao _" in the Six Juns were sold abroad at the price of 19 14 by China antique dealer at that time. Now they are in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, USA, and the other four stone heads are in the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi 'an, Shaanxi.