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Pinggu a Thousand Horse Ranch

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Since ancient times, Youyan Thomas. "Zuo Zhuan" records said: "The land north of Hebei Province, born horse," meaning that is produced Jizhou Northern Territory where the horse. It is said that the Zhou dynasty the Zhou Yan Wang Jin Feng's tribute is a horse. Some people say, "You-Ji Ma, four of which were of sufficient capacity," meaning that by the middle of Hebei Province quiet horse is very valuable, the value of the equivalent of four medium-Matui rich people's property. History into the 10th century, the rise of the northern forest-steppe has the Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian leaders, have led his army southward encroachment of Chinese territory, the establishment of the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and capital Youyan land.

These are all minorities in northern nomadic, hunting for a living, good riding and shooting is their national superiority, so they see horses as life. When they plug into the occupied areas in Youyan time, they put the original Han's waste to large tracts of pasture land, to shepherd the sheep. Among them, Pinggu West (old is Sanhe Xian) is important since the Liao Dynasty Wrangler pasture. Seven dry system, according to Liao (1107) established the winding "top of the Probation Temple Stele" that, in the Liao Qian Hang J?ng Z?ng years (979-983 years) ago, the top probation Temple in Ji Zhou (now Tianjin, North China) Company The San Hexian North township, built a manor, for the temple of production, there are total 30 hectares, is a superbly flat fertile land, of which 10 hectares (acres) of wheat, rewarding, and the whole sacrificial ceremony monks daily masses, all depends on the estate at the Temple. Da-Liao Road, between cases (1085-1094), the court responsible for sending reconnaissance statistics officials abandoned the sudden arrival of the land, read this piece of land, the assertion that this office is responsible for managing the manor are ho rape people, and the lease is unknown, so they forced in this land all around the set as the official symbol of waste for pasture, built stables to grazing and feeding horses. This is the Pinggu Southwest "mafang" The origin of the name. Can be seen on this earth there Pinggu horse's Mafang nearly one thousand years of history.

After that, here as an important Wrangler Gyeonggi horse field, Xiangyan do not waste. The Ming dynasty, this place Pinggu horse wrangler on the territory of more north in the northern Shiqu Ma Fang, Yang in Meiyukou the bridge, the factory's gate, large Xiaoguanzhuang other places, have official rangelands, pastures, stables and silo. Annual spring and summer, the horses have arrived here Wuqing, Xianghe, Baodi other counties to graze, and then fall back, with forage feeding. The major supplier of horses feed Army. Qing Dynasty, the Wrangler Pinggu pastures and stables to gradually abandoned, and large areas of pasture and cultivated as farmland. Although the waste race, but people like the gallop Pinggu struggling like hard work, but in the spirit of courage to flourish. Today, Pinggu to "Rising Sun Horse" logo as the image of the area, or the emblem, there is ample historical basis, is very meaningful.
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