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Lost wax investment casting of harness stirrup

Stirrups are a pair of pedals hanging on both sides of the saddle, which are used by riders to step on their feet when getting on the horse and riding. The role of stirrups is not only to help people get on the horse, but also to support the rider's feet when riding, so as to maximize the advantages of riding and effectively protect the rider's safety. The earliest stirrup was unilateral, and gradually evolved into bilateral with the development of time, further liberating the rider's hands, and its appearance changed history to some extent.

According to archaeological findings, there was an iron stirrup substitute in China in the Western Han Dynasty at the latest. As can be seen from the murals in the Western Han Dynasty, westerners gradually equipped with stirrups after the invasion of eastern nomads, thus giving birth to a new social class-the medieval knight aristocracy. In Qin and Han dynasties, more flexible cavalry gradually replaced chariots. By the Tang Dynasty, cavalry had become the main arms and was used in large-scale operations. It was with the powerful cavalry that the Tang Dynasty defeated the surrounding nomadic peoples such as East and West Turkistan, Xue Yantuo, Gaochang and Tuguhun in one fell swoop, creating a war miracle in which agricultural peoples defeated nomadic peoples on a large scale. Most stirrups are made of iron, in order to make the stirrups stronger and not fall off.

According to murals and other cultural relics unearthed in Mobei, Huns may be the first people to use stirrups. The biggest function of stirrup is to free hands, and cavalry can only control their balance by their feet to rush, stab, split and hit on the horse, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness of cavalry and may defeat the Han people accordingly. There were single stirrups in the Western Jin Dynasty and double stirrups in the Sixteen Countries in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Development history

China's hard metal stirrup dates back to the Northern Wei Dynasty. This kind of stirrup is a hanging stirrup with a long straight handle and a wooden core covered with copper. After that, this kind of stirrup spread eastward through Koguryo and spread to the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and then the narrow pedal metal stirrup spread widely on the Asian prairie. In southern China, stirrups also appeared in the 4th century. In a word, the stirrup with long straight handle with wooden core is the source of all kinds of stirrups in the East and West. Later, the stirrup was also mastered and transformed by Koguryo people, and the wooden-core-clad iron stirrup replaced Beiyan's wooden-core-clad copper stirrup.

Inventor of stirrup

According to murals and other cultural relics unearthed in Mobei, Huns may be the first people to use stirrups. However, was the invention and innovation of stirrup invented by the riding people for the convenience of riding, or by the non-riding people for the convenience of mastering riding skills for cavalry operations?

As early as the 1920s, some western scholars had discussed it. Some people think that the northern nomads used stirrups at the latest in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., so the answer to this question is obvious. Others think that such an answer is arbitrary. From the information that has been found so far, no metallic substance of nomadic people has been found. It is not urgent for riding people who live a nomadic life, but for non-riding people, in order to master riding skills, they naturally turn to complete harnesses more urgently. The earliest single stirrup in the discovery era appeared on the sculptures in the south of the Yangtze River, that is, the riding figurines in the tomb of Yongning in the Western Jin Dynasty in Changsha.

Which of these two speculations is closer to the truth of history? Due to the limitation of data, it is not possible to get a more exact answer. We should continue to explore and not jump to conclusions rashly. Even so, we can say with certainty that the earliest known metal osmium specimen was found in the Central Plains, and the unearthed objects from Jin Tomb in Xiaomin Tun, Anyang fully show this problem.

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