Tang Taizong Li Shimin was good at bowing horses, so his hobby eventually became a quirk, which stems from his ancestral home in Inner Mongolia

"Due to Tang Taizong's great achievements, an unpredictable China, a heroic and epic China, and rewrite the history of civilization that has continued for thousands of years." This is a French historian and Asian history research community. Dean Grusser's evaluation of Li Shimin in the book "Prairie Empire" published in 1939.

​It can be seen that the value of Li Shimin's culture, Taoism and Martial Arts embodied in world history. Indeed he is a versatile monarch, he is good at bowing horses, good at poetry and books. Become an emperor with all talents in the history of Tang Dynasty. Tang Taizong took the world at once, and in the process of unifying the Central Plains and the frontiers by force, he was more capable of riding and shooting tactics, so he was particularly proficient in bow horses.

Early in his youth, Tang Taizong, who was born behind the generals, was a juvenile who was adept at bowing horses. From the beginning of the army in Jinyang to the emperor ascending the throne, his career was almost accompanied by bow and horse. This was the period when his riding and shooting skills were fully utilized and more proficient.

Li Shimin joined the army as a teenager, good at riding and shooting, and once went to Yanmenguan to rescue Emperor Yang Guang of Suiyang. He first advocated Jinyang to raise troops and was named Dunhuang County Lord, who was good at using troops. After entering Chang'an, he worshipped Qin Guogong. After the Tang Dynasty was established, he was named King of Qin. Put down the separatist forces such as Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong, conquer the east and the west, were born to death, and the bow and arrow war horse never left. The bows and arrows he uses are twice as large as those used by ordinary people, with a high hit rate and great power. One arrow can shoot through the door. The adviser Fang Xuanling praised him as "the bow goes through six hooks, and the arrow goes through seven zhas". During his command of the war of unification, he must ride on a horse and hold a long bow every year to charge forward. His superb riding skills and accurate archery made his opponents admire.

​According to historical records, Li Shimin was extremely powerful when he was young. Among his personal weapons, the most famous is a two-meter-long giant heaven bow. Li Shimin once led a cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation before the enemy battle. Passing through a highland of grassland, he fell asleep with the soldiers because he was too tired, and was discovered by the enemy, originally intending to besiege Li Shimin. Suddenly a snake chased a mouse, rushed to the face of the cavalry, and awakened the cavalry, only to find that they were surrounded by enemies, so Li Shimin and the cavalry got on their horses and fled. Li Shimin himself opened a bow from left to right, hit a hundred shots, and finally escaped.

Tang Taizong was not only good at bow horses, but also fond of bow horses, especially for horses and even became addictive. In the later period of Zhenguan, a steed named Huang Piao he was riding on in the war of unification died of illness. Tang Taizong regretted it very much. He specially ordered Lingle to perform the "Huang Ting Die Qu" to show his grief for this horse. The horses are not only honored during their lifetime, but they are also carved to the side of their owners after death. This was originally a custom in the tombs of Turkic chiefs to show their love of martial arts and horses. Emperor Taizong's love for good horses was also influenced by Turkic customs.

​In his later years, he personally selected six of his most proud horses from the horses that he had ridden in the War of Unification, and named them Saluzi and Telebe respectively. , Fist Mao, Baiquan Tame, Qingqi, Shivachi. For these six horses, he was not only inseparable during his lifetime, but before he died, he was also ordered to carve stone statues of the six horses to decorate his tomb, Zhaoling, known as the Zhaoling Six Sails, and personally described his achievements for the six horses.

Six Jun was created by an anonymous sculptor, using a combination of round sculpture and relief sculpture. The shape is rugged, powerful, active, and strong in texture. The images of the six horses are different, either standing on the spot, walking lightly, galloping on the battlefield, or leaping into the air. These masterpieces are true portrayals of Tang Taizong's addiction to horses and his fame on the battlefield.

​Li Shimin is so skillful in bowing horse warfare thanks to his ancestral home in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia. The prairie was originally the hometown of riding and shooting. It is no wonder that Tang Taizong, who was able to conquer and fight, had such outstanding talent and attainments in riding and shooting.

The fourth-generation ancestor Li Xi of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan (Li Shimin's father) "leads the hero, Zhen Wuchuan, because of the family Yan", and the "New Tang Book" also has the record of "the Wuchuan, because of the family Yan". Li Shimin was born in December 17th (January 598 AD) of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Li Xi not only served as a town general in Wuchuan, but also died in Wuchuan. Although regrettableYes, more information about Li Xi is not recorded in the history books, but since Li Xi died during his tenure, of course he was from Wuchuan. Li Xi’s son is named Li Tianci, and Li Tianci has three sons. His third son Li Hu once served as the left servant of Hou Wei and was named Jun Gong Zhao. Li Hu was in the post-Wei period when the regime was turbulent and the ruling clique was torn apart.

In the Western Wei Dynasty, Li Hu and Yu Wentai, as well as Taibao Li Bi and Da Sima Duguxin were knighted as "zhu country". Li Hu's official position reached Taiwei, and he was particularly favored by the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty. He gave the Xianbei surname to the One clan. Since then, the reputation and historical status of the Li family have reached the peak. And for this". When Yu Wentai’s son Yu Wenjue usurped the throne in the week after the establishment of the throne, Li Hu’s son Li Ying (Li Shimin’s grandfather) inherited his father’s Duke of Tang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Changan. Li Yuan unfortunately passed away when Li Yuan was seven years old. Li Yuan inherited the title of Duke Tang.

Li Shimin's mother, Dou, was born in the Xianbei tribe and was a native of Jingzhaopingling. His father Dou Yi was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and worshipped the Kingdom of Shangzhu. His stepmother was Princess Xiangyang, the sister of the Northern Zhou Wudi Yu Wenyong. After the Sui Dynasty replaced Zhou, Dou Yi was named General Manager of Dingzhou and Lord Shenwu. Li Shimin’s family has been intermarried with ethnic minorities. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan’s queen was Dou (Emperor Wei Xiaowen changed the surname to Dou), Li Yuan’s father had married Dugu as his wife, and Li Shimin’s own queen was the eldest son. The matriline of the three consecutive generations is Hu surnamed, which shows that Li Shimin's ancestors are not entirely Han, and his family lineage does have ethnic minority genes.

Among Li Shimin’s ancestors, his fourth ancestor Li Xi once settled in Wuchuan because he served as a general in Jinmen town, and settled down in Wuchuan for a long time. And even thrive and pass on from generation to generation. Ancestral home is the place where the ancestors once lived. Therefore, since Li Shimin's ancestor was once an official in Wuchuan and "finally reigned", it is said that Tang Taizong Li Shimin's ancestral home was in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia.

Refer to "Old Tang Book" "New Tang Book" "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"