Dancing, horseback riding, archery, playing soccer, how good were the women of the Great Tang Dynasty?

In our impression, women in ancient times were gentle and elegant, the image of a small family. But the women of the Tang Dynasty is not so, the women of the Tang Dynasty are capable of martial arts, horseback riding, archery, dancing, cuju omnipotent, and this must be the Tang Dynasty by the influence of foreign cultures, the world's cultural fusion is relatively more inevitably linked to this time of the Tang Dynasty women by the inculcation of foreign cultures also gradually show their skills, practicing a skill.

Dance

Ancient women are able to sing and dance, music, chess, calligraphy and painting are all complete, the Tang Dynasty women are certainly not inferior, in the Tang Dynasty, due to social stability, the rapid development of the economy at this time, the integration of various ethnic groups. Dance content is extremely rich, in addition to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty will form the ten parts of the Kabuki. Also gradually found out ? Rikibu Kabuki, Sitting Kabuki, Ken Dance, Soft Dance? etc. At the same time, there are many branches of dance under each dance. Take the Hu Xuan Dance among the sword dances for example, Hu Xuan Dance was first produced in the Northwest Minority in the Tang Dynasty, and was introduced to the Central Plains through the Silk Road. We all know that the city of Chang'an was the veritable center of the world during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and at that time, there were at least more than 200,000 Lakers coming and going in the city every day. With more and more people coming and going, the Hu people's Hu Xuan dance has also become popular, most people in the city like to eat Hu food, listening to Hu music, watching Hu Xuan dance, it can be said that the beauty of the beautiful!

Horseback riding and archery

Anyone who understands Chinese history knows that since the Han, Wei, North and South Dynasties, in addition to the women of the northern minorities, the south is almost very few people like horseback riding and archery, the south of the women give us the impression that most of them are gentle, but to the Tang Dynasty is very different, because the Tang Dynasty advocates the martial arts, horseback riding and archery in people's daily lives these activities seem to be very common, and by this time, the Tang Dynasty was the most popular and the most popular of all, and it is the only time when people like horseback riding and archery. Seems to be very common, by the influence of this culture, women's horseback riding and archery in the Tang Dynasty is also more commonplace as the existence of the Tang Dynasty, most women are brave and good at fighting. Through movies and TV dramas, we can also learn that in the Tang Dynasty, when the emperor went on hunting trips, usually by the courtesans to ride for the emperor to carry arrows, following the emperor on hunting trips. In Du Fu's "Mourning River Head", there is also this to depict the courtesan riding horseback archery scene: the carriage before the talent with a bow and arrow, the white horse chewed and eroded the gold le, turned to the sky to shoot the clouds, an arrow is falling double flying wings?

The last is Cuju, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, Cuju is often a military activity for men, but in the Tang Dynasty, Cuju has become a popular recreational activities