Huo Qubing

Huo Qubing

Huo Qubing (

Huo Qubing Media

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  Huo Qubing's campaign against Xiongnu is shown in red

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  Tomb of Huo Qubing, statue of a horse stomping a Xiongnu warrior, with detail of the head of the vanquished Xiongnu warrior.

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  Tomb of Huo Qubing in 1914, Shaanxi, China, photographed by Victor Segalen (1878–1919). The "Horse Stomping Xiongnu" statue appears in front.

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  The "Horse Stomping Xiongnu" statue at Huo Qubing's tomb

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  Mogao Caves 8th-century mural depicting Emperor Wu of Han worshipping "golden man" statues brought back from the Xiongnu by General Huo Qubing.

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  The horse statue at Huo Qubing's Mausoleum (117 BCE), the first known monumental stone statue in China: it depicts a horse trampling a Xiongnu warrior.

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  Crouching tiger, Huo Qubing Mausoleum

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  Horse Ready to Leap, Huo Qubing Mausoleum

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  Crouching boar. Huo Qubing Mausoleum

Chinese: 霍去病; 140 BC - 117 BC) was a Chinese general of the Han Dynasty under Emperor Wu. He was very good at shooting with his bow on a horse. When he was 18, he was ordered to attack the Xiongnu with 800 cavalry. Finally, his troops killed about 2,000 enemies and kidnapped the imperial officials.

In the spring of 121 BC, Emperor Wu ordered Huo Qubing to invade the Xiongnu with 10,000 cavalry. He occupied 5 cities within 6 days and finally killed 8,000 enemies. In order to fairly eliminate the main force of the Xiongnu, Huo Qubing and Wei Qing led 100,000 cavalry and fought with their enemies in the desert in the spring of 119 BC. Huo Qubing died in Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), the capital of the Han Dynasty, when he was 24.