Mural guide
A dark bay horse with a white blaze canters around a ring bounded by an earthen bank, with a rider standing arms-out on its blue saddle cloth, a small thatched shed with hay at the right and onlookers at the back; at the left a wooden rack holds two saddles and bridles, beside cane hoops, a wooden water trough and a hay basket.
Horse Circus
Acrobatics on horseback, one of the three branches of Liaocheng acrobatics
Introduction
The horse-circus branch of Liaocheng acrobatics, one of its three branches of horse circus, magic, and performance: in the Three Kingdoms period, acrobatics and horse circus were already common around Dong'e; in the early Republic, Dong'e County alone had dozens of acrobatic and circus troupes; in 1955 the county organized 8 circus troupes.