The Tang Dynasty was at the peak of the development of China's feudal society. The powerful and unified multi-ethnic centralization, highly developed material economic conditions, free and open-minded all-inclusive ideological and cultural concepts together constituted the heyday of the Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years. The riding vogue prevailing during this period was an epitome of the social life in the Tang Dynasty. Through the archaeological typology method, the study on the horse-riding tomb figurines unearthed from the graves of the two ancient capitals in the Tang Dynasty was conducted, which could summarize the general development characteristics of the horse-riding fashion in the Tang Dynasty, further cast a glimpse of some aspects of the social life and rendered a more intuitive understanding of the social development of the Tang Dynasty. This paper intends to illustrate the change of female social status in the Tang Dynasty and its causes and significance based on the horse-riding fashion of the Tang Dynasty, taking the horsing-riding figurines unearthed in the Tang Dynasty as the example.
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