The silkworm-horse is the ancestor of silkworms in ancient Chinese myth.
Chinese proverb: an old horse knows the way. Today, it means a person who is very experienced at any given thing may be referred as "the old horse who knows the way".
In the reign of Emperor the Second of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), the prime minister Zhao Gao, obsessed with ambitions, was planning to usurp the throne day and night.
Once upon a time, there was an old man called Sai Weng living in a frontier fortress. One day, he lost his horse and his neighbor felt sorry for him, but Sai Weng didn't care about the horse, because he thought it wasn't a bad thing to lose a horse.
Link : | China Daily | Chinaculture.org |