There is no thousand-mile horse in the world, and Jiufang Gao is rare among people. Huang Tingjian, poet, lyricist, and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty

Although Qi Ji is sick, he will not be able to run a thousand-mile horse without encountering Bo Le. Famous Quotes about the Chollima Horse Liu Xiang, a Confucian scholar and writer of the Western Han Dynasty

There was Bole in the world, and then there was the Chollima Horse. Thousand-mile horses often exist but bole does not always exist.

"Miscellaneous Theory Four" by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty (Ma Shuo). Bole: Surnamed Sun Mingyang, he was a good horseman during the reign of Duke Mu of Qin. The general meaning of these two sentences is: There is Bole in the world, and then you will find a thousand-mile horse. These two sentences illustrate the dependence between Chollima and Bole. It’s not that there is no thousand-mile horse in the world, the key is that there is no Bole to discover it. So there is Bole, and then there are thousand-mile horses. Otherwise, even if there are a large number of thousand-mile horses, because there is no Bole, they can only "died in parallel in the stables", and no one knows about them. Han Yu's "Horse Theory", with its exquisite conception and appropriate metaphors, made a very profound summary of the phenomenon of lack of talent and the sinking of talents in history. At the same time, it also reflected on the large number of talented people at that time who had been buried at the bottom for a long time and could not get access to anything. A powerful attack on the social reality of recommendation and appointment. One shows that people who can discover talents are more important than talents.

"Miscellaneous Notes Four" by Han Yu, a writer of the Tang Dynasty

Although there are famous horses, they are only humiliated and died in the stalls in the hands of slaves, and they are not called thousands of miles.