Art form gets back in the saddle

Bamboo horse performance once again enjoys galloping appeal, report Yang Feiyue in Beijing and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan.

Back in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), a "bamboo horse" was revealed in the great poet Li Bai's work, The River-Merchant's Wife.

It depicts a wife's memories of her husband as a young boy, who used bamboo stilts to mimic a horse.

Today, an ancient art form featuring the bamboo horse has found a new lease on life in North China's Shanxi province.