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What kind of horse is Lu Bu riding?

Red rabbit.

The horse that Lu Bu rode was called Red Rabbit. Red hare's real name is "Red Rabbit" (big red body, fierce as a tiger. Rabbit takes the word tu, which means tiger. ) is the emperor of Malaysia, and non-extraordinary people cannot be controlled. For Lu Bu's mount.

"There are Lyu3 bu4 in the crowd and red rabbits in the horse pile." Red hare has always been the representative of a good horse, traveling thousands of miles every day and walking 800 miles at night. There is a record about red rabbit horse in the "Three Kingdoms", but why it is called red rabbit horse is not said. So later generations think that "red" refers to its coat color, and "rabbit" runs as fast as a rabbit, but this is just a folk rumor. The story that Red Rabbit was given to Guan Yu by Cao Cao is also a plot fabricated in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.