swedish dala horse

origin: The Dala horse Dalahorse, regarded as a symbol of Sweden, comes from Darlana, the Dalarna Lake District in central Sweden. Around the 17th century AD, in the Dalahorse area of central Sweden, where the primeval forest is dense, most people lived by logging. Once the workers enter the virgin forest, it usually takes ten days and half a month, or even half a year at most. The lumberjacks missed their children, so some people thought of carving some small toys out of wood, which can be used as gifts for children when they go home. The reason why horses became the best models for lumberjacks at that time was that at that time, lumberjacks mainly relied on horses to transport the logs they picked outside. Almost every family in Sweden raises horses for traveling, carrying goods, and doing farm work. So the horse became the closest companion of the logger and his family. When the wooden horse carved by Dalana lumberjacks gradually became popular all over the country, people named it after its place of origin. The real fame of the Swedish Trojan Horse was at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. At that time, a workshop in the Dalarna area produced a two-meter-high wooden horse for the Swedish exhibition area, which attracted people's attention. At that time, many newspapers used large photos of the Swedish Trojan Horse to report on the exhibition. The Dala horse, which symbolizes strength, courage, loyalty, wisdom and dignity, is expensive, not only because the Dala horse is completely handmade, but also because the Swedes will never sell it at a lower price in order to maintain this brand.