Around 2000 BC, several tribes on the grassland near the Black Sea brought their horses to the Grice-Euphrates River valley and began to pull ancient carriages with wheels, which had spokes instead of being made of a whole piece of wood like the early wheels. This kind of wheel is light and easy to operate.

Archaeological excavations in Anyang Yin Ruins show that China had already used two-wheeled carriages in the late Shang Dynasty.

China's ancient carriages were used for fighting. Generally, it is a single chariot (axle), two wheels, square cart (carriage), driving four horses or two horses.

The first discovery of the four-wheeled carriage in the portrait bricks of the Three Kingdoms in Sichuan