马是牧民的伴侣时至马年，我想起昔年在锡林郭勒草原生活时关于牧民与马的所见所闻和亲身感受。马是草原牧民的生活伴侣，有句谚语叫：“歌是翅膀，马是伴当。”草原上，刚满３岁的幼儿就被父亲抱到马背上习乘。当年，我们作为知青来到草原时，每个蒙古包分5匹马，当马倌放马则 When the horse was a herdsman’s companion to the Year of the Horse, I remembered what I had seen and heard about herdsmen and horses during the past year in Xilin Gol Grassland. The horse is a living companion of grassland herdsmen. There is an old saying: “Songs are wings and horses are accompanists.” On the prairie, just three-year-old children were taken to their horses by her father. In those days, when we came to the grasslands as educated youth, we divided up 5 horses for each Mongolian kravana,