马为六畜之首,早在距今约五千年的新石器时代文化遗址中,就曾发现过马的骨骼,证明先民在此时就已开始对马的驯化和饲养。到商周时期,马受到人们的特别重视,因为它成了战争和日常生活中驾车、代步的重要工具。《周易》中就有“服牛乘马,引重致远”的记载。从甲骨卜辞得知,商王朝已设置有马师,出现了马拉的战车。在陕西眉县出土过一件西周时期的青铜驹尊,其铭文中记载有周王亲自参加繁殖马匹的“执驹”典礼。到春秋时期, The horse was the first of the six domestic animals. As early as about 5,000 years ago, the Neolithic cultural sites discovered the horse’s skeleton and proved that the ancestors had started to domesticate and raise horses at this time. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the horse received special attention because it became an important tool for driving and exchanging in war and daily life. “Book of Changes” in there, “serve cattle, lead to Zhiyuan” records. Inscription from the oracle bone inscription, business dynasties has set up a horse, appeared in the chariot. Bronze horse statue of Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed in Meixian County, Shaanxi Province, the inscription contains the week King personally participated in the breeding horse “horse ” ceremony. To the Spring and Autumn Period,