As an important domestic animal domesticated by human beings, horses have played an important role in human social life and cultural evolution. Different from the use of horses by farming people, the use of horses by nomadic people is mainly grazing and fighting. In the clash of civilizations in the era of cold weapons, cavalry on horseback has advantages in speed and strength compared with infantry. As a result, this swift horse, accompanied by the fierce owners riding on it, staged a magnificent live drama in the history of war. Ili horse is undoubtedly one of the best breeds of horses. ?
A good horse from Dawan Valley in Central Asia. It is located at the western foot of Pamirs, near Ili in the northeast, in today's Fergana Valley area. Serbs used to be the aborigines of Dawan. They may be the first owners to breed blood horses. They traveled in Eurasia on bloody horses.
Later, for some unknown reasons, they came to the Ili prairie, established a huge and powerful Serbian kingdom, and achieved the hegemony of the grassland for hundreds of years. In other words, the blood horse of Dawan came to Yili as early as 3,000 years ago, and the ancient Ili horse also began to have the fine lineage of the blood horse at that time. No wonder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed when he got a good horse from Wusunguo, a western region (ancient Ili region). He thought the horse was vigorous and brave, so he named it? Tianma? , and improvise poetry:
From the west pole,
After Wanli, Xi returned to virtue.
Inherit the spirit, threaten foreign countries,
Wandering in quicksand, four clothes wear. ?
Such a scene is hard to meet in Wan, and I was lucky enough to see it with my own eyes. This life is worth living. Horses are our closest and most useful animals, and also human companions who have made the greatest contribution to our historical development. ?