东汉许慎的《说文解字》一书已经收有“鸽”字,可见,我国人民早在一千八百多年前,便认识了这种小飞禽。人们或许听说过它那些诱人的别名——飞奴、人日鸟、半天娇人和插羽佳人。 鸽子羽毛润泽丰美,性情温驯,对人类的生活有益无损,因而,人们在一千多年前便开始驯养它。据五代后周王仁裕《开元天宝遗事》上卷记载,唐玄宗的老臣张九龄(673—740)少年时代“家养群鸽,每与亲知书信往来,只以书系鸽足上,依所教之处飞往投之”,这已经把一般家鸽驯养成信鸽了。距那约六十年后,我国的一些史籍,又出现国外远洋货船以鸽传书的记载。元和年间(公元806—820)任过翰林学士的李肇在《国史补》下卷里说:“南海舶,外国船也。每岁至安南(今越南)、广州。师子国(今斯里兰卡) Xu Dong's Eastern Han Dynasty “Shuo Wen Jie Zi” has received a book “pigeon” word, we can see, as early as 1800 years ago our people, they met this kind of small birds. People may have heard of its tempting alias - flying slave, bird of fame, half-day Jiao and inserted plume lady. Pigeon feathers moisturized, temperament and tame, beneficial to human life, therefore, people began to domesticate it more than a thousand years ago. According to Wang Ren-yuan's Zhou Enlai records of the Five Dynasties Weeks, Zhang Xuling (673-740), a veteran of Emperor Xuanzong, Department of flight to vote, “which has been domesticated pigeons domesticated pigeons. About 60 years from now, some historical records in our country have appeared in the records of pigeons from overseas ocean-going cargo ships. In Yuan Dynasty and in the years (AD 806-820), Li Zhao, who had been a bachelor of the Hanlin School, said in the next volume of ”History of the National History Bureau,“ that ”the South China Sea ships and foreign ships also go to Annan (now Vietnam) and Guangzhou every year. Sri Lanka)