马祭,在北方游牧民族中很盛行,后来,随着社会的发展已逐渐淡化。但是,在一直过着游牧生活的蒙古人中,马祭却仍很流行,而且继传至今。马,作为家畜已有了几千年的历史,蒙古族的先民,早在青铜时代和早期铁器时代就有养马的文化遗迹。匈奴、东胡时期,马已成为游牧民不可缺少的家畜。公元九世纪,蒙古人西迁三河之源后,马在蒙古草原遍地皆是。蒙古人养有大量的马,仅成吉思汗八世祖土敦蔑年的夫人莫拿伦所养之马,数以万计。“她的马和牲畜,多到无法计算,当她坐在山头上看到,从她所坐的山头顶上直到山麓 Ma sacrifices, popular among nomads in the north, later, with the development of society has gradually played down. However, among the Mongols who have been living nomadic life, the sacrificial offering is still popular and has been handed down to this day. Horses, as livestock have been on for thousands of years, Mongolian ancestors, as early as the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, there are horse relics. Huns, East Hu period, the horse has become an indispensable livestock nomadic livestock. The ninth century AD, the Mongols moved to the source of the Three Rivers, the horses are everywhere in Mongolia grasslands. The Mongols have a large number of horses, only tens of thousands of horses raised by Mona Morun, the wife of Genghis Khan, the son of Satun. "Her horses and herds were beyond calculation, and when she was sitting on a hill she saw it from the top of the hill where she was sitting to the foothills