公元2002年是中国农历的壬午年,即马年。内蒙古草原是马的故乡,多处发现5千万年前的原始马——三趾马化石。马形观赏石也早有发现,《礼记》礼运篇有“河出马图”的记载。唐代孔颖达注释说:“伏羲氏有天下,龙马贡图出于河,遂法从八卦。”说的是枯水期黄河的河床中露出一块马形奇石,上面 The year 2002 is the Chinese New Year of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Horse. The grasslands of Inner Mongolia are the hometown of horses and many found fossils of three-toed horses, the original horse 50 million years ago. Horse-shaped ornamental stones have also been discovered for a long time. The book “Ritual in the Book of Rites” has a record of “River Maps”. Kong Yingda of the Tang Dynasty commented: “There is a world under the Fuxi Temple, and the Longma Gongtu is from the river, and the Buddhist law is from the gossip.” It is said that during the dry season the riverbed of the Yellow River reveals a horse-shaped stone.