As far back as the time of the prehistoric matriarchal society, the primitive people living in the Yellow River valley had begun to keep dogs. Dogs were the first domestic animals to be reared by humans, and were not only intimately involved in people's daily lives on a prac tical level, but were also an indispensable part of life on the spiritual plane.
早在母系氏族社會時期，生活在黃河流域的原始人就已開始養狗，狗成為人類最早飼養的家畜，不僅在現實生活中與狗關係密切，在精神生活層面中也缺不了狗。