As for the origin of the "cloth horse," it is generally assumed that it comes from the bamboo horse games of the Han dynasty, which is to say the games children played pretending to ride around on a horse made from a bamboo pole.
關於布馬的由來，一般咸以為是源自於漢朝即有的竹馬戲，也就是孩子們以竹帚為馬追逐打仗的遊戲。