Abstract: The Song Dynasty was the most important period of the development of farm cattle industry.Farm cattle trade developed very quickly during this period due to the reasons such as farmlands being reclaimed greatly,frequent natural calamities and wars,cattle-slaughter industry being prosperous,etc..Cattle trade in Song Dynasty can be divided into two types: the government and the folk, and it was especially prosperous in Fujian,South of Guangdong,Zhejiang and Kaifeng.The prosperity of cattle trade solved the pr...