现代人差不多都知道,“图腾”是一种极其古老的东西,但不会有很多人注意到这种古老的东西与现代人的生活发生着什么联系。稍稍了解一些人类“图腾”崇拜的历史和“图腾”文化的影响,会对分析人们现代审美趣味中出现的“返祖”现象有所帮助。“图腾”(Totem),是从北美奥日贝人的土语转化而来的,原意为“种族”、“家庭”,代表原始社会中的一种社会体制。处于野蛮和蒙昧时期的原始人还无法解释人类起源的奥秘,但却凭借新奇、大胆的想象创造了璀灿绚丽的图腾传说。他们笃信人类群体与某一物种之间存在着特殊的超自然关系,视某种动 Almost all modern people know, “totem” is an extremely ancient thing, but not many people noticed that this ancient things and modern life, what is the connection. A little understanding of the history of some human “totem” worship and the influence of “totem” culture will help to analyze the phenomenon of “returning to ancestors” in the modern aesthetic taste of people. Totem, which is derived from the Ozbey language in North America, was originally intended as “race” and “family,” representing a social system in primitive society. The primitive people in the period of savagery and ignorance still can not explain the mystery of the origin of mankind, but they have created bright and colorful totem legends with novelty and daring imagination. They believe in the existence of a special supernatural relationship between a human group and a species,