从禁食到图腾崇拜

Diet Taboos and Totem Worship

湖南湘西地区有一些禁食习俗,如符姓人禁食鲤鱼,崇山人禁食黄鳝,泸溪不吃鸡肉等等。这些禁食习俗其实就是图腾崇拜的一种反映。禁忌与崇拜之间到底有什么样的联带关系,图腾崇拜形成都有哪些原因,等等,此文在这些方面试作一探讨。

In western Hunan there are some incredible diet taboos, such as: carp taboos of the FUs ( Fu--a surname), rice field eel taboo of the people in Chongshan, chicken taboo in Luxi, etc. These taboosare just a form of totem worship. The article probes into the relationship between these taboos and worship, and the cause of the development of totem worship.