中国古代蛇图腾崇拜刍议

Discussing the Snake Totemism in Ancient China

中华民族是一个以龙为图腾崇拜的民族,然而蛇也是中国古代先民所崇拜的对象。有学者认为蛇是"龙"原生形象,蛇图腾崇拜早于龙图腾的崇拜。通过对古代相关文献资料和现今文化遗存进行分析比较,探讨了蛇图腾崇拜的发展与变迁,以及其与龙图腾崇拜之间的渊源关系。

The Chinese nation are worship dragon totem nationalities, but snake achievement ＂dragon＂ the primary image also was the ancient times ancients worship object, the snake totem belief should be earlier than the dragon totem. This article attempts to the ancient times to be connected the literature material and the nowadays culture remains carries on the analysis comparison, the discussion Snake totemism development and the vicissltude, as well as its and between dragon totemism origin relations.