摘要
动物与人类的长期共存使动物与中国传统文化形成了密不可分的依存关系。自然动物成为人类文化的重要载体,动物词汇也蕴含着中国先民复杂的文化心态和文化现象。本文探讨了动物的文化功能,并分析了动物词汇与中国文化的关系。
In this article, culture functions of animals and relationships between animals and Chinese culture were reviewed and the review demonstrated that a close relationship between animals and Chinese traditional culture was formed due to the long co-existance of animals and Chinese people, thus natural animals became the important carrier of the complicated culture in China ; animal cultural terms contained the complex cultural attitude and phenomenon of the ancient Chinese people.