今年为农历丙申年,是我国传统的生肖猴年。猴是十二生肖中的第九位。十二生肖产生于汉代,兴盛于隋唐。很多学者都认为十二生肖是代替地支记忆的一种方法,我们认为实际上它应该代表的是远古时期的一种图腾。世界各民族的原始文化中,图腾崇拜的对象可以是各种变形的动物、植物,甚至河流、土地、石头等。英国著名人类学家詹姆斯·乔治·费雷泽在其著作《金枝》中提出图腾崇拜的起源:一是先民出于安全考虑把自己的灵魂寄放在某个动物身上,这时图腾崇 This year is the Lunar New Year, is China’s traditional Lunar Year Year of the Monkey. Monkey is the ninth Chinese Zodiac. Zodiac originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Many scholars think that the zodiac is a method of replacing memory. We think that in fact it should represent a kind of totem in ancient times. Among the primitive cultures of all the nations in the world, the objects of totem worship can be variously deformed animals, plants, and even rivers, land, rocks, and the like. The famous British anthropologist James · George Frazier put forward the origin of totemic worship in his book “Jin Zhi”: First, the ancestors put their souls on an animal for safety reasons, then totem worship