在北方少数民族中,曾经流传着狼祖神话,存在着狼图腾崇拜,体现着人们对狼的敬畏和崇仰。然而,在明清小说中,除了仍旧保留极少的狼祖意蕴的朦胧印记外,为数居多的作品表现的是丑化的狼性,于是,阴险狡诈、贪婪凶残、恩将仇报的狼形象呈现在读者面前,并由此深层次地揭示出人性与狼性的相同之处,将批判的矛头指向卑劣的人性,用狼性喻指人性,表现对狼祖意蕴的深层疏离。五百万年前,狼就出现在地球上。人们对狼的勇 Among the northern ethnic minorities, the mythology of wolf ancestors has been circulated and wolf totem worship exists, reflecting people’s awe and reverence for the wolf. However, in the novels of Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to the faint imprint of the wolf ancestors, which still retains very few wolf ancestors, most of the works show the ugly wolf character. Thus, the sinister cunning, greedy and cruel, , Revealing the similarities between humanity and wolf deeply at the same time, pointing the criticism to despicable humanity, using wolf metaphor to refer to human nature, and expressing the deep estrangement to the wolf ancestor’s connotation. Five million years ago, wolves appeared on Earth. People are brave to wolves