A research on Taboo and its influence on Original ArtName: ChenWeiniSupervisor: Li DongmingMajor:literature theoryOrientation:Chinese ancient literature theoryGrade: 2004AbstractThe taboo research having been done continuously from 19th century. Though it containsmarked folk culture and embodies in peoples life and regulates peoples forming ofconsciousness, social order and artistic aesthetic system, it is still a mysterious and scaredcustom to ordinary people. The rearrangement and elaboration of taboo will provide us a newperspective to realize the art.Taboo refers to the things which are sacred, unclean, and dangerous and the forbiddenattitude which people hold towards its characteristic. That is to say, it includes two sides: one isthe special things; the other is a control model. The essence of taboo is a negative norm ofpsychology and behavior. Though the violation of taboo is psychological, one can not disobey itspunishment.The research always focuses on origin of taboo. From the Frazers negative sorcery toFreuds contradictory psychology and Cassills priori dangerous theory, all of them sharedifferent ideas but has their own reasons. The origin of taboo can be divided into four categories:manna, desire, ceremony and lessons. However, from the authors point of view, taboo originatesfrom human beings survival instinct. As a negative behavior regulation, it establish graduallyfrom the satisfaction of living needs. Just as what Freud said, human beings have both survivalinstinct and mortality instinct; the survival instinct is an extension and emphasis to the mortalityinstinct. Our ancestors paid a much higher prize than others living beings and won a place forthemselves. Just for this strong survival instinct, human beings made efforts in a long anddepressing period and finally become a group of living things which full of energy. While duringthe process of living, the prerequisites conditions are the appetite and sexual desire which isnecessary for the procreation. Taboo came about from these two conditions. As a negativebehavior regulation, taboo threats human beings survival for it restrains peoples behavior. Itcomes about spontaneously at the very beginning and becomes stable through heredity and thenbecomes more stable and disobeyed through peoples learning.Taboo is the most ancient untouched law of human being. In primitive society, taboo is oneof the most important means to control the society and it is the foundation stone of the socialorder. When ideology turns to be a social manifestation taboo becomes ceremony and mythology.Ceremony is the carrier of taboo behavior while mythology is the carrier of tattoo language.IIICeremony is a restriction means just as habits. The regulation of taboo and restriction are beingemphasized in ceremony. However, almost every taboo subject exists in a mythology and passeson from one person to another. Finally it becomes the foundation of social order. Just because ofthe restriction of ceremony and mythology, they become an inevitable carrier of taboo.Original art shares the same forming systems with taboo. Instead of having aestheticmotivation, original art comes from survival instinct of human beings at the beginning. Originalart is an inevitable weapon for peoples daily life, it serves for living. It is an extension andreveal to the life emotionally. Ceremony and mythology are the carriers of original art. Almostall kinds of original art come from ceremony, while mythology is the essential condition of anykind of art. As an ideology, taboo is the foundation and expressing way of aesthetic system.People follow its negative principle and let it become a cultural instruction of the hint anddomination which will guide peoples behavior. Taboo has a great impact on original art as wellas the emergence, establishment and expressing of aesthetic system.The difficult point of this paper is to study the origin of taboo, to find out its impact onoriginal art and the establishment of aesthetic system. This paper is aim to think about humanbeings survival problem and show concern to the civilization. To find out the genuine andharmony from the complicated society and to construct a reasonable social order will not only bea dream.Keywords: Taboo; Survival instinct; Ceremony; Mythology; Aesthetic system;IV论文独创性声明本人郑重声明：所提交的学位论文是本人在导师的指导下进行的研究工作及取得的成果。除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文不含其他个人或其他机构已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研究作出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人承担本声明的法律责任。研究生签名：日期：论文使用授权声明本人完全了解广西师范大学有关保留、使用学位论文的规定。广西师范大学、中国科学技术信息研究所、清华大学论文合作部，有权保留本人所送交学位论文的复印件和电子文档，可以采用影印、缩印或其他复制手段保存论文。本人电子文档的内容和纸质论文的内容相一致。除在保密期内的保密论文外，允许论文被查阅和借阅，可以公布（包括刊登）论文的全部或部分内容。论文的公