Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 3(4), pp. 162 - 168
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030404
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Critique of Academic Proposals that "Chinese Dragon Totem Stemming from Prairie Wolf Totem" in Wolf Totem

Wu Juan ^*, Xue Wenhui
School of Foreign Language, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

ABSTRACT

In the annexed article of Wolf Totem, academic proposals that "Chinese dragon totem was stemmed from prairie wolf totem and there was a period of taotie totem between dragon totem and wolf totem", gave rise to heated discussion. This paper exams the wolf-totem proposals by textual analysis and archeological evidence to indicate that there was no obvious trace of wolf-worship had been discovered in the Chinese prehistoric culture, there was no recognizable element of wolf had been found in the components of Chinese dragon, and there was no cohesive relation between taotie design and wolf totem. Thus such proposals initiated in Wolf Totem should be taken into reconsideration and conducted with more substantial evidences, otherwise they might affect the ever-growing readers with some misunderstanding or even doubts on the significance of Chinese totem and formation of Chinese culture identity.

KEYWORDS
Wolf Totem, Dragon Totem, Taotie Design

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Wu Juan , Xue Wenhui , "Critique of Academic Proposals that "Chinese Dragon Totem Stemming from Prairie Wolf Totem" in Wolf Totem," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 162 - 168, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030404.

(b). APA Format:
Wu Juan , Xue Wenhui (2015). Critique of Academic Proposals that "Chinese Dragon Totem Stemming from Prairie Wolf Totem" in Wolf Totem. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 3(4), 162 - 168. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030404.