一氏族制度是原始社会史的基本内容,对其起源、发展和消亡的历史过程进行深入的探究,是了解原始社会史中诸如时期的划分、生产形式的变化、公有制的演变等重要问题的关键。然而,活生生的原始的氏族组织,即使在世界上发展最缓慢的民族中间,也都早已消失于历史的洪流之中了,今天在亚、欧、非、美、澳各大洲的原始民族中所见到的只不过是它的残余形态。由于氏族组织离开我们已经十分遥远,加之可供论证的材料仍欠丰富,致使中外学者探讨它的起源都感到非常棘手,个别学者甚至认为是不可能解决的问题。 A clan system is the basic content of the primitive social history. Inquiring into the historical process of its origin, development and demise, it is the key to understand such important issues as the division of time in the primitive social history, the change of the production form and the evolution of public ownership. . However, the living primitive clan organization, even among the slowest nations in the world, has already disappeared into the torrent of history. Today, among the primitive peoples on all continents in Asia, Europe, Africa, the United States, and Australia What you see is nothing more than its remnants. As the clan organization has been far away from us and the materials available for argumentation are still scarce, it is very difficult for both Chinese and foreign scholars to discuss its origin. Some scholars even consider it an impossible problem to be solved.