穆纪光在《西北师院学报》一九八五年第三期发表的《关于审美起源的追溯》一文中指出:艺术的出现(旧石器晚期或中期)并不是美的路程的开端。审美现象起源于人类诞生之时,即人类结束了从猿到人的过渡、开始制造工具、开始从事真正的劳动的时候。研究审美起源这个本来属于经验事实的问题,需要考古学和人类 Mu Ji-kuang pointed out in his article “The Trace of Aesthetic Origin” published by The Northwest Normal University in the third issue of 1985 that the emergence of art (late Paleolithic or medium-term) is not the beginning of the beauty journey. The phenomenon of aesthetics originated when mankind was born, that is, when humankind ended the transition from ape to man, started to make tools and began to engage in genuine labor. The question of aesthetic origin, which originally belonged to empirical fact, required archeology and humanity