当我们讨论艺术起源的时候 ,我们所说的“艺术”和“起源”的指称和涵义是什么 ,这是首先要弄清楚的。过去 ,有人提出过这一问题 ,但多在浅层次上思考和规范 ,缺乏深刻的哲学性的追问。对于界定“艺术” ,郑元者先生在他的专著《艺术之根———艺术起源学引论》（湖南教育出版? When we talk about the origin of art, what are the allegations and meanings of what we call “art” and “origin”? This is the first thing to be clear about. In the past, some people raised this issue, but most often thought and regulated it at a shallow level and lacked deep philosophical questions. For the definition of “art”, Mr. Zheng Yuanzhi in his monograph “the root of art --- Introduction to Art Origin” (Hunan Education Publishing?