This text proceed with primitive meaning of the monkey, trace back to monkey initial copy of culture former, and regard it as an consult,clarify the indistinct relation of accepting between the first ancestor spirit and The Monkey King, these two,represents totally different peaks in monkey's culture development course, and comb out the basic type of monkey's culture and basic developing state,and try to subscribe the hard road for the monkey from worshipped totem to aesthetic image.

本文从猴的原始含义入手,追溯猴的性格特征的最初本原,以之为参照,厘清始祖神一一美猴王这两个代表猴的性格特征发展历程中完全不同的高峰之间隐隐约约似断还续的传转承接的关系,并梳理出猴的性格特征的基本类型和基本发展态势,试图描绘出猴从图腾到鄙猴再到美猴的跌宕曲折的审美之路。