The items prohibited for consumption,the behaviors subject to taboos,and the specific times for observing taboos,as recorded in the Book of Rites,collectively form some elements of traditional taboos in Chinese culture.These taboos serve the religious function of regulating the re-lationship between humans and deities,the social function of regulating the relationship between individual and the collective,and the ecological function of coordinating the relationship between human and nature.They reflect the ancient people's analogical thinking between object and hu-man,the mutual-penetrating thinking of subject-object integration,and the dualistic thinking of harmonizing yin and yang.These taboos have had a far-reaching influence on the construction of Chinese ritual civilization and the continuity of small traditions of folk culture.