In an age before the Shang and Chou dynasties, the bat was the ancestral symbol and guardian spirit of a race living in the area of China, and was thus worshipped as a clan totem.
在比商、周更早的年代，蝙蝠就是中國境內某一民族的族徽、守護神，也就是受族人崇拜的圖騰。