In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods totemism was on the decline; when Chinese culture was united under the Han dynasty, from being the object of worship of one clan, the bat became the shared lucky symbol of the whole race.
因此春秋戰國圖騰崇拜日衰，漢朝文化統一後，蝙蝠就由一族的信仰對象，統一為全民族共同的吉祥符號。