Abstract: Chinese scholars have reached an agreement on the historical starting point of Chinese literary anthropology and its modern academic tradition,with literary myth,relevance between Cambridge myth ceremony school and Frye’s archetypal theory，as well as methodology.It covered diversity research of Chinese literary anthropology in the 20th century,and also engendered some kind of one-track cognition in introducing the literary anthropology research in Taiwan region.It contained “What is literary anthropology” in the probing into the historical starting point of Chinese literary anthropology.Only if the connotation of the literary anthropology to be adequately interpreted,its object,territory and scope will be defined at the maximum degree.The historical starting point of Chinese literary anthropology can be logically autonomous,be discussed in theory and speech.We must pay attention to the historical context in which Chinese literary anthropology develops.

Key words: Chinese literary anthropology, historical starting point, mythical archetypal theory