新石器时代黄河流域流行两种鸟崇拜：一种是东方水泽族群对于猛禽或短尾鸟的崇拜，另一种是西方山地族群对于华禽或长尾鸟的崇拜。前者（东方短尾鸟崇拜）经历了两个发展阶段，即以鸱鸮和玄鸟为标志的图腾崇拜，以及以鹰隼和鸷鸟为标志的王权崇拜；后者（西方长尾鸟崇拜）则经历了三个发展阶段：即鸟纹和鱼纹并存、翟雉型鸟纹和踆乌型鸟纹并存、由写实型鸟纹发展为三羽九尾型鸟纹。在后两个阶段，鸟、蛙两种符号的并存亦曾演变为日、月两种符号的并存，由此催生了日鸟、月蛙这两种历史悠久的象征传统。据此可以推断，上古中国人的月蛙信仰，用逻辑眼光看，乃来源于月崇拜与蛙崇拜中各种文化要素的重合；用历史眼光看，则来源于族群融合所造成的符号抽象化——从蛙符号向月亮符号的提升。%In the neolithic period, there used to be two types of bird worship in the Yellow River Valley. The first one was the worship to raptors (or the birds with short tails) which was retained by the ethnic group living along the river systems in the east, while the second one was the worship to gorgeous birds (or the birds with long tails) which was retained by the ethnic group living among the mountains in the west. The former went through two phases of development: 1.The Totemism signified by Chixiao (strigidae) and Xuanniao (a bird looked kinda like swallow); 2. The majesty adoration signified by Hawks and falcons. The latter went through three phases: 1. The bird patterns coexisted with the fish patterns; 2. The pheasant patterns coexisted with Cunwu (a raven with three feet) patterns; 3. Realistic bird patterns turned to abstract patterns (such like a bird with three feathers and nine tails). In the latter two phases, the coexistence of bird and frog patterns evolved into the coexistence of sun and moon, which created the two symbolic traditions of sun raven and moon frog. It was presumed that the belief in the moon frog logically originated from the factors of moon worship as well as frog worship, while historically originated from the abstraction of symbols as a result of ethic integration—that is to say, the promotion from the symbol of frog to the symbol of moon.
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