本文以夏代始祖鯀禹啟三代的化熊神話的解讀為例，依據新出土的二重證據及三、四重證據（出土實物及圖像），重構早已失落的夏代熊圖騰信仰，並上溯到「黃帝有熊」之謎的發生，說明文化人類學視野如何能夠幫助我們解決歷史上無解的難題－遠古失落的文化記憶，催生國學傳統考據研究的新化合反應－四重證據法，昭示其立體釋古方式所蘊涵的知識更新效應。

This paper focus on the new explanation of Chinese myths about the Metamorphosis of Gun, Yu and Qi, three divine kings of the Xia Dynasty (about 2100BC).Using the main evidences from new excavated prehistoric figures of bears in northern China, the author tries to answer the question why the Yellow Emperor named 「having bear」(YOU XIONG), and why the Chinese people got lost their ancient bear totem in the history, and how the divine figure Dragon replaced the divine bear.