According to the theory of evolution, human beings evolved from ancient apes and hominids. I often express this viewpoint in common parlance, saying that “our ancestors were monkeys” or “each of us is a monkey that has evolved from monkeys”. Although we human beings have left our “monkey” status for a long time, we still have many “monkey” marks on our bodies. For example, the presence of body hair on many parts of our bodies is hard evidence that we can hardly deny that we are the descendants of monkeys. However, we human beings seem to have a tendency to forget our ancestors, as if we are ashamed to admit that we are the heirs of “monkeys”, and we always want to clear our relationship with our “monkey” ancestors in various ways, and we are especially good at making ourselves appear to be very different from “monkeys”. The “monkeys” are particularly adept at presenting themselves as the opposite of the “monkeys”, and in certain aspects of instinctive activity, they have reached the highest level of excellence. It could even be argued that the thing we humans are most happy to do is to try to prove how different we are from monkeys or even irrelevant to each other, and such a behavioral trait is probably a sign of over-civilization. In modern society, I believe that over-civilization has led to some troubling problems, some of which are related to mental health, and so, have caused me concern and reflection. A small glimpse of this is found in the tube. I think the taboos on dressing in modern times are sufficient to reflect the dangers of over-civilization. The original purpose of human ancestors to wear clothes must have been to protect themselves from the cold, but later people took it for granted that they wore clothes to “cover their shame”. In some famous Chinese and Western paintings or popular science drawings, the first part of the human ancestor’s body that had leaves and other coverings was the “pubic area” around the waist. In fact, that was imposed on them by our descendants. I believe that our ancestors, before they were enlightened or civilized, were still struggling for food and warmth, and had no concept of the so-called “shame” that our descendants considered. Imagine a group of male apes or primitive people who were eager to catch prey in the wild or carry them back to their tribes for distribution to their companions, would they care whether their lower parts were covered with leaves or not? Therefore, at that stage of human beings, the most important function of wearing all kinds of clothing is to keep warm: in the cold night, if apes can have animal skins to protect themselves from the cold, they must cover the parts where they feel the coldest such as the hands and feet with poor blood circulation rather than the lower abdomen and buttocks which are rich in blood supply and subcutaneous fat, as well as the external genital organs which grow in that area. Moreover, genital worship was an almost universal cultural phenomenon in the ancient stages of many civilizations. At that stage of human civilization, I am afraid that no one would consider the exposure of external genitals as a shameful act, and no one would deliberately wear clothing that could “cover up” for hunting, working or other social activities. Clothing’s function of covering and beautifying was not possible until long after the beginning of human civilization. However, these additional meanings based on warmth have been over-exaggerated, and the exposure of the “shame” of being covered has been regarded as uncivilized, shameful, and even an unforgivable sin. Worse still, some people have put such behavior on a pedestal, thinking that if such behavior is allowed to go unchecked, there will really be a “breakdown of etiquette and music”, and “the country will be ruined”, so much so that children defecating in the streets of Hong Kong, and even infants and young children wearing crotchless pants, have been criticized as uncivilized phenomena. In fact, sometimes there are even more extreme cases. In fact, sometimes there are even more extreme cases: Some time ago, in a Beijing subway carriage, a mother did not cover herself tightly when breastfeeding her baby, which led to criticisms and accusations by some people and caused an uproar. Such attitude and practice is comparable to the ancient Chinese requirement of “starving to death is a small matter, but losing one’s modesty is a big matter”, which proves that after entering the 21st century, many people’s mindset is still stuck in the stage of the imperial society in ancient China. Sometimes I would like to think that we grew up in crotch pants, not many children have become anti-civilization hooligans or criminals; when the rural collectivization of production activities, those who can only feed the baby in full view of the women did not become a slut. It can be seen that the meaning of clothes in the civilization of mankind is some members of mankind attached to the original warmth of the function of the gorgeous decoration, and people are overly concerned about and emphasize the meaning of these additions, including shame, is not far from the level of the buyer’s box. This analogy can be made: the warmth of clothes for human beings is the “snow in the charcoal”, which is the basic function; the shyness and beautification of clothes is the “icing on the cake”, which is based on people’s so-called civilized conceptual understanding, but in fact it is a dispensable function. In addition, people’s deliberate demand for clothing to cover up the function of shame may also be related to certain Chinese cultural dregs or dark psychological tendencies. Such a dark psychology is like what Mr. Lu Xun said, “As soon as I see short sleeves, I immediately think of white arms, I immediately think of total nudity, I immediately think of genitals, I immediately think of sexual intercourse, I immediately think of promiscuity, I immediately think of illegitimate children.” In fact, these people tend to have the mentality that only the guardians of feudal rites may have, and they tend to have the fear that if the taboos on dressing are liberalized, there will be a breakdown of order and propriety, and people will regress to the state of sexual promiscuity of primitive society. This is definitely a modern version of the unfounded worry. Based on the above analysis, I believe that the first priority of people’s clothing is to keep warm, on this basis, the appropriate increase in aesthetic features may help to enhance people’s level of aesthetics, as to whether or not there should be a sufficiently tight cover-up function, there should be some variations: the age of the different occasions are different, and do not have to be forced to achieve the degree of perfection. For example, should be allowed to wear the appropriate age group of children exposed a little, can wear bibs, crotch pants, and even public defecation, as long as it does not undermine environmental health can be. Because in the early years of certain instinctive activities related to human beings, too many restrictions, too strict, in the long run will result in the formation of certain unnecessary taboo concepts, for sensitive individuals, but also easy to form obsessive-compulsive disorder and phobias and other mental disorders. To require workers to remain fully clothed and not to expose their bodies when engaging in heavy physical labor during the hot summer months is not only a draconian policy that lacks humane care, but is also difficult to implement and is definitely not desirable. Of course, changing people’s rigid and unreasonable concept of civilization is a more important task, which requires the whole society to gradually form a more rational and flexible concept of civilization. Modern people’s obsessive emphasis on civilization in dressing is actually the pursuit of over-civilization, which is tantamount to cocooning oneself, keeping people away from freedom and happiness, and also bringing about some mental health problems. Similarly, people’s pursuit of over-civilization in other areas will have similar drawbacks.