【Abstract】 Summarizing the achievements and problems of theory of origin and formation of civilization in the academia at home and abroad, according to the common conditions of origin and formation of civilization of every country in the world , exploration and discrimination of the different courses and the different standard in the different steps those are the chief contents of researches in the origin and formation of civilization. On that foundation the intact and scientific theory of formation of civilization only can be established to fetch up the one-sidedness of "three-chief-element", "four-chief element" and "five-chief element" of the various view-points of the formation of civilization in the academia at home and abroad, and the different time when the chief elements of civilization were produced,the courses including germination, rudiment and last step of formation of civilization are strictly discriminated.更多还原