brief Introduction of the content
China Folk Tales Long Edition is the key book in the 11th Five-Year Plan and the achievement of the National Social Science Fund project. It is the first systematic and comprehensive folk story reader compiled from ancient literature in China, which has gathered thousands of important folk story materials. The author has lasted for more than 20 years, and has high information value and academic value, which fills the gap in domestic related research.
Through text reading, the book sorts out the original folk stories from the above-mentioned essays, historical records, literati's notes, religious classics and folk manuscripts, and roughly combs the evolution track of such stories. Therefore, this book will bring great convenience to scholars who study traditional culture, folklore, classical literature, classical drama, popular literature and aesthetics, and has high data value. This book is not only based on a large number of ancient books, but also studies a large number of stories and combs the historical evolution of these stories or story types, which has high academic value. At the same time, the book adopts two kinds of classified indexes: story theme and story structure, which increases the convenience of retrieving materials and opens up an effective way for the exchange of China folk stories around the world. Before the publication of this book, it has had a certain influence on folklore researchers in Taiwan Province Province, Japanese, Korean and other countries and regions.