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China minority literature is the general name of all the brotherly national literature in China except Han nationality. It contains several meanings: ① China minority literature is relative to Han literature. (2) China's minority literature was jointly created by all the minority people in the past dynasties. It includes two parts: folk oral literature and written literature. ③ China minority literature is an organic part of China literature. As far as the development history of China literature is concerned, the Han literature is its main body, but the minority literature also has its position and function that can not be ignored, which reflects the richness of China literature.
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Basic information
Chinese Name: China Minority Literature
Interpretation: The general term for brotherly national literature except Han nationality.
Reflection: the richness of China's literature.
Creation: People of all ethnic minorities in past dynasties.
Rich and colorful folk literature
value
Folk literature occupies a particularly important position in the cultural history of ethnic minorities. Minority folk literature has a long history and is rich and colorful. Myths, legends, stories, ballads, narrative poems, riddles, proverbs and other works of various ethnic groups constitute the treasure house of minority folk literature. These works have been collected and sorted by ancient literati, and many of them have appeared in Chinese documents and ancient books of ethnic minorities. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the folk literature heritage of ethnic minorities has been valued and protected. There are tens of thousands of folk literature works collected and collated by various ethnic groups. They showed us the real life, spiritual culture and their ideals of people of all ethnic groups through vivid art paintings. These works of art have high cognitive value.
contribution
China minority folk literature has made a unique contribution to China literature, mainly in the following aspects: ① Myth. The treasure house of China minority myths is extremely rich. Influential mythological works collected by scholars include Yi people's creation poems, such as The Ancestors of Axi, Zhan and Leoteyi, Genesis of Naxi people, Genesis of Bai people, Miruotuo of Yao people, Where did the ancestors of Dong people come from, Miao people's epic and ancient songs of Miao people, and Where did the ancestors of Dong people come from of Hani people. Most of these mythological works narrate primitive human's understanding and explanation of the openness of the universe, the origin of human beings, the generation of all things in nature and the origin of nations through rich and peculiar imagination. The creation myths of all ethnic groups also have a unique narrative about the history of national cultural development. There are a large number of mythological works of ethnic minorities, which are still circulated in people's mouth completely, with simple content and strange imagination, and have high research value. ② Heroic narrative poems. Also known as heroic epic. Generally, it is a huge system with huge structure and huge momentum. It often crosses the boundaries of time and space and spreads among the people for a long time, becoming an encyclopedia or visualized history of this nation. Among these epics, the Tibetan Biography of King Gesar, the Mongolian Jianger and the Kirgiz Manas deserve special attention. These three epics have been included in the world heroic epics, attracting the attention of scholars. ③ Long folk narrative poems. Most of the long folk narrative poems are about love, and some are ordinary life narrative poems. Excellent works include Ashima, Summoning Tree Tun, Escaping Marriage, Aref, Sainaim (Uygur) and so on. These long poems reflect the real life of all ethnic groups. The images it provides about the production, life, customs and national character of ethnic minorities are of great value to literary research and folklore research.
Other forms
Besides myths, epics and long narrative poems, folk literature of ethnic minorities also shows other literary forms. Among them, the various manifestations of folk songs are valuable materials for the study of folk poetics. Flower Festival in northwest China, Song Festival of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, Walking Slope of Mulao nationality, Lusheng Festival of Miao nationality and Shi Baoshan Song Festival of Bai nationality are all traditional festivals of these nationalities. The study of China's poetry history can get rich information from minority folk songs.