What is folk literature?

Its genre includes myth, epic, folklore, folk story, folk song, folk narrative poem, folk opera, rap, proverb, riddle, folk art, ritual recitation and so on. Of course, folk literature also includes written documents, classics, baojuan, songbooks and operas; Pattern plastic arts; Music and dance; /kloc-festivals at the age of 0/8; Media carriers such as electronic media and Internet.

Oral traditions and language arts that people inherit, spread and enjoy in their life culture and life world. Folk literature has its particularity in four aspects: oral, inheritance, collectivity and variability.

Extended data

Chinese folk literature is a multi-ethnic folk literature, and the folk literature of all ethnic groups has obvious mutual exchange and influence. China is a multi-ethnic country. Besides the Han nationality, there are more than 50 ethnic minorities living here. The Han nationality has a large population and its civilization developed earlier. But it was not a single nation at first, and only in the historical development did it form a unified nation.

In its whole cultural form, it also contains independent and distinct cultural elements. At the same time, in the integration and development of the Han nationality itself, it interacts and promotes with many neighboring nationalities in culture. Therefore, the folk literature of the Han nationality and the folk literature of all ethnic groups are intertwined and interrelated.

The ethnic groups who came into contact earlier or lived in staggered or adjacent areas had more significant traces of influence. The mutual acceptance of folk literature by all ethnic groups is mostly based on their own life and culture, and they choose, accept, transform and process it. They tried their best to nationalize it. This is the natural law of the influence of inter-ethnic cultural exchanges.

Some genres of folk literature, such as folk stories, are not only similar in thought and expression, but also similar in basic characters and plots, and even geographically far apart. For example, China has long-term cultural exchanges with Indian, Japanese and other neighboring countries.

Therefore, China's folk literature, especially prose narrative works, is closely related to similar works of those countries or nations. Judging from the mutual exchange and influence of folk literature, the literary and cultural exchanges of all nationalities in the world have a long history.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Folk Literature

Baidu encyclopedia-folk literature