Due to the great changes of the times and society, some genres of oral inheritance literature that used to be the only literary form of working people in history may gradually disappear, and the contents and forms of some genres have to change, and there will be new genres that we are not familiar with. All these are possible, even inevitable. However, the whole folk literature will never disappear. Because its expression medium is the most common, vivid and dynamic oral language. As long as language exists, oral literature that expresses people's thoughts, feelings and experiences through language will continue to produce, exist and pass on. In China, the Soviet Union and other countries, in addition to traditional folk literature, there are new folk literature, namely revolutionary legends, new jokes, new folk songs and new proverbs. From the historical past, in addition to their written works, the literati and scholars in the upper class who were able to use words in the past were still making and disseminating anecdotes, jokes and rhymes of those who verbally commented on people, such as some stories in Shi Shuo Xin Yu and jokes about some celebrities in the notes of the Tang Dynasty.
The above four characteristics are not isolated, on the contrary, they are interrelated (some have been mentioned earlier). These characteristics are mainly put forward from the differences between folk literature and written literature of professional writers. They can let us know the characteristics of this kind of literature to a considerable extent, but this is not the whole story. When measuring the value of literature, the concept of "people's nature" is often put forward. From the content, this is an important concept. Whether a writer's work is valuable depends first on whether it stands on the standpoint of the broad masses of people and expresses their experiences, ideals and emotions. In addition, there are naturally people's aesthetic tastes. The higher the popularity of the people, the more powerful the art can be, and such works are undoubtedly treasures in the art treasure house. In this sense, people's oral creation has its great advantages. In the long-term class society, the broad masses of the people are producers of social material wealth and cultural wealth of many ethnic groups. Because of their social status, they have disadvantages in cultural creation, but on the other hand, they get extremely rich rewards. They are creators and witnesses of history. As an important part of literature and art, people's social life, struggle, thoughts, feelings and hopes are all experienced by themselves. Their literary and artistic traditions are the fruits of the evergreen tree of social life. In this sense, they are "blessed". Many excellent progressive writers, because of their sympathy and understanding of the working people, have written works with people's nature or even a high degree of people's nature, which is of course commendable. However, due to the distance of life itself, although their works are unattainable, there are often some obstacles in understanding and expressing people's psychology, which makes their works have certain limitations. In this case, we can easily find examples of people's sufferings in China's ancient poems. At this point, the author of folk literature naturally has its advantages. As long as you listen to the stories of "long-term workers' songs" and "long-term workers' landlords" circulated in China in the past, you can understand this point. They themselves are experiencers or witnesses of literary content, so some scholars call this popularity "direct popularity".
Generally speaking, the content of folk literature with superior people's nature is quite extensive. Some works imaginatively depict the wonderful scene of the birth of nature and all things; Some semi-realistically and semi-fantastically describe the early conditions and activities of human beings and their cultural development; Some describe the origin, migration process and outstanding leaders of the nation. Some works depict heroes who resist oppression and disaster; Some depict folk wise men who play tricks on class enemies; Some are skilled craftsmen and doctors who show their skills and medical skills; Some people create intelligent superman or women who are shocked by the world. Some works directly pour out repressed pain, or express passionate and sincere love, or express yearning for the ideal of life. Folk literature is the product of people's long-term social life. It is produced and spread according to the needs of their social life, and it accurately reflects all aspects of their lives and related thoughts and feelings. It directly or indirectly serves their lives-giving them knowledge, guidance, encouragement and hope, some of which are part of their lives.