What is folk literature

Folk literature is the oral collective creation of the people. It can be roughly divided into three categories:

1. Prose works-folk stories, including myths, legends, life stories, fairy tales, jokes, fables, etc.

2. Verse works - folk songs, folk poems (also divided into narrative poems and lyric poems), riddles, and proverbs.

3. Folk arts and folk operas - this is professional folk literature. Folk art also includes ten categories: storytelling, cross talk, allegro express script, drum lyrics, tanci, fishing drum Taoism, piano calligraphy, brand music, contemporary novels, walking singing, etc.