What are the literary characteristics of Yugur nationality?

Yugur folk literature is rich in content and diverse in genre, including myths, legends, folk stories, folk songs, narrative poems, proverbs and aphorisms. Myths include creation myths, good and evil myths and love myths; Legends include ancient historical legends, legends of national ancestors, legends of working the legend of heroes, legends of emperors and generals, legends of witty people, legends of local conditions and customs, legends of marriage customs, legends of national struggles and so on. Folk stories include magic stories, strange stories, animal stories, life stories, anti-feudal ethics stories, love stories and so on. Folk songs include labor songs, such as rolling pin songs, mowing songs, milking lamb songs and so on. There are wine songs, wedding songs, shrine songs, crying wedding songs and so on. Life songs include knowledge songs and camel songs. Love songs include courtship songs, hymns and invitations. Narrative poems include the famous Sanama Marco and Huang Daichen, as well as many fables, jokes, aphorisms, slang and proverbs.

Due to the above-mentioned special migration history and cultural background, the Yugur nationality as the main body has not left much material and cultural heritage, and it is worth mentioning the clothing culture, among which the "head face" famous for its exquisite handicrafts is the most wonderful. Oral and intangible cultural heritage is rich and colorful, and folk literature mainly includes myths, legends, stories, folk songs, narrative poems, proverbs and riddles.

Folk songs, in particular, have unique styles and simple and beautiful tunes. Some scholars believe that Yugur folk songs have many similarities with Turkic folk songs and Mongolian folk songs recorded in ancient documents, and some of them are consistent with the four-line kotaro oshio rhyme folk songs recorded in the Turkic Dictionary. At the same time, they absorbed the minor songs of the Han nationality, the "teenagers" of the Hui and Dongxiang nationalities, Tibetan folk songs, distiller's yeast and Mongolian boxing. Narrative poetry has two parts: narration and singing, with singing as the main part and narration as the supplement. There are mainly Huang Daichen, Surimak, We are from Xizhi and Kazak.