Types of folk stories

Characters are the main category of stories.

Myths and legends

Myths and legends are the earliest fantasy oral prose works of human beings. The product of human childhood and the precedent of literature. Myth is based on the low level of productivity in ancient times, and people actively demand to know and dominate nature in order to survive and improve productivity. The content includes gods, immortals, ghosts, monsters and famous figures in history.

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The origin of legendary stories is generally the result of "word of mouth", and the content is mostly chivalrous and honest, corrupt officials and other people who are concerned by the people. This kind of story has a common feature, that is, what ordinary people can't do can be done in the story.

biography

Life stories are all stories of little people. These stories are widely circulated among ordinary people, including love stories, witty human fund stories, philosophical stories and so on.

gifted scholar and fair lady

In ancient times, most people in China were illiterate, but they had a worship of talented people and beautiful women. There are many such stories among some lower-class literati.

A story of solving a case

The widespread spread of the case-solving story is closely related to the darkness of feudal society, and the people are looking forward to the birth of an honest official who speaks for the people, so the honest official story is widely spread among the people and has become a sustenance of people's lives. In modern times, the case-solving story has become a topic of conversation after dinner, and it has also been widely circulated among the people. Folk stories can be divided into five categories, namely: fantasy stories, animal stories, life stories, folk fables and folk jokes.

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1, close to life

Folklore, produced after myths and legends, is a long-standing style after people become masters of the objective world. Although the content of the story has different degrees of fantasy elements, it is based on real life, and its theme, characters and main plot all conform to the life logic when the story is circulated. From myths and legends to metamorphosis, animal stories, fables, life stories and jokes, the fantasy of their contents and artistic techniques is weakened in turn, and the reality is enhanced in turn. This is the main feature that distinguishes folk stories from myths.

2. Most of them

Generally, it refers to the time and place where the story takes place, and the name of the hero of the story is often vague and uncertain. The narrative of the story pays attention to the narrative of the key plot, but does not describe all the details. The interest and attraction of the story mainly lies in the vividness of the plot. There are clouds (stories). This is the main feature that distinguishes stories from legends. Legends always try their best to implement the plot to some people, things and things, even if the plot is fictional.

Step 3 type

As a kind of collective creation, folk stories have obvious typological tendency in plot, theme and characters. Theme typology means that many stories express the same theme, such as expressing the desire to get rich or the weak win, praising wit and eloquence, satirizing stupidity and so on. Character typology means that the characters in many stories belong to the same image type, that is, the main characteristics of personality and behavior are the same, such as clever daughter-in-law, foolish son-in-law, witty personality and so on. In the process of communication, the same story will give rise to many similar sayings, and the same motif will be expressed in many different languages. Story frames with the same basic elements and stereotypes that run through many different languages are called "types". Genre analysis is an important method of story research, so that the study of story types has become a branch discipline, that is, story typology, in which a large number of works have appeared. Of course, typology is not only a feature of folk stories, but also of myths and legends, but the typology of stories is more prominent. It can be said that the story is the most typed narrative style. Related to typology, the story lacks a personalized description of people, events and scenes, and its narrative techniques are relatively rough. However, from another perspective, it is simple and simple, which conforms to the aesthetic taste of the people. The rough narrative is compensated by the strong interest of the plot, making the story the most widely influential one in modern folk narrative style.