What do folk stories include?

There are many folk stories in China, such as The Legend of the White Snake, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnv crying at the Great Wall and so on.

Folk stories are one of the important themes of folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk stories are oral literary works in the form of fictional prose created and disseminated by working people, which are the general name of all folk prose works, and some places also call them "nonsense", "old sayings" and "ancient classics". Folk story is a kind of narrative story with a wide range of topics and full of fantasy, which tells the various relationships between people in strange language and symbol forms. Folk stories start from life itself, but are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. They often contain natural and whimsical ingredients.

major feature

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1. has a long history, and it often endures with the growth of human beings.

2. Oral communication, folk stories are mostly spread in oral form.

3. The plot is exaggerated and full of fantasy, showing people's good wishes.

4. Symbolic forms are often used, and the content often contains supernatural and whimsical elements. Folk stories, like all excellent works, are based on life itself, but they are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. [ 1]?

Main categories

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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. [ 1]?

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. [ 1]?

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.

Detailed content

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Love legend

Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a famous folk love story in ancient China. It is said that the granddaughter Weaver of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is very good at weaving, weaving rosy clouds for the sky every day. She hated this boring life, so she secretly descended to the world, married the cowherd in Hexi privately, and lived a life of male ploughing and female weaving. This angered the Emperor of Heaven, took the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered them to separate, allowing them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Their unswerving love touched magpies, and countless magpies flew in and built a magpie bridge across the Tianhe River with their bodies, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet on the Tianhe River. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as "Chinese Valentine's Day", it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the "Queqiao" every year. For thousands of years, this ancient and touching love story has been handed down from generation to generation, and this day is also praised by modern people as the China version of Valentine's Day.

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Meng Jiangnu cry the Great Wall

This is a famous ancient folklore in China. It is widely circulated in the form of drama, folk songs, poetry and rap, and is a household name. According to legend, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, the labor was heavy, and young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu got married for three days. The groom was forced to start building the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the walls of the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnv wore a warm coat and went through a lot of hardships. Wan Li came to the Great Wall to look for her husband, but what he got was her bad news. She wept bitterly at the gate of the city for three days and nights, and the city was torn apart, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnv threw herself into the sea in despair. The legend of Meng Jiangnv crying on the Great Wall is not only widely circulated in China's Shandong, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu, Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, but also well known by people in Japan, Russia and other countries, and gradually forms various versions of the legend.

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Liang Zhu.

It's about the Western Jin Dynasty. Liang Zhu has been a classmate for three years, but he hasn't seen his daughter. Before Liang Shanbo died, he asked his family to bury himself by the road where Zhu Yingtai's wedding sedan chair passed, so that he could see Zhu Yingtai get married. Zhu Yingtai learned that he was married in mourning, and when he passed by Liang Shanbo's grave, he offered to get off the sedan chair to pay homage. As a result, he was killed in front of the willow tree while people were unprepared. The legend of butterfly lovers is the most brilliant oral inheritance art in China, and it is also the only Chinese folk literature and art with extensive influence in the world. People often call butterfly lovers "Romeo and Juliet in the East"-however, butterfly lovers, who also embodies human loyalty to love, is not only thousands of years earlier than Luo Zhu, but also has a much more tortuous and vivid story.

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The Lair of the White Worm

The Legend of the White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it is a model of China's folk collective creation. This paper describes a tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates human form and human beings. Stories include the story of Wupeng boat borrowing an umbrella, the story of White Snake stealing Ganoderma lucidum, the story of flooding Jinshan, the story of broken bridge, the story of Leifeng Tower, the story of Xu Xian Shilin sacrificing the son of the tower, and the story of Fahai escaping from the crab's stomach. It expresses the people's admiration for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable bondage of feudal forces. It was listed as "the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage". According to this story, many TV dramas and cartoons were filmed.

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