A brief analysis of the classification of Chinese folk fairy tales

Classification of fairy tales

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Anthropomorphic fairy tales

The protagonists of these fairy tales are mostly various personified beings other than humans. Living or inanimate things. For example, cats, dogs,

fish, insects, birds, trees, rocks, wind?

Children's fairy tales often use anthropomorphic writing, such as kittens fishing, singing in streams? In "Little Elephant's Birthday on the Slide", animals such as Xiaojin

silky monkey,

bunny, little squirrel,

puppy, as well as originally inanimate animals Like slides, they can talk and have various behaviors

and emotions.

In "Little Tiger Eats Chocolate", the little old man wants to eat chocolate, and the tiger mother coaxes him to eat meat, and the little monkey goes up the tree to pick pears, etc.

In the animal world and the human world Shadows can be found in both, but they are not the same.

Fairy tales with ordinary human bodies

The characters in these fairy tales look exactly like ordinary people, but their personalities, behaviors, and experiences are extremely exaggerated, often

Somewhat ironic and symbolic.

For example, in "Weird TV",

"I" is an ordinary child, but his experience is very special: on his TV, the lion

He actually ran out, the person on the TV actually turned his head down and his feet up, and in turn laughed at "I" for being upside down. He also fought with the thief on the TV and so on.

"Fat School"

Whether it is Principal Wai Wai, the examiner, or Yuanyuan, Qiu Qiu, or Tuan Tuan , although they are all ordinary people, such people cannot be found in the real world.

Superhuman fairy tales

This kind of fairy tales describe supernatural characters and their activities.

The protagonists are often gods, demons, fairies, and demons.

Giant dwarfs, etc.

They

most of them have unpredictable magic and various extraordinary skills. This kind of fairy tales are often seen in folk fairy tales and classical fairy tales. .

However, this method of expression is often used in the fairy tale creations of some modern fairy tale writers.

For example, in "Colorful Cloud Carpet", the fairies in white, the sun god, the rain god, etc. are all supernatural characters, and the seven fairies collect clouds of various colors

Behaviors such as weaving cloud blankets

cannot be found in real society.

But the thoughts and feelings expressed in the works are

all human beings. ***some.

Classical fairy tale

A type of literary fairy tale.

Generally refers to the fairy tales created by ancient writers of various ethnic groups;

Sometimes it also specifically refers to some of the outstanding works.

For example, the fairy tales created by the Danish writer Andersen in the 19th century,

The Italian Collodi's

"Pinocchio"

UK Carroll's

"Love

Liz's Adventures in Wonderland" and so on.

Folk fairy tales

Folk fairy tales are fantasy stories created and circulated among the people that are suitable for children to read.

The plot of the story is strange and touching,

with strong fantasy and rich imagination, and is welcomed by the masses.

There are two types of fantasy in folk fairy tales:

One is that the fantasy plot runs throughout the story.

Another kind of fantasy plot is only partially expressed.

Folk

The development of fantasy plots in folk fairy tales has two starting points:

One is to praise labor,

to help simplicity workers;

First, love

the kind and poor oppressed people. In short, it reflects the desire of kind people for a better life. The ending of fairy tales always

The honest, kind, simple, insulted and oppressed people get good results, while all the bad guys fail in the end. In character configuration,

use clear contrast method. Such as two brothers with opposite moral character,

a master and a servant with different hearts, etc.

After many iterations of the story

and all kinds of entanglements, the good guys and the bad guys finally got opposite endings, showing people's passion for kindness, integrity,

hardworking and other virtues

< p>Praise to love and sharp criticism of greed, selfishness, cruelty and other ugly behaviors.

Folk fairy tales are very rich in ideological content.

Common themes include the praise of labor and workers,

the hope of a better life in the future

< p>Pursue,

make a better life and the outcome of victory linked to labor and

wisdom. In the development of the plot,

magical

treasures or animals often appear as the protagonist's assistants and weapons.

They are only effective if they are in the hands of the protagonist with good character.

And

If the bad guy gets hold of it, it will either lose its effect or be punished< /p>