The difference between fairy tales and folklore

1. Legends and myths have different identities and attributes

1. The heroes of myths are gods of superman and supernatural power, and their stories are centered on godhead, which is the result of the personification of various animals and plants and the deification of various social life forces.

2. The protagonists of stories are generally well-known and have surnames, some of them are well-known figures in history, and the events took place at a specific time and place, and some also involved major events of the country and the nation; However, the results of people's activities or events are often associated with some historical and geographical phenomena and social customs, which often gives people the illusion that it is true history.

2. The social imagination reflected is different from the creative thinking mechanism

1. The emergence of myth also depends on the social nature at that time. At that time, people had to rely on the collective to get the means of subsistence and resist wild animals and enemies; The income from labor is limited and must be distributed equally. Under the primitive commune system, the main contradiction between man and nature has become the center of people's attention.

reflects the primitive people's understanding of the objective world. It is an ideological form that reflects reality, and it is also a superstructure produced on a certain economic basis.

2. Legend tells a specific person or event in a certain historical era in a conscious or relatively conscious way of thinking, which is bound by the time and place.

3. Legends and myths have different functions

1. The emergence of myths is combined with the struggle of primitive humans against nature for their own survival. Eager to know and conquer nature, reduce labor and ensure life. They turned this will and desire into concrete images and vivid plots through unconscious imagination, so there was a myth.

2. Legends describe people, events and all kinds of scenery in a special historical period, with distinctive local and national characteristics, and their contents have certain educational and entertainment functions.

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