What stories or jokes are there?

Folk stories are one of the important categories in folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk stories are oral literary works in the form of fictional prose created and disseminated by working people. They are the general names of all folk prose works, and some places are called "lies", "old sayings" and "ancient classics". Folk story is a kind of narrative story with a wide range of topics and full of fantasy, which has been circulated orally by people since ancient times and tells the various relationships between people in the form of strange language and symbols. Folk stories start from life itself, but they are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. They often contain natural and whimsical ingredients.

main features:

1. It is a long time, and it is often enduring 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, which mostly shows 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, start from life itself, but they are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. [1]

Features:

1. Close to life

Folk stories, which came into being later than myths and legends, are long-standing styles after people became the 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 are in line with the life logic when the story is spread. From myths and legends to metamorphosis stories, 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. Generality

Generally refers to the time and place where the story happened, and the name of the hero in the story is often vague and uncertain. The narrative of the story pays attention to the account 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 floating clouds (stories). This is the main feature that distinguishes stories from legends. Legends always try their best to implement the plot to certain people, things and things, even though the plot is fictional.

3. Typing

As a collective creation, folk stories have a marked tendency to be typed in plot, theme and characters. Typing of themes 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. Typing of characters means that the characters in many stories belong to the same image type, that is, the main characteristics in character and behavior are the same, such as clever daughter-in-law, foolish son-in-law and witty character. In the process of communication, the same story will give birth to many kinds of similar sayings, and the same motif will be expressed in many different languages. The story frame with the same basic elements and stereotypes running through many different languages is called "type". Type analysis is an important method of story research, so that the study of story type has become a branch discipline, that is, story typology, in which a large number of works have appeared. Of course, typology is not only the characteristic of folk stories, but also myths and legends, but the typology of stories is more prominent. It can be said that stories are the most typed narrative style. Related to typology, the story lacks personalized description of people, things and scenery, and its narrative techniques are sketchy, but from another point of view, it is simple and simple, which is in line with the aesthetic taste of the people, and the lack of sketchy narrative is compensated by the strong interest of the plot, making the story the most widely influential one in modern folk narrative style.