Is Liang Zhu a folk story?

Butterfly lovers is a folk story, and butterfly lovers is one of the four ancient folk love stories in China. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, this story has been circulated among the people 1700 years. China can be said to be a household name, spread far-reaching, known as the eternal swan song of love.

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. They are the general names of all folk prose works, and in some places they are also called "nonsense", "old saying" and "ancient prose 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.

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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.

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.