Terminology of Folklore

Folklore, also known as folk culture, refers to the cultural matters that are gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation in the long-term production practice and social life of an ethnic group or a social group, which can be briefly summarized as the popular folk customs and practices.

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folklore

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folklore

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folk culture

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Representation of Folklore

Interpretation

(1) Customs and habits of the people. Xue Fucheng of the Qing Dynasty, "Creating the opening of China's railroads to discuss the疏"："Folk customs have changed, and then Merchants ...... can be gradually pushed to broaden the range of gradual continuation of the distance."

(2) the people's life, production, customs and practices. Pipe Zi - positive world": "the ancient desire for the world to adjust the world, must first observe the state government, information affairs, inspect the people's customs, the governance of the birth of chaos, know where the gains and losses, and then engaged in."

Folk culture is fluid and evolving, and it mutates at every stage of society and seeks to survive and develop in the midst of mutation. When Chinese society is at the critical moment of economic transformation, the transformation of the people's ideology and lifestyle will inevitably be manifested in the change of folk culture, which is an objective reality that cannot be shifted by human will. Finding folk cultural relics and leaving behind the history of the people's life has become a serious subject. China is a country with a long history of folk culture, and folk culture is not only a continuation of history, but will continue to continue. It is this folk culture, in the process of its formation and development, that has created the spiritual tradition and humanistic character of the Chinese nation, so it is of great significance to carry forward the tradition of Chinese folk culture to enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation. [1]

Originality

Folklore is the people's inherited culture of the most relevant to the body and mind and life of a culture - labor with the production of labor folklore, daily life in the daily life of folklore, traditional festivals in the traditional festivals of folklore, the social organization of social organizations folklore, the growth of life at all stages also need to be regulated - marriage, marriage, and the development of folklore. Folklore is needed to regulate the various stages of life growth - marriage people need to have a wedding ceremony or ritual to seek social acceptance, there are also folklore in the field of human spiritual consciousness - many of life's taboos are so: the New Year's Eve from 30 to the second day of the New Year, the home is not permitted to sweep the floor, if you do it will destroy the fortune of the coming year. will destroy the fortune of the coming year.

Attributes

Patterned must not be random, temporary, or improvised, but usually transcends time and space, which is the premise of folklore's inheritance, extensiveness, and stability: an activity that takes place here and now is not folklore if it is not practiced again by others; it can only be folklore if it transcends the context and becomes the content of many others who have practiced the same thing many times. Only when the activity transcends the context and becomes practiced by many people many times, can it be a folklore that is passed on from one person to another and from one generation to another. In addition, folklore has variability. Folklore is a culture of life, not a canonical culture, it does not have a text, and it is mainly passed down from person to person and from generation to generation by the way of learning by ear and teaching by word and example. Even under basically the same conditions, it is not possible to repeat it without any problem, and in the ever-changing life situation, the subject of the activity must be adjusted appropriately, and the folklore will then change. This kind of difference manifests itself in individuals and groups, including occupational groups, regional groups, and class groups, which gives rise to the industrial, regional, and class nature of folklore. If the time factor is highlighted, a generation or an era inherits, changes, and innovates previous folklore. This change between time periods is the epochal nature of folklore.

Classification

The purpose of determining the scope and classification of folklore is to establish a theoretical framework for understanding and describing folklore. Regarding the scope and categorization of folklore, different folklorists have their own set of statements due to different academic backgrounds and specific subject needs. Folklore in its natural state is colorful and multifarious, and soon after the emergence of folklore, scholars tried to grasp them in outline.