Quotes and Sayings about Folkways and Folklore

Quotations and aphorisms about folkways and customs:

1. Author: Lin Huiyin. Source: Beyond the Window.

Healthy traveling can not only look at the famous scenery and ancient temples, but also know a little bit of the pure and simple human customs in the Mainland.

2. Author: Balzac. Source: Eugénie Grande.

Money controls laws, politics and customs to an unprecedented degree. No matter what righteousness or unrighteousness, as long as one can reach the earthly paradise and enjoy the blessings of prosperity, turning one's heart and liver into iron and calloused hands to strive for temporal wealth, this is the most common today everywhere unveiled thought, even in the law is written in this way.

3. Author: Qian Zhongshu. Source: Man-Beast-Ghost.

Isn't it said that our country, our people, our customs and our psychology are the opposite of those of the West? We are an Eastern nation, they want to count the Western nation; we are Chinese, they are always foreigners; we wave, fingers down, they wave, hard to put the finger up, we salute bending the knee.

4. Author: Wang Zengqi. Source: Precepts.

White eyes are green as duck eggs, black eyes are black as chess pieces, as clear as water when they are fixed, and like stars when they are flashing. His head is his head and his feet are his feet. The hair is slippery and the clothes are made of a cloth. --The custom here, fifteen or sixteen year old girls are combed on the head. These two girls, this head of good hair! Reddish roots, white hairpins! The mother and daughter went to the market, and all the people in the market looked at them.

5. Author: Kotaro Isaka. Source: A punk song to save the planet.

Traditional customs that transcend generations are never a bad thing. In today's Japan, there is almost no transmission of ideas from one generation to the next, and people don't value ideas and common sense; they throw them away as soon as they're used, and don't realize the importance of accumulating wisdom and knowledge.

Expanded Information:

1. p>1, folk customs and folklore is a specific socio-cultural region within the successive generations of people *** with the observance of the pattern of behavior. The diversity of customs, is customary, people tend to be caused by the natural conditions of the differences in behavioral norms, called "wind"; and will be caused by the differences in social and cultural differences in the rules of behavior, called "common".

2, folk customs of the Spring Festival is the Chinese nation's longest history, the most grand folk festival. In Taiwan and Fujian Province across the water, its history and culture, customs, living customs, relatives and so on are with the motherland, especially in Fujian Minnan region of the same lineage, so the island people's Spring Festival customs are naturally the same as the motherland folk.

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