As an oral art, there are generally several types of folk stories.

As an oral art, folk stories generally have two types: fixed types and repeated paragraphs. 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, which are the general name of all folk prose works, and some places also call them "nonsense", "old sayings" and "ancient 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. Folk stories start from life itself, but are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. They often contain natural and whimsical ingredients.