What does folk culture include?

Folk culture refers to folk customs and life culture. Generally speaking, it refers to the customs and habits created, enjoyed and passed down by people living together in a country, nationality or region. It is a series of immaterial things formed by ordinary people in their production and life.

Characteristics of folk culture

(1) Folk culture is the inheritance of ancient primitive culture. Therefore, oral transmission from generation to generation is the most basic cultural communication feature of the emergence and development of folk culture.

(2) The continuous spread in all directions in space is the communication feature of folk culture moving by means of geographical relations, so folk culture has formed the distribution space of many homogeneous and heterogeneous cultural circles and cultural belts. There are 56 nationalities in China. First, our folk culture is based on ethnic groups. When you arrive in Xinjiang, you will immediately feel the folk customs of the Uighurs, and then when you arrive in Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, you will feel the folk customs of Kazakhstan. When foreigners come to China, they can not only feel the folk customs of China, but also feel the folk customs of Dai and Yi nationalities in different categories. Therefore, we must have this national concept and pay special attention to the blending of various national cultures. Xinjiang's national culture is not entirely Uygur or Kazakh, but has absorbed the cultures of Han and other nationalities.

(3) The collectivity of folk culture is very important. Taking families, villages, tribes, communities, nationalities and other groups as units, it is a common group feature to participate in folk activities. Especially in festivals, temple fairs, weddings and funerals, birthdays, fairs, collective production and other large-scale activities, the characteristics of this group conformity are very distinct.

(4) Under the condition of long-term slow social evolution, China folk culture is always characterized by cultural conservatism or lack of stability.

(5) Under the condition of rapid social changes, folk culture presents inevitable or passive variability characteristics.

(6) Folk culture has a unique symbol system. The symbolic system of symbolic thinking is one of the most remarkable characteristics of folk culture. In particular, we can immediately understand the folk information and connotation they symbolize through signs, figures, patterns, colors, styles, various sound codes and other symbols received by hearing. The symbolic system of China folk custom is very prominent, even unique in the world. Of course, neighboring countries are also influenced by China's Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Eight Diagrams and other symbols, which can be used for reference.