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Values and Functions of Folk Literature

I. Recognizing Values 1. Folk Literature and People's History

Folk Literature is an organic part of people's life, a mirror of social life, and people can see the vein of the development of human history from folk literature. Gorky: It is impossible to know the true history of the working people without knowing the oral creations of the people. Lafargue, a student of Marx and his son-in-law, who later became an activist in the 19th-century French workers' movement, said:

Folklore is the faithful, frank and spontaneous expression of the souls of the people, their confidants and friends, and their scientific, religious and astronomical memoranda. Therefore, folklore is the history of the people

The oral history of the people, in the early days of a variety of myths, epics, image of the prehistoric human society to convey a variety of information. This kind of all with its unique human childhood innocence, and persistence, showed

irreplaceable cultural and historical value. After the emergence of class society, class oppression, class exploitation, and the resistance of the oppressed class constituted an important part of social life, and at the same time, became an important subject of oral literature

frequent expression. Here, the naturalness of the confrontation between the peasant class and the landlord class and the reasonableness of the rebellion of the peasant class are fully expressed, and these works, not only realistically present

the sufferings and injustices of the real society, but also reflect the inner regularity of the social and historical development with their characteristic sensitivity and profoundness. It is a history of people's lives written orally in an artistic way, which has left a precious and living cultural history for future generations, so that the value of folklore not only does not disappear with the passage of time, but also with the continuation of history, and the more it is used as an object of reflection to recognize and study. 2, folk literature and folk customs

Folk creation, itself a way of existence of folk life. Folklore is an organic part of social life. When it appears in the form of a thought, it is a kind of folklore psychology, folk concepts;

When it appears in a certain way of behavior, it constitutes a kind of faith activities or folk rituals; and when it is manifested in people's oral, in many cases, it becomes an oral creation. For example, the

legend of the Cowherd and the Weaveress

legend is not only a legend, but also the legacy of a belief, as well as a factual record of folk activities. So from a certain point of view, folk works, both customary content and customary form. It is a kind of

customary painting. 3, folklore and popular ethics

Folk works are also very extensive and profound reflection of human relations. Among them, home, family, and kinship relations are often involved in folk works, which have unique value for recognizing the folk

ethnic character of China's family structure and the concept of popular ethics. Family, the basic folk form of social structure, is the smallest social group. The family relationship is the earliest form of connection between human beings and society. Within the family, the seniority of the family is determined by the seniority of the family, and the closeness of the family is determined by the bloodline. The family is a family that is not only concerned with the welfare of its elders, but also with the love of its children and grandchildren, and with its daughters-in-law. Because the only value of the marriage relationship is the birth of children

daughter, the continuation of the flame. This is a characteristic of family relations and a traditional conception of the Chinese people.

There are two pairs of basic contradictions within the family structure: one is the contradiction between blood parents and their immediate juniors; the other is the contradiction between immediate blood relatives and in-laws of foreign sex. The Nine Clans, the completed form of the feudal family,

that is to say, taking myself as the base, pushing up four generations to the high ancestor, and pushing down four generations to the descendants, even myself and their spouses together constitute the paternal blood relatives family. On this basis, and by way of marriage, expand

Expansion of a wider range of kinship structure, "seven aunts and eight aunts" relationship, is the base and core of the feudal relationship. "In the old days, people could become officials on the basis of a number of criteria, such as the number of people in the family. In the olden days, officials could bring each other up by blood relations

In the private sector, when members of the kinship were not strong enough to carry out a certain function, the kinship structure would be extended outward. "Brothers in arms" become quasi-blood relations. "Buddyhood" is quite deep. 4, folklore and popular psychology

Through folklore, we can find the track of the traditional psychology of the people. The psychological activity of the people is complex, and there are various factors affecting the psychological activity of individuals. The psychological structure of the nation is the result of history

of the accumulation of layers. Such as folk beliefs, rooted in deep soil. It is mainly manifested in the following aspects. (1) the "nature worship" as the core of the concept of "everything has a spirit"; (2) the concept of ghosts and spirits of the fascination

belief. (Human beings have souls, and when they wake up, they are united with their physical bodies, and when they sleep, they leave - dreaming, keeping spirits, and transforming themselves into something else.) (3) Blind worship of various "supernatural powers". The emergence of various rituals, the formation of

fixed time and content of the cycle of commemorative activities, and evolved into a variety of traditional festivals.

In short, this cognitive value of folklore is not entirely positive, but it provides us with a living history of life. It is valuable for us to recognize both the history and the present situation of the Chinese nation.

II. Literary Value (Artistic Value) Literary Value (Artistic Value)

Folklore is the most vivid and lively part of the treasury of human literature and art. It is the artistic crystallization of the people's collective wisdom and creativity, and the concentrated expression of the people's aesthetic consciousness. At the same time on the writer's art

production also produces a multifaceted impact. 1, for the writer's artistic creation provides a wealth of materials; 2, for the writer of literature to create a form of beauty.

Third, practical value 1, primitive society folklore utilitarian

(1) coordination of action, reduce fatigue, improve labor efficiency; (2) now the labor life, teaching labor experience, inspire the enthusiasm for labor; (3) glorification of labor, expressing the people's strong desire to conquer the natural

hope. 2, class society folklore resistance

(1) reflecting the duality of labor festival, on the one hand, labor is a source of happiness, on the other hand, labor is a factor of pain, labor is painful, into the class society, the exploiting class plundered the fruits of labor

movement, to bring suffering to the working people's lives, therefore, folklore in the glorification of labor, but also curse labor, curse the exploiter works. Therefore, when folk literature glorifies labor, there are also works that curse labor and curse the exploiters. (2) Reflecting the wide range of life, a directly to

labor as the theme, but linked with other life; b to labor life as the theme, the expression of a variety of themes; c other themes, but closely linked to the labor life; d contains a certain degree of feudalism, but the

better life to wish. 3. Didactic (persuasive) in daily life.

Fourth, scientific value

Folklore is often a mixture of art and knowledge, a collection of natural and social knowledge accumulated by the working people over a long period of time, and it has a close connection with other disciplines. Such as ethnology, folklore,

religion, philosophy, linguistics, natural sciences and so on.

Functions:

(1) Cognitive role: 1, to help people recognize and understand the history of mankind; 2, to help people identify the different social forms of consciousness, marital status, habits and land types.

(2) Educational function: Folklore is the most convenient and popular oral textbook for self-education of the masses.

1. It helps the people to raise their consciousness, and most of them show the virtues of diligence, bravery, and simplicity of the people,

and also express the good ideals and aspirations of the people.

2. Lively folktales and legends are the good teaching materials for the education of the enlightenment.

(3) Aesthetic role: folklore gives the feeling of beauty through some inner things.

(4) Entertainment: folk literature is a tool for self-entertainment of the working people.