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According to the content, what types of folk customs are there?

? In Folk Customs of China, Wu Bingan divides folk customs into four categories: economic folk customs, social folk customs, belief folk customs and entertainment folk customs. Tao's Introduction to Folklore is divided into four categories: material folklore, social folklore, oral language folklore and spiritual folklore. ?

1. Folk customs of material life (1) Production folk customs (primary production of agricultural, fishery, mining, hunting, breeding and other material materials) (2)*** Commercial folk customs (processing services of handicraft industry, service industry, commerce and other material materials) (3) Living folk customs (consumption of material materials such as food, clothing, housing and transportation).

Second, social life folklore (1) social organization folklore (family, village, community, community and other organizations) (2) festival folklore (time frame represented by festivals and activities) (2) life customs (life processes such as birth, birthday, adulthood, marriage and funeral).

Third, spiritual life folklore (1) entertainment folklore (games, competitions, social fires and other entertainment aspects) (2) folk customs (folk spiritual world represented by gods worship, legends, stories, proverbs, etc. The classification methods of contemporary local chronicles are both outline and parallel. The former is like Zhejiang Folklore Annals compiled by Zhejiang Folklore Society.

The principle of dividing the scope and category of folklore is always linked with the definition of folklore. Since folk custom is defined as a patterned life culture within a group, the logical division is based on the life form to which folk custom belongs.

From this, it is concluded that there are three categories and eight subcategories of folk customs:

Folk customs of material life: folk customs of production (primary production of material materials such as agriculture, fishery, mining, hunting and breeding); * * * Commercial folklore (in terms of processing services for materials such as handicrafts, services and commerce); Folk customs of life (in terms of material consumption such as food, clothing, housing and transportation). Folk customs of social life: the folk customs of social organizations (such as families, villages, communities and societies); Festival folklore at the age of 20 (time frame represented by festivals and activities); Life customs (birth, birthday, adulthood, marriage, funeral and other aspects of life). Folk customs of spiritual life: entertainment folk customs (games, competitions, social fires and other entertainment aspects); Folklore (a folk spiritual world represented by worship of gods, legends, stories and proverbs, etc.). )