How to understand the indoctrination function and normative function of folk culture

The indoctrination function of folklore refers to the education and influence of folklore on the behavior of individuals, and the normative function of folklore refers to the constraints and control of folklore on the behavior of members of the society. Folklore culture is a social norm that exists universally in society and is hidden from view, and it is a special educational method that is the closest to everyone's feelings and behaviors. Folk culture has great control over society, regulating and standardizing power, its educational function should not be ignored, folk single responsible for the education of the national function, and even to some extent will exceed the role of orthodox culture, can make people produce a strong sense of cultural pride.

Social norms include law, discipline, morality, and folklore at four levels, of which the earliest constraints on the most extensive is the folklore law, originating from folklore in the "township rules and regulations" and other customary laws and regulations of the pre-Qin period, "the failure of etiquette into the penalty," that is, the meaning of this. In other words, folklore through its own unwritten rules attributes, the popular range of group members of the behavior and consciousness of the constraints, through a variety of social relations and behavior and consciousness of the norms, in order to maintain this folklore popular in the region of the people's interests of the group, it can be said that the folklore culture is like an invisible hand, quietly dominate and regulate people's behavior.