The main characteristics of folk tales

1. Time-honored, often accompanied by human growth and enduring.

2. oral transmission, folk tales are mostly transmitted orally.

3. The plot is exaggerated and full of fantasy, and most of them express people's good wishes.

4. Mostly in the form of symbols, the content often contains supernatural, whimsical components. Folktales, like all good works, start from life itself, but are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable.

Features

1, close to life

Folktales, a genre that arose later than myths and legends, is a genre that arose and has long existed after man became the master of the objective world. Although the content of the story has different degrees of fantasy components, but all focus on, based on real life, its theme, characters and the main plot are in line with the logic of life when the story spread. From myths and legends to transformation stories, animal stories, fables, life stories and jokes, their content and artistic techniques are less fantastical and more realistic. This is the main feature that distinguishes folktales from myths.

2, generalization

Generally refers to the time and place where the story takes place, the name of the main character of the story is often vague and uncertain. The narrative of the story focuses on the key plot of the account, not to do all the details of the description. The interest and attraction of the story also lies mainly in the vividness of the plot. There are floating life haunting clouds (story chapter). This is the main feature that distinguishes stories from legends. Legends always try their best to realize the plot to definite people, events and things, even though that plot is fictitious.

3. Typology

Folktales, as a kind of collective creation, have a significant tendency to typology in plot, theme and characters. The typology of theme means that many stories express the same theme, such as expressing the desire to make life richer or to win for the weak, praising the wit, satirizing the stupidity and foolishness, etc. The typology of characters means that many stories express the same theme. Typification of characters means that the characters of many stories belong to the same type of image, that is, the main features in character, behavior, etc. are **** the same, such as clever daughter-in-law type, dull son-in-law type, witty character type and so on. The same story in the process of dissemination will give rise to many similarities and differences in a variety of statements, the same theme will be manifested in a variety of different texts, through a variety of different texts in the same basic elements and stereotypes of the story framework is called "type". Genre analysis is an important method in story research, so much so that the study of story genres has become a sub-discipline known as story typology, and a large number of treatises have appeared in this regard. Of course, typology is not only a characteristic of folktales, but also of myths and legends, but the typology of the story is more prominent, and it can be said that the story is the most strongly typed narrative genre. Related to the typology is that the story of people, things, scenery, personalized description is relatively lack of narrative techniques are more sparse, but this point from another perspective is simple and simple, and the people's aesthetic interest in line with the shortcomings of the narrative sparse for the plot of the strong interest to make up for, so that the story has become a modern folk narrative genre of the most extensive influence.