Are folk stories the same as fairy tales?

Folk stories are different from fairy tales, but they all belong to folk literature.

Folk stories:

Folk stories are one of the important categories of folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk stories are oral literary works in the form of fictional prose created and disseminated by working people. They are the general names of all folk prose works, and some places are called lies, old sayings, ancient classics and so on.

Myth story:

Fairy tales are a kind of folk literature. The collective oral creation of the ancients. Including the story of ghosts and gods and the deified the legend of heroes, it shows the ancient people's resistance to natural forces and their pursuit of ideals. It is a spiritual sustenance, a yearning of human beings and a manifestation of religion, which has a far-reaching influence on later literature and art.

Extended data:

Since the emergence of myth has its specific reality and ideological basis, it is decided that its prosperous period can only be human childhood. With the development of history, nature has been gradually dominated, people's understanding has improved, and stages have emerged, shifting the focus of attention.

At this time, the deification of nature and society is no longer a feature of human consciousness, and folk literature, as a mirror of working people's lives and thoughts, will inevitably change greatly in content and expression.

In this case, myths will die out sooner or later because of the remnants of mythical thinking mode, while others will be transformed into other kinds of folk literature, such as legends and stories.

There will also be some superstitions about disasters, deformed fantasies and new ghosts and gods among the people, but superstitions and general fantasies are not equal to myths. Their appearance, on the other hand, proves that the flourishing age of myth is gone forever.

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