What are the types of folk customs?

Classification of folk customs in China:

1. Folk customs of material life

(1) Production folklore: the primary production of materials such as agriculture, fishery, mining, hunting and breeding;

(2) Industrial and commercial folklore: processing services for handicraft industry, service industry, commerce and other material materials;

(3) Folk customs of life: material consumption such as food, clothing, housing and transportation;

2. Folk customs of social life

(1) Folklore of social organizations: families, villages, communities, societies and other organizations;

(2) Festival folklore at the age of 20: the time frame represented by festivals and activities;

(3) Life customs: all aspects of life such as birth, birthday, adulthood, marriage and funeral;

3. Folk customs of spiritual life

(1) Entertainment folklore: games, competitions, social fires and other entertainment aspects;

(2) Folk concept: the folk spiritual world represented by the worship of gods, legends, stories and proverbs.

Folklore refers to a stable cultural event that a nation or a social group has gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation in the long-term production practice and social life, and can be simply summarized as popular customs and habits.

Extended data:

Classification of exotic folk customs:

In the Handbook of Folklore, Ms. C.S.Burne of Britain roughly divides folklore into three categories: spiritual field, behavioral field and language field. Sandiff of France put forward another dichotomy in Introduction to Folklore:

1, material life:

(1) Affordable materials (such as clothing, food, shelter and transportation);

(2) survival methods (such as rural life and urban life, etc.). );

(3) Profit and wealth (such as labor production, electrical appliances, real estate);

2. Spiritual life:

(1) dialect;

(2) Folk knowledge and its application;

(3) folk wisdom;

(4) art;

(5) Mystery (such as folk witchcraft and folk religion);

3. Social life:

(1) family;

(2) Association;

(3) Special groups (such as economic groups, political groups, sports groups, religious groups, etc. ) and secret organizations (groups unknown to the government).

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