What does folklore include?

Folklore, also known as folk culture, refers to a relatively stable cultural event gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation by a nation or a social group in long-term production practice and social life, which can be simply summarized as popular customs and habits.

Folk customs are divided into three categories: spiritual field, behavioral field and language field.

1. Material life: (1) economic material (such as food, clothing, housing, transportation), (2) way of life (such as rural life, urban life, etc. (3) profits and wealth (such as labor production, electrical appliances, real estate);

Spiritual life: (1) dialect, (2) folk knowledge and application, (3) folk wisdom, (4) art, (5) mystery (such as folk magic and folk religion);

Social life: (1) family, (2) societies, (3) special groups (such as economic groups, political groups, sports groups, religious groups, etc. ), a secret organization (a team unknown to the government).

The principle of dividing the scope and category of folklore is always linked with the definition of folklore. Because folk customs are defined as a patterned life culture within a group, it is logically divided according to the life form to which folk customs belong, so we get three categories and eight subcategories of folk customs:

1. Folk customs of material life

(1) Production folklore (primary production of agricultural, fishery, mining, hunting, breeding and other material materials)

(2) Industrial and commercial folklore (handicraft, service, commercial and other materials processing services)

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

2. Folk customs of social life

(1) Folklore of social organizations (family, village, community and other organizations)

(2) Festival folk customs at the age of (time frame represented by festivals and activities)

(3) Life customs (birth, birthday, adulthood, marriage, funeral and other aspects of life)

3. Folk customs of spiritual life

(1) Entertainment folklore (games, competitions, social fires, etc.)

(2) Folklore (folk spiritual world represented by worship of gods, legends, stories and proverbs).