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Folk literature
民间文学
Folk literature that the general public collective creation and oral literature, not a person created literary works. The main forms of folk literature are stories, myths, legends, folk jokes, proverbs, idioms, break language, opera, folk songs and so on. Folk literature has important value, such as preserving the wisdom of the ancestors, the birth of literati literature, heritage of national culture. ... 民间文学即普通大众集体创作并口头流传的文学，非某个人创作的文学作品。民间文学的主要形式有故事、神话、传说、民间笑话、谚语、俗语、歇后语、戏曲、民歌等。民间文学有重要价值，如保存先民智慧，孕育文人文学，传承民族文化等。...
Folk literature refers to the people's oral creation, verbal spread, and constantly revised and processed literature. Including myths, legends, stories, allegorical, folk songs, rumors, rap, riddles and so on. Orality, collectivity, variability, inheritance and other characteristics different from the writer's written literature. 民间文学 指群众口头创作、口头流传，并不断修改、加工的文学。包括神话、传说、故事、寓言、民歌、谣谚、说唱、谜语等。具有口头性、集体性、变异性、传承性等不同于作家书面文学的特征。
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «民间文学» OVER TIME
The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «民间文学» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «民间文学» appears in digitalised printed sources in Chinese between the year 1500 and the present day.
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10 CHINESE BOOKS RELATING TO «民间文学»
Discover the use of 民间文学 in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to 民间文学 and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Chinese literature.
