On The Type And Origin Of The Inner Mongolian Cleverest Housewife Tale

As a part of the oral literature, Mongolian folklore is every important toMongolian literature and culture history. The subject of this paper is the Mongoliancleverest housewife tales that goes around all Inner Mongolia. The paper has analyzedthe Mongolian cleverest housewife tale and its type, and explained the tale's culturalmeaning by the cultural anthropology and the typology, then searched the cultural andhistorical origin of the tale.There are five parts in the thesis. There are preface, text, epilogue, referencebook, appendixes.In the preface, the paper has introduced the reason for studying this subject,the studying goal, studying methods and the general situation of studying the cleveresthousewife tale, and has summarized the standard of classifying the Mongoliancleverest housewife tale.In the chapter one, the paper reviewed the Mongolian cleverest housewifetale's distribution and its type distribution in Inner Mongolian. 63% of cleveresthousewife tale and 60% of cleverest housewife tale's type are in Xiligol, Ordos andAlasha. And the percentage in other places of Inner Mongolia is very small. The paperhas explained this unbalanced phenomenon by analyzing the relationship between thecleverest housewife tale and the Legend of Mergentumen.In chapter two, the paper has probed into the cleverest housewife tale'scultural meaning, and contrastively discussed the cleverest housewife in the tale andin the real life.In chapter three, the paper has analyzed the cleverest housewife tale's figuresand researched historical and cultural course of tale. The paper analyzed the opinionfemale in the cleverest housewife tales, the opinion is converse to Confucian opinionabout too.In appendix, there is a form of cleverest house wife tale's type and the index ofthe Mongolian cleverest housewife tale's variant text.