Chinese Girl Type Story Of Snail

Heterogeneous marriage is a popular type of folk tales. The kind of snail girl story is one of them. It refers to the aquatic animals (such as fish, mussels and snails),usually snails changing to a lady and then marries to a man. This story is named Snail Girl in the Index of Chinese Folk Tales Kinds writhed by Ding Naitong who is an American Chinese scholar. This book records 32 legend stories. Basing on the documents,This paper study the changing ways of Chinese snail girl story from the history view, discuss the culture contain by analyzing the story structure and also comment on the realistic significance.This paper includes introduction, body and appendix. The introduction mainly explains the reason of why choosing this theme, the innovating points in this paper, the research methods and documents resource. The body part contains three chapters. In the first one,the writer summarizes the snail girl story and reviews the academic history. The story mainly covers the coastal provinces, especially popular in Han, Dai, Miao and other ethnic minorities. The study before mainly focus on the story's evolvement, culture content and the snail girl's character. Held in Shanghai in 1998,sia Society of Folk Narrative Literature International Conference: Asia Snail Girl Story Study is a progress on this story. In the second chapter, the writer analyzes the form evolvement of the story from the history view. By the analysis, the writer finds out that the story has from a story of the fairy lady helping a man to a family relations story. The snail changing to a lady, cooking for husband and the peeping of the husband are the forever themes which are the obvious characters of the story. Struggling with the wick who broke the family, solving the problems by the wicks and the reason of the snail girl's going are changing with the time. The changes of the story relate with the people's taste requires, time changes and district folk cultures. In the third chapter, the writer analyzes the story structure form from the modern view. The write analyzes two endings of the story. The happy ending reflects people's optimism. The tragic ending results by the snail girl's poor social position and the man's betrayed. The going of the snail girl expresses the struggle to the no respecting and doubting female. It reflects the wish that female want to realize the equal of sex. Now, in the society, divorce has became a social fact. Lots of the divorce cases are suggested by the women. And this is familiar with the going of snail girl. Obviously, snail girl story has an important realistic significance.