Research On Xiangxi Clever Girl Story

In the colorful folk tales, there is a kind of traditional folk story which aims at depicting the heroine’s extraordinary intelligence in which many difficulties can be solved by them successfully. Therefore, we define this story as "Clever Girl Story" Clever Girl Story is widespread in Xiangxi area, the object of this study is deriving from the Chinese Folk Story Collection of Xiangxi Volume in which it contains over fifty stories relevant to Clever Girl Story.The aim of this article is to make a literature review about the style of Clever Girl Story at first. Then, depending on the explicit contents of the stories, this paper tries to make an alternative classification of this kind of story. As for type, it can be divided into three types in fourteen styles. For the types, it contains Good doing, Good talking and Good understanding; For the styles, it’s oriented in Bear Grandma, select son-in-law, human effort, punish the wicked, filial piety, feathered-clothes, ask difficult question, perfect answer, taboo, my stuff more valuable, help brother do homework, understand metaphor, understand Painting and understand iou.Later, this paper takes the two stories named Ferry on the Same Boat and Decorated-silver Girl as examples, and displays them to the readers. Then, so as to find out the language features of Xiangxi Clever Girl Story, the paper continues its research from four aspects of local dialect, Miao language and Tujia language.Finally, this paper pays attention to the relationship between Clever Girl Story and Xiangxi culture. Suppose that Xiangxi Clever Girl Story is connected with local Witchcraft Culture, Siyanbaju and Folk song tradition.