Verbal Literature Poetics On Tujia Minority

Verbal literature poetics is the deductions and induction on oral tradition. The object for it is kinds of folk literatures, and some related expressing and saying in these folk literatures about oral tradition and arts. The common and daily language usually performs in culture activities with typical form, and particularly in the folk custom life. The basic of paper is the collection and analysis of related document literatures and field assignment. The modern phototape and videotape was used during the field work. For the first time, the author attempts to collect, identify and classify the Tujia Minority folk literatures on its tradition arts. And to place these folk songs back to the certain contexts of culture, and regard them as a kind of active national tradition to analyze the generation, the relationship with life, analyze of aspects in the verbal performance.According to the two features of Tujia Minority, Chapter one combines the verbal literature of Tujia Minority from history and contents, and picks up the folktale, legend, folk song, proverb and common saying. Chapter two on the basic of clearly reading these texts, to handle and think materials of field work. All of research standpoints in chapter three are according to the two form chapter, by the viewpoints and theory of literature and art, folklore and the anthology of art school. The key focus on chapter three are origin, development, function, performance, singer, verbal text and receive. The last chapter is to make the conclusion.