A Study Of The Taboo Themes In Lin Lan's Folk Fairy Tales

Taboo is a common theme in fairy tales.Its origins can be traced back to the forms of folk tales which is closely related to fairy tales.It associated the development between both fairy tales and folk tales,and becomes the constraint of groups with people deeply in the daily life of stories.Folk fairy tales also intermediates the link of the transformation of folk tales to modern fairy tales having both traditional and modern values.Study the taboos in folk fairy tales and use folklore to examine the significance of taboos in traditional culture,showing that the primitive culture is based on stories,including the evolution in the process of oral communication.The choice of text embodies the relationship between the"individual" who tells the story and the "collective" who accept the story.Thus the taboo theme in folk fairy tales reflects the collective psychology of the people.Through the dialectical taboos on the text diachronic card,helping us to find this collective psychology.Lin Lan's fairy tale anthology in the early 30s of last century,is widely rooted in Chinese folk tales,it is an earlier folk fairy tale set with Chinese folk characteristics and writers' autonomy.Studying the taboo theme in Lin Lan's fairy tales can be divided into six major categories based on different plot uniting and theme implications.Among them,the taboo of "Swan Virgin" "Forbidden Room" "Subsidence Type" and "Treasure Discovering" have undergone profound text accumulation during the period of folk tales,and the cultural significance behind them is very rich.Lin Lan's fairy tales on the theme of these sorts wrote basically following the inherent structure of folk stories in the model,but"subsidence-type" taboo composite with "Cloud Embroidery Shoe-Shaped" story,making folk fairy tales to play its structural charm.To reveal the potential of modernity in the traditional narrative,taboo is the core plot of the story in this type of story.The release of taboos,incarceration and contraband,rewards and punishment are basically corresponded to the initial situation of the story,orgasms and end.However,"Test-Type" taboo in Lin Lan's folk fairy tales has the largest quantities,and its value is the most modem.Contrary to the oracles taboo,taboo themes are still valid in the "Test-Type" story as an initial situation,but they no longer have the sacredness of the preceding themes.Through tests,the protagonist's individual values are a great show,for how to develop the fairy tale modernity in the traditional course of enlightenment.The significance of culture exists not only behind the taboo subject,but also revealed to the reader through the structure of the text.To explore the structure of taboos and find that it generally has two modes of "Taboo-Execution" and "Taboo-Violation".In Lin Lan's folk fairy tales,most of the stories accomplish the test by performing taboos,getting the treasure and gaining happiness,while violating the taboo will lead to serious punishment,the loss of the treasures,and the loss of the fantasy of magic.In a few stories,violating taboos also allows the protagonist to pass the test and achieve growth.In this part of the story,the hero's power as an independent individual is reflected.