Enshi City Folklore Research

As an important part of folk literature,legends are treasures belonging to the common people.Through legends,people's history and culture and national cultural spirit can be seen.The legend of the old town of Enshi is a shining pearl in the folk literature of wuling mountain area.As a legend system,the legend of the old town of Enshi has a huge content and relatively complete structure,which is an important tool to explore the social culture and humanistic culture of the old town of Enshi.By carefully sorting out the content of the legends of the old town of Enshi and further arranging the structural framework,the author tries to interpret and construct the legends of the old town of Enshi in a deeper way so as to make them burst out new vitality to meet the needs of modern society.This paper is divided into six sections to analyze the legend of the old city of Enshi from various aspects.The first part is the introduction,which mainly introduces Enshi old town,a famous historical and cultural city at the provincial level.At the same time,it discusses the achievements and shortcomings of the research object of Enshi old town folklore,and points out the methods,innovations and significance of the research.The second part mainly deals with the origin,development and spread of folk tales in the old town of Enshi.Enshi city folk tale is the old town of the people in the face of objective things,based on historical facts,give full play to their creativity and imagination and activated,people will believe will hear Ken injected a steady stream of power to the old legend,in the process of the development of the real and imaginary alternating,Enshi city legend slowly grow into a tree with cultural wisdom of the great trees,and through verbal and written form of narrative way and the object in your thought in the life of people.The third part is a classified description of Enshi city folk tales,Enshi city folklore structure complete,rich in content,mainly can be divided into the Mongolian historical legends,historical events,legends,legend figure legends and customs from the four categories of 13 sub-classes,and classify subdivided for analysis of Enshi city provides more solid literature foundation of folklore.The fourth part mainly discusses the cultural connotation of the folk tales in the old town of Enshi,and probes into the deep cultural meaning behind the folk tales in the old town of Enshi from the perspectives of thinking mode,spiritual belief and aesthetic taste.Fifth part details the social and cultural function of the old folklore,Enshi city is on the social life of the old folklore imaginative interpretation,including the interpretation of the environment,customs,and events,is legendary memory of the old history,also is the story of the old city culture expression,can also in the process of Enshi city public cultural spirit remodeling plays an indispensable role.The last part aims at the protection,inheritance and development of the folk tales in the old town of Enshi.Under the background of the protection of the intangible cultural heritage,the author thinks about the ways to protect and inherit the folk tales in the old town of Enshi and makes contributions to the spread and development of the folk tales in the old town of Enshi.