| As one of the oldest literary style, the fairy tales has gone through a long processof evolution. Fairy tales germinated in the ancient myth, people have chosen some ofthem, these chosen stories were gradually formed wonderful folk tales, which in turngave birth to the creation of fairy tales. The progressive trend of the world of providesan important condition for children literature movement in the May Fourth Movement,but people should see the development and prosperity of the Chinese fairy tales werealso benefit from the deep tradition of China-the folk literature. In "Seventeen Years"period, China rose a trend of folk tales re-creation, and a lot of good works came out.The thesis is divided into five parts. The first part analyze the concept of the"fairy tale", demonstrate from etymology that "fairy tale" is a sign of change of a folktale to fairy tale, and define the scope of " folk tale" and "fairy tale".The second part is the analysis of the fairy tales during China’s "SeventeenYears".The fairy tales in "Seventeen Years" is fruitful, they formed the first "goldenage" after the founding of China, and the unique historical conditions created the"Seventeen Years" fairy tales’ distinctive characteristics.The third part is the analysis of the fairy tales how to use the prototype in folktales and how to make the material re-creation. There are some fairy tales can findcomplete plot in the folk tales, can be added directly or adapted, such as RuanZhangjing’s golden conch is based on the girl, relatively speaking, choosing materialis like picking a seed, a concept from the folk tales for creation, such as "treasure".Part four explains the fairy tales how to imitate creative skills of folk tales,including four aspects: repetition, contrast, provenance and fuzzy.The fifth section explores how does the deep structure of folk tales exist in fairytales. Because fairy tales mixed with the writers’ personal creative styles and skills,the stories’ structure will be more subtle or there are some changes. From the whole story, the fairy tales’"function" order is consistent with the sequence of Prop’s theory.In "Seventeen Years" fairy tale, folk tales’ shadow is everywhere, but it must berealized that the fairy tales were mixed with the writers’ personal artisticcharacteristics, so they are not the same as folk tales. With the ever-changing humancivilization, folk tales has gradually lost the cultural environment of survival as oralcommunication, but they did not lose the unique charm, they hidden in fairy tales andas new aesthetic values to be presented. |