The Study Of Folk Literature Of Geng Village And Its Development

Folk literature is just like bright jewels dropped on the yellow earth. They are stained with farmers’ bloody sweat, accumulated with plain and brilliant spirit, and deeply buried in the rich soil. These jewels are nourished by people’s thoughts and in turn the brilliance given by them also fosters every fertile land and everybody’s heart.As it is, Geng village’s folk literature is the brightest one of those jewels. Since discovered in 1987, it has been known as a miracle in the world literature history. After more than 600 years, it becomes mellow, white and spotless, attracting wide attention from well-known scholars countrywide even worldwide. For many years, scholars from all over the world came to visit Geng village. They wrote books about it through studying and summarizing, wishing to capture every splendor of this jewel. As a result, Geng village’s folk literature has made great achievements in the academic field.By the author visiting Geng village’s story tellers and studying the historical development process of its folk literature, this article briefly summarizes the exploration and systematization process of Geng village’s folk literature, and illustrates the crisis and opportunity respectively in its development. This article is intended to provide corresponding suggestions as for future development of Geng village’s folk literature, based on exploring its potential sufficiently.This article is divided into five parts.Part I briefly introduces Geng village’s history and the exploration and existence of folk literature.Part II comprehensively analyzes the characteristics of Geng village’s folk literature.Part III illustrates the development process of Geng village’s folkliterature from perspective of crisis and opportunity, based on folk literature development background since the founding of our nation.Part IV aims to seek useful experience from domestic and foreign successful cases for the development of Geng village’s folk literature.The conclusion part proposes potential problems and feasible solutions by analyzing the development process of Geng village’s folk literature.