Category Study In The Edition Of Jokes

?Edition of jokes?is a popular ancient jokes book, it has been published multiple times. Most studies are focused on the thought and expression.They are very microscopic and meticulous research. But it is rare to explore the methods and characteristics from their classification.Therefore the classification of several stories in this article is in accordance with the typical type of index approach on the ?Edition of jokes?. This article try to clarify how folktale types included the joke inside ?Edition of jokes?.Then we can understand more about Chinese ancient joke, as the representative of?Edition of jokes?.This paper is divided into four parts, the first part is the literature review. Next,the paper will introduction the development of joke books and its research.Then it will further introduce method of of studying folktale types and the status. The second part introduces the status classification about ? Edition of jokes ?.It then find the reason of their classification and further explore classification reflected characteristics. The third part is talking about the involving classification works,such as: German scholar Wolfram Eberhard ?Chinese Folk Tales?, Chinese-American scholar Naitong Ding ?Chinese folk tale type index?and Lianxiu Qi? Ancient Chinese folktale type research?. They use different classifications, from different angles to study the type of story. This three works are all involved?Edition of jokes?, so you can compare the three methods category.The fourth part is in a brief analysis of word games. The jokes in the book seems not funny now, even not like jokes,which are now far away from present. They occupy a large part of the ?Edition of jokes? content.They are important aspects of literary jokes. So it had to be listed separately to elaborate in this paper.