| As a well-known “Story Village”,Zouma Town is a typical one,its rise or fall is closely related to the development of the era and its own geographical environment.The Chengyu Ancient Road has a great influence on Zouma Town,people are always on the move,the communication among they makes it become a distributing centre for folk literature.Zouma Town is steeped in a huge amount of folk stories,with various types and a large group of narrators.Owing to its historical and artistic value,and its unique representativeness,it was inscribed into the “List of the First Batch of Representative Projects of National Intangible Cultural Heritage” in 2006.The folk stories of Zouma Town were based on particular environment in particular period of time,it rise or fall depends on the complicated social background throughout history.With the development of society,Chengyu Ancient Road has a great impact on Zouma Town and its folk stories.As the Chengdu-Chongqing Highway,Chengdu-Chongqing Railway,and Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway were successively completed and opened to traffic,the old post roads became oblivious.Zouma Town is left without anyone to care for it,it’s not the distributing center any longer,but every coin has two sides,on the other hand,the closed geographical environment contributes to the preservation of the whole folk stories.The author takes the folk tales of Zouma Town as a case study,from a diachronic perspective,examines the changes in the folk tales of Zouma Town through the eras,puts them in the environment of their emergence and survival,analyzes the reasons for their rise,prosperity,and decline,and explores the folk tales of Zouma Town.Analyzing the inheritance and changes of the inheritance routes,inheritance groups,and the social functions of the folk tales in Zouma Town.Through fieldwork,we interviewed the group of inheritors of folk tales in Zouma Town and sorted out the inheritance context,to understand the current situation of the inheritance of folk tales in Zouma Town. |
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