Genre characteristics of fairy tales

The characteristics of fairy tale genre: it has certain regionality and regionality, and different civilizations or nations have their own mythological meanings. In the world, there is also a myth that describes the same phenomenon with amazing similarity.

Myth, as a form of folk literature, is an imaginative story created by ancient people to reflect nature, the relationship between man and nature and social formation.

The emergence of myth is combined with primitive human beings' struggle against nature for their own survival.

The emergence of the myth of data inflation also depends on the social nature at that time. At that time, people had to rely on the collective to obtain means of subsistence and resist wild animals and enemies; The income from labor is limited and must be distributed equally. Under the primitive commune system, the main contradiction between man and nature has become the center of people's attention. Therefore, explaining and conquering nature has become the main content of myth.

At the same time, because people's interests are consistent, the brave and strong figures emerging in collective production are revered by all members and endowed with the magical ability to become gods or demigods. On them, the primitive people's desire to conquer nature was pinned.

Some myths show wars between tribes. This part of the myth mainly came into being in the later period of primitive commune system. At that time, the commune system tended to collapse, but the struggle between tribes for the possession of means of subsistence was still the cause of the whole people.

The victory of war and the achievements of leaders are regarded as symbols of collective strength and glory. Therefore, people spontaneously deify the war process and commanders through fantasy, making this part of the story an integral part of myth.

It can be seen that myth reflects primitive people's understanding of the objective world, it is a realistic ideological form, and it is also a superstructure produced on a certain economic basis. It is precisely because the myth reflects the objective world through the spontaneous and naive fantasy of human childhood that it presents a unique form.

Since the emergence of myth has its specific reality and ideological basis, it is decided that its prosperous period can only be human childhood. With the development of history, nature has been gradually dominated, people's understanding has improved, and stages have emerged, shifting the focus of attention.

At this time, the deification of nature and society is no longer a feature of human consciousness, and folk literature, as a mirror of working people's lives and thoughts, will inevitably change greatly in content and expression. In this case, the myth will die out sooner or later, while others will be transformed into other types of folk literature.

Such as legends and stories, due to the remnants of mythical thinking mode, there will be some superstitions about disasters, deformed fantasies and new ghosts and gods among the people, but superstitions and general fantasies are not equal to myths. Their appearance, on the other hand, proves that the flourishing age of myth is gone forever.

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