民间文学,有时也被称作民俗学。实际上,民间文学主要是没有文字的人们的文化传统,例如口传的知识和信仰。并且可以讲民间文学都是通过口头表达的方式来传播的。民间文学也象书面文学那样包含着有散文和诗体叙述故事、诗和歌谣、神话、戏剧、宗教仪式、谚语、谜语,等等。不论是过去还是现在,几乎所有巳知的民族都有着民间文学的创作。 Folklore, sometimes called folklore. In fact, folklore is largely cultural traditions of people without words, such as oral knowledge and belief. And it can be said that folklore is spread through verbal means. Folk literature also contains prose and poetic narrative stories, poems and ballads, myths, plays, religious rituals, proverbs, riddles, and more, just like written literature. Almost all known nations, no matter in the past or the present, have their own creations of folk literature.