The widest layer of folk culture isfolklore. His genres are very diverse and specific. These works were invented by representatives of the people and passed on to each other verbally. There were singers and storytellers, and everyone could become a co-creator.
What are the features of folklore works?
A feature of oral folk art(folklore) is its ancient origin, because such works were created at a time when there was no written language. Often a lot of people participated in the creation of a single work, each of them added something of their own when retelling. This is another feature - variability, because even one narrator or singer could not repeat the works many times without changes.
Every person knows what is the oral folkcreation. His genres are almost all preserved to this day. Each of them reflects the thoughts and aspirations of the people, their attitude to the events taking place. A great place in the oral folklore is ritual folklore. Although this layer of folk culture is almost unknown now.
What genres do folklore share?
- Fairy tales are the most common folkloreworks. Long since the children grew on Russian fairy tales. This has great educational significance. Folk tales are permeated with the spirit of patriotism, heroism and faith in the victory of good over evil.
- A great place in oral folk arttakes up the epic. It reflects the rich historical experience of the people in the struggle against conquerors and oppressors. Together, many narrators gradually formed a positive image of the hero - a defender and a hero who loves his homeland. The epic works also reflect the traditions of the people and their customs. Tradition is another feature that oral folklore has. Genres of the epic are epics, legends, historical songs and legends.
- But the most common are now small genresoral folk art - jokes, proverbs, sayings, tongue twisters, poteshki and riddles. They are very diverse and constantly updated. Even in the modern era, despite the widespread use of written language, new sayings are being created, riddles and tongue twisters are being invented.
How is folklore used to raise children?
What genres of oral folk art have long beenused by parents in raising a child? In addition to fairy tales and bylins, babies, jokes and songs were accompanied from the birth of the kids. They were used not only to calm and attract the attention of the child. These works are the best way of early development of children's thinking.
Till now all mums sing to children folklullabies, most of them use nursery rhymes and sayings when dressing, bathing and playing the first babies. Rituals, riddles and tongue twisters are very important for the development of the child's thinking. Teens, sayings and ditties are common in the children's environment.
At present, many young people do not know,what is oral folk art. His genres, even the most common, began to be forgotten. And the task of parents, educators and teachers is to instil in children a love of folklore as an integral part of folk culture.
