民俗学在世界和中国的历史超过百年或接近百年,但作为科学研究,它至今还不是一个很轻松的学科。20世纪以来,主要是在我国,很多人把它的产生和发展,与英国的工业革命、德国的浪漫主义流派、芬兰的故事学传统与俄国的普罗文学相联系,但还是不知道它怎样研究这门庞大的、人人都像空气一样从小熟悉和终身依赖的、用来识别特定文化和凝聚民 Folklore in the world and China have a history of more than a hundred years or nearly a hundred years, but as a scientific research, it is still not an easy discipline. Since the twentieth century, mainly in our country, many people have linked its emergence and development with the industrial revolution in Britain, the romantic schools in Germany, the tradition of tales in Finland and the Proverbs in Russia, but still do not know how it is studied This huge, everyone is as familiar and lifelong as the air, used to identify a particular culture and cohesion of people