The Folk Culture and Cultural Identity in Grimm's Fairy Tales

Abstract

Grimm's Fairy covers almost the entire contents of the folklore motif, including animal stories, personal stories, monster stories, jokes and anecdotes. It is a rare model for the study on folk literature. From the perspective of cultural identity, the German folk culture characteristics shown in this legendary literary works were analyzed, with particular attention to the culture-shaped political significance and cultural value of the work. Keywords—Grimm's fairy tales; folk culture; cultural value; cultural I. INT RODUCTION Grimm's Fairy was originally entitled Child and Family Fairy Tales (Kinder- und Hausma rchen, KHM ). As a master of European folk literature, it emp loyed mysterious imagery, legendary plot to build a world beyond the reality of eternal life, with accumulat ion of rich cultural connotation, carrying mu ltifaceted cultural connotation including nation, history and many other. As the result of folk wisdom, it retains many of the original folk culture show component in between the lines, with a strong stigma of social development, wh ich makes this work enduring. When looking into the typical folk cultural symbols, it is in line with the long formed certain recognizing of the most significant thing for this the German national community live together, its core is the identity of the fundamental cultural value. No wonder Jacob Grimm once wrote, my work is dedicated to my homeland. For these works drew power only fro m the land of the Consciously or unconsciously, I felt that our country's guidance is the most correct. All we have achieved should first of all be attributed to our motherland. II. TYPICAL FOLK CULT URE SYMBOLS IN GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES