Tình hình sưu tầm và diện mạo văn học dân gian Vĩnh Long

Abstract

This paper is a result of folklore fieldworks study in Vinh Long Province conducted by Faculty of Literature’s lecturers and students, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, in two times (2013 and 2014, 2 weeks for each). The number of collected raw material is 2.750, and the number of informants is 1.976. After revising, classifying and editing, texts of genres such as riddles, proverbs, wonder tales, legends, ghost tales, jokes, fables, and folk poetry (“ca dao” and “ve”) are retained. This paper focus on showing the characteristics of quantity and quality of works in each genres. Moreover, we put our proposition for in-time collecting and publishing projects for this valuable cultural material from all regions of Southern of Vietnam.