Traditional Literature

27th July 2010 (Tuesday)


Today we talked about Traditional literature. Today I know more about traditional literature. I learned that traditional literature is a genre which includes poems, songs, riddles, etc, that have been passed down orally from one generation to another generation. It is hard to know the source of the traditional literature, especially who the authors are. The forms of traditional literature can be categorized into three, i.e. religious/cultural literature, folklore and folktales. However some do overlap.
There are many traditional literary works that we might familiar with, or sometimes we don’t even know. These arts should not been forgotten, have to be treasured, as it is actually important to us. These traditional literary works reflect the history of literature that we are having today.