Joke (Wanrong joke)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: joke (Wanrong joke)

Applicant: Wanrong County, Shanxi Province

Item No.: 571

Project No.: I-84

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Wanrong County, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Wanrong County joke Research Association

Introduction to joke (Wanrong joke)

Applicant: Wanrong County, Shanxi Province

Wanrong joke is one of the popular folk literature forms in Shanxi Province. Wanrong people interpret their understanding and love of life with humorous and humorous characters, and create Wanrong jokes that people like to talk about.

Since the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, many jokes have been created and spread among the people in Wanrong. The biggest characteristic of Wanrong's jokes is the word "earn". The protagonists in the jokes all have a "earn strength", which is shown by their love of arguing, partial reasoning or stubborn, stubborn and competitive. The techniques of expression, such as wittiness, admitting death reason, not admitting defeat, and being stubborn to the end, constitute the prominent features of Wanrong's jokes, such as "seven crazy people just know how to eat", "Dad, back", "door insurance is OK", "there's no rain ahead", "we're out of work", "throw the pot", "rich man asks Gao Cai" and so on. Wan Rong's jokes are funny and philosophical. They are a concentrated display of the wisdom of people's life. They not only greatly enrich people's cultural life, but also have important data value for the study of regional cultural psychology in Shanxi. In recent years, due to the death of old artists and the influence of modern media, Wanrong's jokes are on the verge of extinction, and need to be protected.