科学的共产主义的創始人,无产阶級革命的偉大領袖馬克思和恩格斯,不但是民歌的热烈的爱好者,而且也是极有修养的民歌鑑賞家。我們不論从他們本人的論文与信札中,或者从他們的同时代人的回忆中,都常常能看出这一点。然而,革命斗爭和理論工作占去了他們的許多时間,他们遺留下来的有关民歌的材料很少,也正因为如此,目前发現的他們抄录和引用的民歌、对民歌的 Marx and Engels, the founders of scientific communism and the great leaders of the proletarian revolution, are not only enthusiastic fans of folk songs, but also highly cultured folk song connoisseurs. We can often see this both in their own essays and letters, or from the memories of their contemporaries. However, the revolutionary struggles and theoretical work took up a lot of their time, and the material left behind by them was very few about folk songs. It is for this reason that the folk songs that they have now copied and quoted have been found,