在长期的生产和生活中,土族人民创造了丰富多彩的民间文学,并不断吸收其他民族民间文学长处,逐渐形成了本民族的独特风格。就内容和体裁而言,大致可分为神话、传说、童话、寓言、民歌、叙事诗、歌谣、谚语等。由于过去土族只有语言而没有文字,民间文学以口头流传的形式代代相传,加以保存。土族民间故事涉及民族的自 In long-term production and daily life, the Tu people create rich and colorful folk literature, and continue to absorb the strengths of other folk literature, and gradually form their own unique style. In terms of content and genre, can be divided into myths, legends, fairy tales, allegorical, folk songs, narrative poems, songs, proverbs and so on. Due to the fact that the Tu people only used the language but no words in the past, the folk literature was passed on from one generation to the next and was preserved. Tu nationality folk tales relate to nationality