民俗是民间风俗习惯的简称。民俗事象是人类群体所传承和所拥有的文化现象。它涉及民众生活的方方面面,如物质、社会、岁时、人生礼仪、精神及口承语言民俗等等。任何阶级、阶层,无论其年岁及性别差异,时刻都处于民俗万象之中。区分民俗与非民俗的界限,一般认为民俗事象,首先必须是集体的,不是个人有意无意的创 Folk custom is short for folk custom. Folklore is a cultural phenomenon inherited and owned by human groups. It involves all aspects of people’s lives, such as material, social, age, life etiquette, spiritual and oral language and so on. Any class, class, regardless of age and gender differences, are always among the folk Vientiane. The distinction between folk and non-folk distinction is generally believed that the folk phenomenon, first of all must be collective, not personal intentionally or unintentionally