口头文学是民间文学最原始和最主要的流传方式,本文以都镇湾故事的民间故事传承保护为例,论述了当下迫切需要关注的口头文学的非物质文化遗产传承与保护问题。对故事传承人的关怀与保护,是民间故事得以传承的关键所在。而保护传承人不仅要在物质生活上给予其必要的保障,更重要的是要记录整理他们口述的故事内容并对其进行理论研究。 Verbal literature is the most primitive and the most important form of folklore. The article takes the inheritance and protection of folk tales in Duzhenwan story as an example to discuss the inheritance and protection of the intangible literature which is urgently needed attention. The concern and protection of the successors of the story is the key to the inheritance of folk tales. The protection of the heirs not only in the material life to give the necessary protection, more important is to record the contents of their oral narrative and its theoretical research.