采访、记录民间故事、传说,是民间文学工作的一个重要方面,对于民间文学研究者来说,它还是需要极严肃对待的事情。全国解放以后,到文化大革命前的十多年间,我国民间文学工作,在进行中尽管遇到过这样那样的制约或干扰,但总的说来,是卓有成绩的。首先,我们在搜集上,特别注意到以前比较忽略的民间散文作品(如关于封建时期及近代的阶级斗争、革命军队、革命领袖等的传说故事)。其次,我们编纂和出版了那么多的作品集子,其中有的还是各民族人民的艺术瑰宝(如长篇史诗、许多重要的原始神话)。它被译成外国文,流传世 Interviews with and recording of folk tales and legends are an important aspect of folk literature. For the researchers of folk literature, it is something that needs to be taken very seriously. After the liberation of China and the ten years prior to the Cultural Revolution, the work of our country’s folk literature, despite such constraints or disruptions in progress, was fruitful on the whole. First of all, we collected the special attention paid to folk prose works that were overlooked before (such as the legends about the class struggle in the feudal period and in the modern times, the revolutionary army and the revolutionary leaders). Second, we have compiled and published so many works of art, some of which are still artistic treasures (such as long epics and many important original myths) of people of all nationalities. It was translated into foreign language, handed down