民间故事是最难以说透的艺术,其最大的特点是含糊。民间故事中经常出现的“替代”与“岔”就是体现这种含糊艺术的两个重要手段。先说替代。替代是因为实物不足或不便而产生的。现今许多事物、事像的由来,多来自替代。如馒头是如何产生的,是因为上供需要馒头,最初的馒头是供品而不是食品,用馒头上供,又是用人头上供的替代。《馒头的由来》中说,当年诸葛亮南征,七擒孟获渡泸水。泸水滔滔,神哭鬼嚎,因为战争频 Folk story is the most difficult to tell the art, its biggest characteristic is vague. The common occurrences of “substitutive” and “punctuated” in folk tales are two important means to embody this vague art. Let’s talk about alternatives. Substitution is due to lack of material or inconvenience generated. Many things today, things like the origin, mostly from the alternative. Such as the bread is how to produce, because the bread for the first time, the first bread is a product rather than food, with bread on the supply, but also with the human head for the alternative. “The origin of bread,” said Zhuge Liang during the Southern Leap, seven captured Mengshuushu Lushui. Lushui Blast, God cried ghost howl, because the frequency of war