民俗是一个民族几千年来集体创造的生活结晶,是人类生活中普遍而特殊的社会存在,是一个民族集体文化意识的综合。民俗学是研究民间风俗、习惯即人民群众的生活和文化的传承现象,探究其本质及其发生、发展、变化、消亡规律的科学。英国民俗学会的创始人汤姆斯(W.J.Thomes)划定民 Folk custom is a crystallization of life collectively created by a nation for thousands of years, is a universal and special social existence in human life, and is a synthesis of a collective cultural awareness. Folklore is a science that studies folk customs and habits, that is, people’s life and inheritance of culture, and its nature, its occurrence, development, change and demise. W.J.Thomes, founder of the British Folklore Society, draws the line