校园民俗应该是随着学校教育形式的出现而出现的一种民俗现象。但是校园民俗作为一种科学研究的对象,却是近些年来才引起人们注意的。 长期以来,在人们的观念中,民俗学的研究对象一直被局限在农民或没有受过教育的下层社会。从十九世纪初期格林兄弟的《童话故事集》首次出版,开创了民俗学这一学科的先河以来,人们对民俗学中的“民”的认识经历了一个漫长的过程。早期的“民”指的是农民。学者们把农民从社会的其它阶层,包括上层社会,知识阶层,城市居民中孤立出来,作为特殊的研究对象。在当时,农民被认为是蒙昧和落后的代名词,与文明和进步相对立。安德鲁·兰(Andrew Lang)曾写到:“考古学作为一门学 Campus folklore should be a kind of folklore phenomenon appearing with the emergence of school education. However, as a kind of scientific research object, campus folklore has attracted people’s attention in recent years. For a long time, in the people’s concept, the object of study of folklore has been confined to peasants or uneducated lower classes. Since the publication of the “Brothers Fairy Tales” of the Brothers Grimm in the early nineteenth century and the creation of a precedent of folklore, people have come a long way in their understanding of “people” in folklore. Early “people” refers to peasants. Scholars have isolated peasants from other sectors of society, including the upper classes, intellectuals and urban residents, as special subjects of study. At the time, peasants were regarded as synonymous with ignorance and backwardness, as opposed to civilization and progress. Andrew Lang wrote: "Archeology as a science