Storytelling Folklore: Rational Analyses of Extraordinary Events

Only under certain specific conditions will some hidden laws of folklife become apparent, and then problems will be exposed and displayed in events. The folklore of events advocates a kind of folklore study based on specific events. A folk event is an extraordinary case in daily life, which is the result of gaming between individuals and appears to be a kind of extraordinary relationship when the balance between individuals is broken. Paying attention to folk events and extraordinary phenomena in daily life is an important method to find questions and seek academic breakthroughs. Apart from having a strong capability of discerning problems, a qualified folklorist needs to be equipped with two special folkloristic skills, including the ability to sense folklore and the ability to investigate a case like a detective. The process of academic study is a continuous circulation of capturing events, posing questions and solving problems. Theoretically, any extraordinary event (occasionality) can find its way to a rational analysis (inevitability). Folklore should not remain within the field of sociology. It should also play the parts of literature and history by adopting the storytelling method to analyze folk events. Storytelling is an academic tradition since folklore was founded as a discipline as well as a high academic state.