粉碎“四人帮”后,科学的春天来了,文艺的春天也来了。在全国科学大会上,华国锋同志发出了要提高整个中华民族的科学文化水平的伟大号召,并重申了毛泽东同志提出的包括文学艺术在内向外国学习的口号。为了促进我国社会主义文艺创作和社会主义新文化的繁荣发展,学习外国民间文学,研究外国民间文学,以便从中吸取营养,这是不可忽视的一个方面。要学习外国民间文学,研究外国民间文学,就得对外国民间文学在世界文学史上的地位、作用与影响有所认识。在远古还没有产生阶级之前,人类在集体劳动中创造了语言,也创造了口传的文 After the smashing of the “gang of four,” the spring of science has come and the spring of literature and art has come. At the National Science Conference, Comrade Hua Kuo-feng issued a great call to raise the scientific and cultural level of the entire Chinese nation, and reiterated the slogan put forward by Comrade Mao Zedong, including the study of literature and art, to foreign countries. In order to promote the prosperity and development of our socialist literature and art and the new socialist culture, it is an indispensable aspect to study foreign folk literature and study foreign folk literature in order to learn from it. To study foreign folk literature and study foreign folk literature, we must understand the status, role and influence of foreign folk literature in the history of world literature. Before the ancient class was created, mankind created the language in collective labor and created an oral passage