《还乡》是哈代“威塞克斯”小说中艺术最为完美的作品,具有极其鲜明而浓郁的民俗特色。其中的民俗因素主要包括节日习俗、神话传说以及民歌歌谣。这些因素不仅丰富了作品的内容,推动了故事情节的发展,还起到了渲染作品某种特定的氛围、润色和塑造人物形象、象征和隐喻作者主观意图的作用,其在作品中有着举足轻重的地位,不可取代。 Returning Hometown is the most artistic piece of art in Hardy ’s Wessex ’ s novels with extremely distinctive and rich folk characteristics. The folk factors include festival customs, myths and legends and ballads. These factors not only enriched the content of the works, promoted the development of the story, but also played the role of rendering a specific atmosphere of the works, polishing and shaping the subjective intention of the characters, symbols and metaphors, which played a decisive role in the works ,Irreplaceable.