Abstract:
Human society has passed through three ages, from wildness to barbarism, then from barbarism to
civilization. In each of those ages, there were different forms of marriage such as intermarriage, group
marriage, dual marriage, and finally, monogamy. From the important meaning and richness and
complexity of this issue in life, the oral writings were soon concerned and reflected it and therefore.
Marriage became one of the themes that frequently appeared in most genres of Vietnamese folklore,
in which it is fully and most clearly concentrated in the genre of fairy tales of many ethnic groups in
Vietnam. Fairy tales have recreated not only the movement, transformation and progress in human
marriage, but also the burning desire of workers for love, a free marriage, for justice, for good human
qualities. By surveying a collection of Vietnamese fairy tales, including those of ethnic minorities
reflecting the theme of marriage, analyzing, explaining, and comparing from an ethnographic
perspective, the article pointed out the imprints and characteristics of marriage forms reflected in the
fairy tale genre. |
