The oral folk literature (minjian wenxue) of the Han Chinese (hereafter simply: Chinese) can be subdivided into non-professional (following R. Jacobson's and P. Bogatyrev's terminology: active-collective) and professional (passive-collective) oral folk literary creations. Among the non-professional works are myths (shenhua), folk songs (min'ge), fairytales/folktales (minjian gushi), sagas/legends (chuanshuo), anecdotes/jok…