The oral culture includes the main part of the national identity in every area or country. So it is necessary for every individual of a nation to retain this valuable heritage and tradition because no nation can continue its way for a long time without relying on the basis of its national culture. Indeed, the folklore of each region is the representative of the feelings, interests, needs, the intellectual development of the people living in that area, and it accounts for what people of an area have been proud of or loved. Studying the folklore gives identity to a nation or region and humanness to man, and leads him to the peak of perfection. In fact, each nation’s folklore is the reflection of the social and cultural life, the way of working and producing, the manner and attitudes, thoughts, feelings, religion, and ethics, and the beliefs in a society. In other words, since the folklore belongs to a nation, it is linked to the facts of the everyday life of that nation’s people. Therefore, the fundamental principles of the folklore is based on the people’s simple understanding of some concepts such as life, death, nature, dreams, and utopia, etc. this paper tries to study the folklore and the oral literature of the people in Hormozgan vey briefly. So, some proverbs, riddles, lullabies, motels, and tales belonging to Hormozgan’s people and what is called the oral culture will be introduced and studied. However, it should be noted that the concise study of each element of the oral literature needs more time and space which cannot be included in this brief paper.
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