dân gian
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Adjective:
- Folk; of the people; popular: Relating to the traditional beliefs, customs, stories, and art of the ordinary people of a country or region, typically passed down through generations by word of mouth or practice, rather than through formal institutions.
- Among the populace; widespread among the masses: Existing or circulating within the general population.
Noun (contextual):
- The folk; the populace; the masses: Refers to the collective body of common people in a society, especially as the originators and bearers of traditional culture.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- Truyện cổ tích lưu truyền trong dân gian. (Folk tales are handed down among the people.)
- Nghệ thuật dân gian Việt Nam rất phong phú. (Vietnamese folk art is very rich.)
- Tin đồn lan truyền khắp dân gian. (The rumor spread throughout the populace.)
Noun (contextual):
- Câu chuyện đó bắt nguồn từ dân gian. (That story originates from the folk.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to form compound terms describing cultural products:
- "văn học dân gian": folk literature.
- "tri thức dân gian": folk knowledge.
- "y học dân gian": folk medicine.
Variants and Related Words
- Dân gian học (n): Folklore studies; the academic study of folk traditions.
- Tính dân gian (n): The folk character or quality of something.
Synonyms
- Folk (adj): Of the common people and their traditions.
- Popular (adj): Suited to or originating from the general public.
- Traditional (adj): Long-established practices passed down within a community.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Lưu truyền trong dân gian: To be handed down/circulated among the people.
- Những bài hát đó lưu truyền trong dân gian hàng trăm năm. (Those songs have been handed down among the people for hundreds of years.)
- Theo truyền thuyết dân gian: According to folk legend.
- Theo truyền thuyết dân gian, nơi đây có một vị thần bảo vệ. (According to folk legend, a protective deity resides here.)
- Broad masses (of the people)
- Tin đồn tryuền khắp dân gianThe rumour spread among the masses of the people
- Truyện cổ tích lưu truyền trong dân gianA legend handed down from generation to generation among the broad masses of the people, a folk tale
- Popular, folk
- Thơ ca dân gianPopular poetry, folk poetry
- Nghệ thuật dân gianFolk art