Title: Study on Classification and Characteristics of Gansu-Tibetan Long Narrative Folk Poems
Abstract: The Tibetan people living in the snow-covered Tibetan Plateau are born to have poetic talents, which have empowered them to create many valuable long narrative folk poems.Most of the poems are widespread in Amdo Tibetan Region which is a central inhabited region for Tibetan people in Gansu and Tibet province.Till now, those twisted-plot, vividly depicted and highly region characterized ballads are still loved and sung by Tibetan people living in Amdo.This article uses a combined research method of filed investigation and text analysis to study the classification and characteristics of Gansu-Tibetan long narrative folk poems.