UŞAQ FOLKLORU və ONUN JANR XÜSUSİYYƏTLƏRİ
CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE AND ITS GENRE FEATURES

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to children's folklore, which is an important part of folk literature. It is emphasized here that folk literature, filtered through the centuries-olf poetic filter of our people and survived to this day, shaping the taste of those who listen to it, also guards the education and upbringing of the growing younger generation. After all, there have not always been schools and educational centers like today. Therefore, adults have been engaged in upbringing their children in every field, and in order to educate their children more faithfully, they have created small-scale and easy-to-understand works, allegorical tales, legends, riddles, and lyrical examples according to their age level. Such works create conditions for the formation of the way of thinking of young children as well as their habits of finding answers to questions that arise in the attempt of comprehension of the world. The article emphasizes that children's folklore is divided into two parts in terms of the formation of genres; genres formed by adults for children and genres formed by children themselves. The article provides detailed information based on examples of appropriate genres. These examples, which include children's folklore, educate children in noble qualities such as love to labor, respect to elder people companionship, friendship, bravery, perseverance, and keep them away from negative situations such as enviousness, laziness, greediness and cowardice. Therefore, the more the society develops and new generation is born, the more folklore examples will be created and will contribute to the education of the younger generation.

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