民俗文化：一宗亟待合理开发和利用的人文旅游资源

民俗是一个国家或民族中由广大民众参与创造、享用和世代传承的生活文化。我国多民族的丰富多彩、积淀深厚的民俗文化是一宗独特而珍贵的人文旅游资源。它具有实用性、知识性、审美性、神奇性等多重文化品格，因之，对它进行开发和利用必然会扩大、丰富和完善我国旅游业的内容。开发和利用民俗文化旅游资源，应该遵循文化性、民间性及参与性等原则。

Folklore: A Human Tourism Resource Needed to Urqently and Rationally Develop and Use

Folklore means life culture created and shared by the people of a country or a nation and inherited from generation to generation. China's multinational and rooted folklore culture is a kind of special and precious human tourism resources. It has the cultural qualities of pragmatism, knowledge, appreciation and mystique. Therefore, the developing and using of folklore culture will definitely enlarge, enrich and perfect China's tourism content. But developing and using the tourism resources of folklore culture should adhere to the principles of the quatity of culture, the quality of folk and the quatity of participation.