Abstract: As an interdisciplinary study of folklore and narratology, folk narrative is an indispensible component in the construction of Chinese narratology and an important dimension in the study of literary folkloristics. However, due to the ambiguity of the term and the lack of consensus of its academic parlance, "folklore narrative" has incurred much inconvenience to relevant studies. From the perspective of literary folkloristics, when the folk culture as a phenomenon in narratological text of fictions is to be defined, it is more appropriate to replace folklore narrative with the narrative of literary folklore. Narrative of literary folklore focuses on the narrative as a story, aiming to provide a grounded folk and narratological interpretation for various types of narratives of literature folklore. The paper concludes that research into the narrative of literary folklore will open a new dimension in Chinese narratology and holds unique importance to the study of the history of novels and cultural history and the history of novels.

Key words: folklore narrative, Chinese narratology, literary folkloristics, narrative of literary folklore