　　中公风俗学习成立于1983年5月21日，由全公风俗学任务者志愿结成，是大众性的和非获利性的风俗学专业学术集体，现有在册会员2654人。中公风俗学习现任会长为叶涛，副会长为安德明、敖其、巴莫曲布嫫、陈泳超、黄永林、江帆、李刚、林继富、刘晓春、刘晓峰、施爱东、万建中、萧放、杨利慧、尹虎彬、张士闪、赵宗福、郑土有。

　　本会成立背景：1978年炎天，由钟敬文传授草拟，结合顾颉刚、白寿彝、容肇祖、杨堃、杨成志、汲取同等人，致函中国社会学习院，随后颁发了《成立风俗学及有关学习机构的建议书》，获得有关带领同道的高度正视和天下泛博风俗学任务者的主动呼应。1982年6月，中公风俗学习准备会在京成立，钟敬文传授任主任委员。1983年5月21日，中公风俗学习成立大会在北京盛大召开，推举周扬为名望理事长，钟敬文为理事长，刘魁立为秘书长。

　　本会的根基主旨：连合天下泛博风俗学任务者，查询拜访、汇集、清算、学习我国各民族的风俗文化景象，构造展开学术交换，汇集宣布学术信息，增进学术成长。

　　本会首要营业规模：

（一）汇集、清算中公风俗文献材料与郊野材料，慢慢成立中公风俗文化信息资本库。
（二）停止风俗学根本实际学习和专题学习，鼓动勉励和构造风俗学郊野功课。
（三）构造编辑出书风俗书刊，翻译、评介外洋风俗学著述。
（四）经由过程举行培训班、创办网络论坛、构造郊野查询拜访等体例，培育风俗学人才。
（五）构造和到场国际外风俗学学术集会，增进学术繁华。
（六）主动到场中国非物资文化遗产保护任务。
（七）扶植中公风俗学习网站，不时更新、维护，使之成为风俗学学习者及喜好者的学术故里。

　　2003年10月, “中公风俗学习网”建立；2008年9月经三期改版、改名和体系进级，“中公风俗学网” (China Folklore Network, CFN) 及其两个功效性站点“风俗学博客” (Folklore Blogs) 和“风俗学论坛” (Folklore Forum)上网试运转，2008年12月27日新网全站正式守旧。

A Brief Introduction to China Folklore Society (CFS)

　　Created on May 21, 1983, the China Folklore Society (CFS) is a professional and non-profit organization of the folklorists and folklore fellows all over the China. CFS has so far registered 2654 members; the current President is YE Tao; Vice Presidents are AN Deming, AU Qi, BAMO Qubumo, CHEN Yongchao, HUANG Yonglin, JIANG Fan, LI Gang, LIN Jifu, LIU Xiaochun, LIU Xiaofeng, SHI Aidong, WAN Jianzhong, XIAO Fang, YANG Lihui, YIN Hubin, ZHANG Shishan, ZHAO Zongfu, ZHENG Tuyou..

　　In the summer of 1978, professor Zhong Jingwen drafted out a cosignatory letter, signed jointly by Gu Jiegang, Bai Shouyi, Rong Zhaozu, Yang Kun, Yang Chengzhi, Luo Zhiping, and then submitted to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, advocating for setting up a national institution regarding folklore studies, which attracted much attention from related leaders and got active responses from folklorists and scholars concerned. In June 1982, the Preparatory Committee for CFS was established in Beijing. Professor Zhong Jingwen was elected as the head. In May 1983, the founding ceremony was grandly held in Beijing; Zhou Yang was elected as the Honorable President, Zhong Jingwen as the President, Liu Kuili as Secretary-general.

　　The general objectives of CFS (under the Article 3 of the Bylaws of CFS) aim at uniting with and organizing folklorists and folklore fellows throughout the country, to investigate, collect, collate, and study folklore and folk cultural phenomenon among the people of all ethnic groups of the country, to facilitate scholarly exchanges and cooperation with its counterparts both at home and abroad, to gather, disseminate, and share academic information and resources, and to further the discipline of folklore studies.

　　The professional objectives of CFS are (under the Article 6 of the Bylaws of CFS):

(1) to collect and collate folklore materials from multiform literatures and field investigations, and then gradually build up an information resource database for preserving China's folklore and cultural traditions;
(2) to stimulate studies on basic theories and conduct specific research projects in folkloristics with an emphasis on encouraging and organizing fieldwork in folklore in all its aspects;
(3) to compile and publish folkloristic books, field study reports and periodicals, and at the same time to enhance translations from and reviews of overseas works in folkloristics.
(4) to train talents and discover qualified personnel by all the means, such as holding workshops, launching online forums, and carrying out field study practices, as well as facilitating other appropriate channels;
(5) to organize and participate in domestic and international conferences in order to reinforce scholarly discourses and academic exchanges;
(6) to participate in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage with professional spirit and initiative;
(7) to strengthen the website construction of the China Folklore Network (CFN), keep it up to date and well maintained, and make it become a home for all the folklore fellows and folk culture amateurs.

　　CFS's governance is implemented by its Executive Board, Professional Committees and by its Secretariat, primarily through organizing conferences, publications, training, promoting folkloristics from theories to practices, enhancing multilateral cooperation, strengthening capacity-building, all of which ensure that CFS maintains a recognized competence in specialization.