Over the years, under the leadership of Professor Wu Bingan, we have achieved fruitful results.

Liaoning University currently has five dedicated teachers of folklore, namely Zhou Fuyan, Jiang Fan, Wang Wei, Ji Guoxiu, and Sui Li.

Wu Bing'an, a famous Chinese folklorist and folk literature artist.

The pen name is Wu Ke. He was born on November 3, 1929 in Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. His ancestral home is Haraqin and he is a Mongolian.

As a world-renowned folklorist, Professor Wu Bing'an is famous for his "Introduction to Folk Literature", "Folklore Series", "Chinese Folklore", "Principles of Folklore", "New Theory of Folk Culture", and "Chinese Folk Beliefs" A series of forward-looking and landmark folklore monographs such as "The Mysterious World of Shamans" and "Japanese Families and Northern Culture" have made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese and international folklore and folklore professional teaching. In the history of contemporary folklore, he is known as "the most prestigious folklorist of the second generation in my country".

Folklore Tutor of Liaoning University─Professor Zhou Fuyan Zhou Fuyan, male, born in May 1970, is from Shenyang, Liaoning.

In 1995, he received a master's degree in literature from the Chinese Department of Liaoning University, where he studied under Professor Wu Bing'an.

In 1998, he received a doctorate in folklore from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University, where he studied under Professor Zhong Jingwen.

Currently, he is a professor, deputy dean and master's tutor of folklore in the School of Liberal Arts of Liaoning University.

In 2008, he was fully funded by the Ministry of Education’s Overseas Chinese Scholarship Council and went to the Department of Sociology of Cambridge University in the UK as a visiting scholar.

The main research directions include critical theory of folk customs and daily life, cultural comparison of folk inheritance and mass communication, oral literature aesthetics and public social consciousness research.

Main academic part-time jobs: Member of the Chinese Folklore Society and deputy secretary-general of the Liaoning Folklore Society.

He presided over the 2004 National Social Science Fund project "Folklore and Daily Life - Thoughts on Some Theoretical Issues in Folklore". Since 1998, he has presided over and participated in several provincial scientific research projects.

Currently teaching Chinese folklore, history of Chinese folklore, principles and methods of sociology, contemporary Western social anthropology, contemporary Western social philosophy, semiotics, introduction to folklore, and introduction to sociology for master's and undergraduate students.

Since 2002, he has been continuously rated as a key young and middle-aged teacher of Liaoning University. In 2005, he was awarded the title of the first batch of outstanding young teachers of Liaoning University. In 2006, he was named an outstanding young key teacher of Liaoning Province.

Monograph "Research on the Ethical Thoughts of Folktales - Taking Gengcun Story Texts as the Object" (China Social Sciences Press/2006.3); edited 4 books; published in the national core academic journals "Folklore Research", "Humanities Magazine", "Ethnic Literature"

Research", "Northwestern Ethnic Studies", "Social Science Series", "Literary Theory and Criticism", etc. He has published more than 20 papers, and his results have had a wide impact in domestic academic circles.

Folklore Tutor of Liaoning University─Professor Jiang Fan Jiang Fan, female, born in 1952, is from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. She is currently a professor at the School of Culture and Communication of Liaoning University and a tutor for master's degree students in folklore.

He concurrently serves as the executive director of the Chinese Folklore Society, vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Folk Literature and Artists Association, and vice president of the Liaoning Provincial Folklore Society.

Mainly engaged in research on ethnic groups and culture, ecological anthropology and folklore, folk literature and inheritors in Northeast China.

Among them, the twenty-year follow-up study of the famous folktale writer Tan Zhenshan is quite influential in domestic and foreign academic circles.

In the past ten years, he has published dozens of academic papers at home and abroad, authored 7 academic books, 2 collections of field recordings, and participated in the compilation of 2 folk literature textbooks.

His academic achievements have won many national and provincial awards. In 1995, he was awarded the title of "Liaoning New Star of Literature and Art". In 1999, he was named by Liaoning Province as "Young and Middle-aged Literary Artists with both Virtue and Art".

His main works include: "Ecological Folklore", "Manchu Ecology and Folk Culture", "Mountain, Forest, People and Culture - Ecological Folklore and Sustainable Development in the Mountainous Areas of Northern Liaoning", "On Folk Oral Narratives", "Folklore Fieldwork Research"

", "Research on Types of Chinese Folktales" (co-author), "Survey of Chinese Ethnic Villages - Shenyang Xibe Xinmin Village" (co-author), etc.

The main awards include: "Folklore Fieldwork Research" won the second prize of the "Chinese Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award Academic Writing Award" (2001); "Ecological Folklore" won the third prize of the "Chinese Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award Academic Writing Award" (2001)

2004); the paper "Women's Folk Beliefs and Changes" won the second prize of the Liaoning Provincial Education Commission's Humanities and Social Science Research Outstanding Achievements Award (1999); the paper "The Immediacy and Creativity of Folk Narratives" won the fifth Literary Criticism Award of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

First Prize for Article (2005).

Folklore Tutor of Liaoning University—Professor Ji Guoxiu Ji Guoxiu is from Qingyuan, Liaoning.

He graduated from the Sociology Department of Shenyang Normal University in July 1993 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and stayed at the school in the same year.

In September 1998, he was admitted to the folklore major of Liaoning University and received a master's degree in law in July 2001.

In the same year, he was admitted to Beijing Normal University and studied folklore under Mr. Zhong Jingwen and Professor Wan Jianzhong.

Graduated in June 2004 with a doctorate in law.

In the same year, he served as a teacher at the School of Sociology of Shenyang Normal University.

In September 2012, he served as a master's tutor and professor in the folklore major of the School of Liberal Arts of Liaoning University.

Research fields: regional folklore; reflection on folklore methodology.