Examining the aspects of advices in the illustrations of Kohmarreh Sorkhi region

Parables are one of the types of popular literature that have always been a suitable platform for reflecting the feelings, thoughts, beliefs, ideals, wishes and mood of human societies. One of the important features of parables is their instructive aspect. The Sorkhi tribe is one of the ancient Iranian tribes whom has lived in the southwest of Shiraz and in the Kohmarreh-Sorkhi area. These people speak the Sorkhi dialect and they have a rich oral literature. folktale is one of the most used types in the conversations of the people in this country. The author first collected four hundred and sixty-three tales, two hundred and eighty of them have an educational aspect, using the field method and using old people in different villages of this region. Using library resources and with a descriptive-analytical approach, he has examined and analyzed their instructional aspects. The importance and necessity of this research is to preserve an important part of the folk literature of this region, which is on the threshold of destruction. The findings of the research show many and diverse concepts of advice in the parables of the Sorkhi people. More than half of the parables in this area contain advice. The news to observe moral virtues and stay away from moral vices, work, marriage and raising children includes most of these concepts. The instructional concepts of these parables are classified into eight categories: teachings about moral virtues, teachings about moral vices, teachings about friends, enemies, and neighbors, and mixtures about livelihood. and asking for a living, teachings about advice to work, planning in effort, trusting work to assistants, teachings about marriage, teachings about raising children and the other issues, and teachings about awareness in knowing people in the society.