Abstract: Although belonging to the culture and education categories respectively, folk literary works listed as intangible cultural heritage and sense of community for the Chinese nation are internally connected as the former, folk literature of minority ethnic groups in particular, contains such rich content of the latter as to be able to provide it with rich educational resources. This advantage and the multiple-channel introduction of folk literary works of intangible cultural heritage into campus can be of great significance for the education of sense of community for the Chinese nation in areas inhabited by minority ethnic groups in Yunnan Province.

Key words: folk literary work of intangible cultural heritage, frontier area inhabited by multiple minority ethnic groups, education of sense of community for the Chinese nation, path