Practical folklorists insist that folkloristics should restore the prior conditions of people as free persons in the daily life and focus on the rational objective conditions behind folklore practices.The viewpoint has greatly enhanced the academic consciousness of folkloristics in China;however,its application to the Enlightenment rationalism,its judgment of the international folkloristics’ turn to practice,and its review of the academic tradition of folkloristics’ empiricism,all need to be discussed more deeply.