The modern turning of folkloristics is essentially to shift the folkloristic perspective from the past to the present. This shift is not only a realistic demand for a convincing academic explanation for the life revolution due to social transformation, but also a way of self-salvation for folkloristics when facing disciplinary crisis. Modernity-oriented folkloristics needs to redefine the overall problem consciousness of modern folkloristics by reinterpreting the academic key terms closely related to modernity such as tradition, urbanization, internet technology, globalization, and everyday life. At the same time, modern folkloristics shall truly embrace everyday life at the most realistic level and give professional and profound explanations by fundamentally reversing the situation in which "survivals" are overemphasized in the past.