Aesop 620-560b C was born in Greece about 600 years before the birth of Christ, that is, more than 2,500 years ago. Aesop was a mute when he was a child. He only made strange noises and expressed his meaning by gestures. Plus, he is short and ugly, and the neighbors think he is crazy. But his mother loves him very much and often tells him stories. His uncle hates this short and ugly nephew and often forces him to do the hardest work in the field.
After his mother died, Aesop wandered around the country with the old man who took care of him, so he told many stories about birds, insects and animals. They have lived happily together for many years. Later, Aesop was sold by a shepherd, and Aesop became a slave.
One day, Aesop dreamed that fate smiled at him in a friendly way and put his finger in his mouth to relax his tongue. When he woke up, he found that he could speak.
Everyone likes Aesop's stories and admires his extraordinary wisdom. Aesop once saved his friends and masters by wit; Use wit to avoid the harm of the enemy and release the shackles of slaves. It is said that Aesop was framed and killed for offending the Delphi people.
Aesop did not write down his fables; He dictated them completely from memory. The world-famous Aesop's Fables was compiled by later generations according to the fables collected by the Byzantine monk Prender and the fables of ancient Greece discovered one after another. Most of them are animals: some use metaphors such as jackals and lions to reveal their cruel and arrogant side; Others sum up people's life experience and teach people the truth of being a man. Its form is concise and concise, and its content is meaningful and profound, which is quite intriguing in the concise and vivid language.
Aesop's Fables
The most widely read book in the world has the greatest influence on western ethics and political thought.
The essence of eastern and western folk literature and the crystallization of the wisdom of working people.
One of the 100 books that have influenced human culture.
The oldest collection of fables in the world
Aesop's Fables is known as the originator of western fables, and its appearance laid the foundation for fables as a literary genre. For more than two thousand years, Aesop's Fables has had a far-reaching and extensive influence in the history of European literature development, and has repeatedly become the blueprint for later fable creation. For example, La Fontaine's The Race between the Tortoise and the Rabbit and krylov's The Fox and the Grape both directly adopted the theme in Aesop's Fables and made artistic processing.
Aesop's Fables is the oldest collection of fables in the world, with short length and informal form. Simple stories often shine with the light of wisdom, and generate shines with the spark of wisdom, which contains profound implications. It is not only an enlightenment textbook to instill the concept of good, evil, beauty and ugliness in children, but also a life textbook, which has a great influence on future generations. In the history of European literature, it laid the foundation for fable creation. Aesop's Fables is often quoted by literary works and even political works all over the world, either as a metaphor for reasoning or as a weapon of attack and satire. The essence of this book still has positive practical significance.
Aesop's fables are worth reading. It gives us at least three kinds of comfort. First, this is an ancient book. Reading it can enhance our pride in modern civilization. Second, this is a children's book. The more you read it, the more you feel like an adult, which goes beyond those childish opinions. Third, this book is almost all about animals, from animals to people, you see how much it will evolve!
-Qian Zhongshu, a famous scholar
People who are used to reading fables in the pre-Qin period in China will be surprised when they read Aesop's Fables for the first time, because these are two completely different ways of thinking. Pre-Qin fables are cold and clear, while Aesop's fables are warm and generous. Pre-Qin fables are very sophisticated, while Aesop's fables are very childlike. Aesop's Fables had a comprehensive and profound influence on later European fairy tales and their forms of expression, but the fables in the pre-Qin period did not give birth to them, but suppressed the germination of China's fairy tales-China had no fairy tales.
-Famous writer Zhang Yuanshan
Aesop's Fables embodies the truth that is not perceived by us in daily life through short fables, which are charming, concise and approachable. Not only has a large number of readers, but also has a great influence in the history of literature. Writers, poets, philosophers and ordinary people are all inspired and enjoyed. Many stories can really be said to be household names, such as "The Race between the Tortoise and the Rabbit" and "The Wolf is Coming". Today, thousands of years later, Aesop's Fables has become a model of western fable literature and one of the most widely circulated classic works in the world.
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Aesop's Fables
In the history of the development of European fables, ancient Greek fables occupy an important position. It initiated the development of European fables and influenced the whole process of the development of European fables, and the confluence of Greek fables is Aesop's fables.
Fable is a kind of folk oral creation, which mainly reflects people's life wisdom, including social activities, productive labor and daily life. Aesop's Fables is compiled from various manuscripts handed down from generation to generation, including more than 300 fables, some of which are widely known.
Aesop's Fables, as the crystallization of people's life experiences and experiences, is not only of profound significance, but also very successful in artistic treatment. The stories in Aesop's Fables are generally short and pithy with simple structure, but the images are vivid and vivid, and the fables are natural and profound. Most of Aesop's fables are animal fables, except for a few fables featuring human beings. Some of the author's thoughts are expressed by personifying animals. These animal stories are undoubtedly fictional, but they are natural and realistic. It should be pointed out that the animals in Aesop's Fables, except some animals, generally have no fixed personality characteristics, such as foxes and wolves. Sometimes they are endowed with negative personality, and sometimes they are affirmed. This is different from the basic stereotyped personality characteristics formed by later fables.
Aesop's fables had a great influence on the later development of European fables. Phedros, an ancient Roman fable writer in the/kloc-0 ~ (th) century, directly inherited the tradition of Aesop's fables, borrowed many stories from Aesop's fables, and called his fables "Aesop-style fables". Briouse, a Greek fable writer in the 2nd century A.D., adopted Aesop's fables more. This tradition was inherited by the fable creation in the later period of ancient Greece and Rome. After the Renaissance, the rearrangement and publication of Aesop's Fables greatly promoted the development of European fable creation, and many outstanding fable writers appeared one after another, such as La Fontaine of France, Lessing of Germany and krylov of Russia.
With the spread of western learning, Aesop's Fables was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. Matteo Ricci, the first western missionary to China, wrote Ten Freaks while living in China, in which Aesop was introduced and Aesop's fables were quoted. Diego de Pantoja, a missionary after him, also introduced and quoted Aesop's fables in Seven Grams. The first translation of Aesop's Fables in China was published by Kuang Yi in Xi 'an on 1625. After the Qing Dynasty, many versions of Aesop's fables appeared. The above situation shows that Aesop's fables have been circulating in China for a long time and are still loved and fondled by people. ?
Aesop may be a person in the 6th century BC. He was born in Frokia, Asia Minor, and was a slave of a master named Kai Santos. Herodotus (484-430 BC), an ancient Greek historian, wrote in the second volume of History: "Rodopius is a slave of the son of Hepto Pohris, a Samoan, and a slave of the same master as Aesop who wrote fables." Thanks to Aesop's intelligence, he got rid of slavery. He travels around telling people fables. It is said that King Clothos of Lydia in Asia Minor (560-546 BC) trusted him and sent him to Delphi, but Aesop was killed.
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Aesop's Fables means "Aesop's Fables", most of which were produced in the time when Aesop lived and most of them were written by Aesop. A small part was created by later generations and issued in the name of master Aesop.
As the crystallization of ancient Greek life wisdom, it embodies a wide range of contents, and most chapters are about the moral standards of being a man. There are many famous chapters in Aesop's Fables, among which wolves and lambs, farmers and snakes, turtles and rabbits, foxes and grapes are the most popular. Wolf and Lamb tells that the wolf wants to eat the lamb and pretentiously tries to cover up his evil deeds, but when the simple lamb debunks his hypocritical face, the wolf reveals his tenacious nature. "The Farmer and the Snake" tells that the farmer saw a snake frozen stiff in winter, so he held it in his arms to keep warm. The snake woke up and bit the benefactor, and the farmer died of poisoning. The Race between the Tortoise and the Rabbit tells the story of the race between the tortoise and the rabbit. The tortoise defeated the lazy rabbit with unremitting efforts. The Fox and the Grapes tells that the fox sees the grapes on the shelf, but he can't pick them. When he left, he said the grapes were sour.
Aesop's Fables is the oldest collection of fables in the world, with short length and informal form. Simple stories often shine with the light of wisdom, and generate shines with the spark of wisdom, which contains profound implications.
Aesop's Fables is very childlike. Aesop's Fables is not only profound, but also successful in artistic treatment. The stories in Aesop's Fables are generally short and pithy with simple structure, but the images are vivid and vivid, and the fables are natural and profound. Most of Aesop's fables are animal fables, except for a few fables featuring human beings. Some of the author's thoughts are expressed by personifying animals. These animal stories are undoubtedly fictional, but they are natural and realistic. It should be pointed out that the animals in Aesop's Fables, except some animals, generally have no fixed personality characteristics, such as foxes and wolves. Sometimes they are endowed with negative personality, and sometimes they are affirmed. This is different from the basic stereotyped personality characteristics formed by later fables.