What's the difference between fairy tales, myths and fables? Please, thank you.

Fairy tales generally contain beautiful things, which are for children and people who love fantasy. Myth is generally some stories or fragments circulating in old people and ancient books. On the other hand, fables have certain philosophies and inspiring stories or deeds. First, different ideas. Fairy tales are a kind of children's literature. Such works create images and reflect life through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration. The anthropomorphic description of natural objects is often used, and the plot is magical and vivid, so as to adapt to children's psychological hobbies and carry out ideological education for children. Fable is a meaningful truth with a figurative story. Persuasive and satirical short stories express profound truth with simple facts. Most of them use short structures, vivid images and exaggerated imagination to illustrate a certain truth or satirize a certain social phenomenon. Myth is a story of ancient people's understanding and imagination of natural and cultural phenomena. It is an early unconscious artistic creation of human beings and a collective oral creation with artistic interpretation and description. Marx said that myth is "the natural and social form itself processed by human fantasy in an unconscious artistic way." It reflects the ancients' understanding of the origin of the world, natural phenomena and the primitiveness of social life. Second, time and origin are different. Fairy tales were originally created by the masses and circulated among the people. As a fairy tale of literature, China began during the Revolution of 1911. At that time, there were all kinds of fairy tales compiled by Sun and others. At that time, the concept of fairy tales was still very vague, thinking that it was nothing more than "children's words without restraint." It is the modern writer Zheng Zhenduo who really endows fairy tales with new contents, cultivates and encourages their creation and makes them a unique literary genre. Western fairy tales are earlier than China. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, Danish writer Andersen created a large number of fairy tales, which were favored by readers. Fables came into being a little later than myths. It came into being with the continuous development of history and people's deepening understanding of society. It is a conscious artistic processing of various social forms by human beings with their own understanding. Originally from the collective creation of the masses, it was later collected and refined by scholars, forming beautiful literary works. China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period is the most prosperous period of fable development, and there are many fables circulating in the works where a hundred schools of thought contend. Famous foreign fables include Aesop's fables in ancient Greece and La in France. Feng Dan fable and Russian fable. Myth is "the product of human childhood in history". Its creation is closely combined with the activities of ancient people fighting for survival and natural forces. The level of productivity in ancient times was very low, and people could not scientifically explain the origin and changes of the world, natural phenomena and primitive social and cultural life. They believe that these unpredictable phenomena are commanded and controlled by God. So in their minds, all the natural forces are visualized and personalized by their imagination. Later, in productive labor, they created many stories of gods according to their heroic images, which were passed down orally. This is the earliest myth. It is the unconscious artistic processing of nature by the ancients, which reflects people's illusory and interesting understanding of nature. In China's ancient books, such as Shan Hai Jing and Huai Nan Zi, many fairy tales are preserved, and foreign myths are also famous, such as Homer's epic. Third, the characteristics are different. Fairy tales often give life to inanimate things, and most of them involve supernatural gods. Images in fairy tales come from life, but they don't actually exist in life, even in life. They are symbolic and greatly exaggerated. Fables have unique philosophy and satire. Heroes can be human beings, anthropomorphic creatures or non-creatures. Themes are mostly metaphors of this and that, distance, past and present, and size, so profound truths can be reflected in simple stories. Fables often use exaggeration and personification in their creation, and often personify animals or other natural objects by fictional means. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Most mythical characters have superhuman powers, which are imagined according to the image, production situation, understanding of natural forces and requirements for improving their own abilities. Generally speaking, the foundation of myth creation is realistic, and the method of myth creation is romantic. Folklore has a wide range and various stories. It can be a legend or an anecdote, and it is spread by the people. It is usually created on the basis of certain realistic facts. Fairy stories can only be about gods, with supernatural colors. Many myths also belong to folk customs, but folk customs are not necessarily myths.