Scheherazade, the daughter of the Prime Minister, volunteered to marry the king to save the innocent woman and attract the king by telling stories. Every night, at dawn, the king couldn't bear to kill her and allowed her to continue talking the next night. Her story has been told for 1001 nights, and the king was finally moved to grow old with her.
Arabian Nights, a collection of Arab folk fairy tales famous in the world literature, is the only classic that reflects the most representative Arab society in the Middle Ages. It reflects the development history of Arab national unity and national spirit, is a microcosm of understanding and investigating the transformation process of Arab society in the Middle Ages, and is also a historical process in which Arab-Islamic culture flourished and formed its mainstream values.
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Arabian Nights not only sets a good example for the creation of Arab folk stories, but also has a great influence on literature, music, drama and painting in western countries. It is rich in content, bizarre in plot, grand and magnificent, full of wonderful fantasies, full of rich flavor of life and distinctive national characteristics.
These stories include myths and legends, fairy tales and fables, court anecdotes, sailing adventures, war stories, love, joys and sorrows, celebrity anecdotes and so on. The characters in the story involved all social strata at that time, including emperors and princes, thieves and thieves, wealthy businessmen, fishermen and hunters, ordinary people, craftsmen and magicians. The plot is bizarre and tortuous, the characters are changeable, the structure is ingenious and fascinating.
It vividly depicts the colorful customs of Arabia with a wide range of themes and changeable artistic techniques, and shows the complex picture of social life, customs and religious beliefs of the Arab Empire in the Middle Ages.
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Baidu encyclopedia-1001 nights