What does the fable mean? The fable is a story with allegory or obvious lesson meaning, which is a literary genre.
It has a short structure and uses metonymy, so that the theme or profound truth with lessons can be reflected in simple stories.
The story plot of the fable is good or bad, which is related to the future of the fable.
1. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China, it has been popular and is a folk oral creation.
2. There have always been some famous fables in China, such as Pushing the Seedling to Grow Up, Self contradiction, Zheng Ren Buying Shoes, Waiting for the Hare, Seeking the Sword in the Cruel, Painting the Snake and Feet, etc. The famous piece "Farmers and Snakes" in Aesop's Fables in ancient Greece has enjoyed high popularity worldwide.
3. Its success lies in the readability of the story. No matter people's cultural level is high or low, they can understand the truth in simple and clear stories.
4. Origin: The word "fable" was first found in the fable of Zhuangzi.
5. It always narrates a small story, but in the specific plot, it implies a more profound thought, often with puns, in order to explain the philosophy and confirm the concept. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such a narrative method was often used by the pre Qin scholars and historical biographies as a means of presenting the theory.
6. Han Feizi is one of the representative works of reasoning prose in the Pre Qin period.
7. Since fable has become an independent style, it has shown a unique literary meaning.
8. The famous story of "He Shi Presenting Bi" has twists and turns; "Cepheid drives the horse" depicts the image of Cepheid as the best defender of dictatorship; "Zheng Xiu has a beautiful nose", which writes that Zheng Xiu is clever, eloquent, tactful, vicious, and the plot twists and turns, just like a short story with distinctive characters.
9. Mr. Gongmu was quoted as saying: "One of the most obvious features of Han Feizi's collection of fables is that it comprehensively and systematically reflects Han Feizi's view of history, society, literature and art, methodology and epistemology. It can be said that reading Han Feizi's fables is almost equivalent to reading a collection of legalist thoughts.
10. The rich fables became the shining point of reasoning prose, and also the great achievement of the fables of the Pre Qin scholars.
