Aesop's life profile Aesop (Aesop 620-560b C) was born in Greece about 600 BC, that is, more than 2,500 years ago. Aesop was a mute when he was a child. He only made strange noises and expressed himself with 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 became a slave. One day, Aesop dreamed that fortune smiled kindly at him. Put your finger in your mouth and relax your 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 friend and master with wit. Avoid the harm of the enemy with wit and release the shackles of slaves. It is said that Aesop was framed and killed for offending the Delphi people. Aesop didn't write his fables, but dictated them completely from memory. Aesop's Fables is a world-famous fable, which was copied and edited by later generations according to the fables collected by Byzantine monk Pu Launders and the ancient Greek fables discovered one after another. Most of them are animals: some use metaphors such as wolves and lions. Others sum up people's life experience and teach people the principles of dealing with life. Its form is concise, its content is meaningful and profound, and its language is concise and vivid. It's quite intriguing. Aesop's Fables has the largest number of readers in the world and 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. Aesop's Fables is one of the 65,438+000 books that have influenced human culture. It is considered as the ancestor of western fables, and its appearance laid the foundation for fables as a literary genre. For more than two thousand years, Aesop's fables have had a far-reaching and extensive influence in the history of European literature development. It 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 were artistically processed. Aesop's Fables is the oldest collection of fables in the world, which is short in length and informal in form, and its simple stories often sparkle with sparks of wisdom and wit. It contains profound meaning. 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 later 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 criticism and satire. It still has positive practical significance. Aesop's fables can be read well. It gives us at least three kinds of comfort. First, ancient books 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, and how much evolution it takes to change from animals to people. -Qian Zhongshu, a famous scholar, is used to reading pre-Qin fables. People in China will be surprised when they read Aesop's fables for the first time, because they are two completely different ways of thinking. The fables in the pre-Qin period were cold, while Aesop's fables were 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. -Zhang Yuanshan's famous writer Aesop's Fables embodies the truth that is not perceived by us in daily life through short fables, which is full of charm and concise. Approachable. Not only are there many readers, but they also have great influence in the history of literature. Writers, poets, philosophers and ordinary people are interested in it. Many stories can 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. It is also one of the most widely circulated classic works in the world. -the history of world literature Aesop's fables Aesop's fables occupy an important position in the history of the development of European fables. 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 was originally a folk oral creation, which mainly reflected 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 well known. As the crystallization of people's life experiences and experiences, Aesop's fables are not only profound in meaning, but also very successful in artistic treatment. The stories in Aesop's Fables are generally short, simple in structure, but vivid in image. Fables are natural and profound. Aesop's Fables are mostly animal fables except a few. Some of the author's ideas 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 such as foxes and wolves, generally have no fixed personality characteristics, and sometimes they are endowed with negative personality. Sometimes, yes. 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, directly inherited Aesop's fable tradition and borrowed many stories from Aesop's Fables. He also called his fable "Aesop's fable". Babulus, 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 printing of Aesop's Fables greatly promoted the development of European fable creation, and many excellent fable writers appeared one after another. Such as La Fontaine in France, Lessing in Germany and krylov in Russia. With the spread of western learning, Aesop's Fables was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. Matteo Ricci, the first western missionary who came to China, wrote Ten Freaks during his life in China, in which Aesop was introduced. He quoted Aesop's fable. 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. Aesop may be a person in the 6th century BC. He was born in Frokia, Asia Minor, and once worked as a slave in a master's house named Kai Santos. Herodotus (484-430 BC), an ancient Greek historian, wrote in the second volume of History: "Rodopius is the slave of Edmund, the son of the Samoan Hephaetopolis, and is the slave of the same master as Aesop who wrote fables." Aesop. After being liberated from slavery, he traveled around and told 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. ⊙ Summary? Aesop's fables mean "Aesop's Fables Collection". Most of them were produced in the time when Aesop lived, and most of them were written by Aesop. Several of them were created by later generations and sent out in the name of Aesop, the master. As the crystallization of ancient Greek life wisdom, it reflects a wide range of contents, and most chapters are about the moral principles 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. The wolf and the lamb told us that the wolf wanted to eat the lamb. Wolves show the nature of the earth. The Farmer and the Snake tells the story 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 hare tells that the tortoise defeated the lazy rabbit with unremitting efforts. The fox and the grape said that the fox saw the shelf. It is said that grapes are 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 fables are natural and profound. Aesop's Fables are mostly animal fables except a few. Some of the author's ideas 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 generally have no fixed personality characteristics, such as foxes and wolves, and are sometimes endowed with negative personalities.