Aesop's Fables

Author: Feng Menglong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Yushi Mingyan consists of forty independent stories. The content is rich and can be broadly categorized into the following parts:
1. Marriage, Family, and Love, where the positive themes include advocating free love and condemning treachery, such as Zhang Shumei Gets a Beauty at the Lantern Festival and Jinyunu Beats the Unfeeling Lover;
2. Exposing the darkness of the officialdom, such as Shen Xiaoxia Meets at the Outgoing General's Memorial;
3. Reflecting the invasion of enemy forces and the suffering of the people, such as Yang Balao's Miraculous Meeting in the Foreign Land;
Additionally, there are stories praising self-sacrifice for friendship, such as Yang Jiao'ai Gives His Life to Save a Friend, as well as tales depicting deities, immortals, and Buddhist figures, such as Liang Wuji's Accumulated Merits Lead to Enlightenment.