Aesop's Fables

Author: Ming Feng Menglong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: ▼Complete Content ▼Sandalwood Aroma ▼Compact and Lightweight ▼Original Illustrations ▼Portable——In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, short narrative vernacular fiction flourished, and Feng Menglong's "San Yan" stands as one of the most accomplished and influential works in this genre. It "extremely portrays the diversity of human emotions and life's joys and sorrows," serving as a crucial collection of vernacular short stories spanning the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Its emergence marked the climax of the compilation and creation of ancient vernacular short fiction.——"San Yan" is the collective title for the three novel collections: "Yushi Mingyan," "Jingshi Tongyan," and "Xingshi Hengyan." These works represent the culmination of old and new, ancient and modern, either compiling and adapting existing old texts or re-creating them by gathering notes, legendary tales, operas, historical stories, and even social rumors, synthesizing a wide range of materials to provide a comprehensive and multi-layered reflection of late Ming society.——The compiler, Feng Menglong, was born into a scholarly family and was renowned for his talent from a young age. He was once described as a "carefree figure in the world of pleasure," an unrestrained and unconventional individual...