Aesop's Fables

Author: Cao Xinyuan
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Publish Date: 2001-04-02
Features: "Aesop's Fables" is profound and incisive in its philosophy, filled with humor and rich imagination, and has had a great influence on later generations. As early as the Ming Dynasty in China, there were published translations of Aesop's Fables, narrated by missionaries. Among them, "The Farmer and the Snake," "The Wolf and the Lamb," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Fox and the Crow," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" are more widely known to the Chinese people. "Aesop's Fables" nurtures the growth of Chinese children from generation to generation, inspires their hearts of kindness and honesty, and cultivates their love for life and labor, bravery and cleverness, disdain for earning without effort, and the courage to resist violence and evil.