Selected Folktales of China's Ethnic Minorities – New Curriculum Reading Series for Chinese Language

Author: Shi Junchao
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Folk fables are oral prose stories created by the masses, containing clear moral lessons. They are the crystallization of the people's wisdom and experience. Most of them express themes through life fragments, where the plot and meaning often reach a state of perfect unity. The style is subtle, humorous, and thought-provoking. Folk jokes, on the other hand, are short, humorous, and comical stories. Some of them satirize the foolish and greedy rulers, but most are works that critique certain flaws in people's internal lives and character.