What is a fable? Modern Chinese Dictionary explains "fable" in this way: literary works that illustrate a certain truth or lesson with false stories or anthropomorphic natural objects are often ironic or admonitory.
In fact, there are many idiom stories in our Chinese textbooks, such as: contradiction, stealing clocks, pulling out seedlings to help others, making up for death and so on. The stories of these favorite idioms are short, but they contain profound truth. This is the fable.
The hero of a fable can be a person, an animal or a plant. Fables often use metonymy to reveal educational themes or profound truths in highly concise stories.
How can I write a good fable?
First of all, there must be a popular and simple story. A wonderful story is the beginning of the success of fable, which is short in length and aims at telling things and reasoning. The ultimate goal of reasoning is achieved by telling stories, and the quality of story setting is related to the future of fables. The famous poem "The Farmer and the Snake" in Aesop's fables in ancient Greece enjoys a high reputation in the world. His success lies in the readability of the story. No matter what your educational level is, you can realize the truth in simple and clear stories. The same is true of China's famous fable On Contradictions. The word contradiction in Chinese evolved directly from this fable, from which we can see how important the story charm of the fable is.
Without interesting stories, truth has no place. Students can use rich imagination, metaphor, personification, exaggeration and other rhetorical devices to make everything in nature active, so as to come to your story and tell a story full of some philosophy. But everything must conform to the laws of nature and cannot go against common sense. Stories should be short, interesting, fresh and lively in order to attract people and benefit readers from laughter.
Secondly, simple truth is an indispensable part of fable. What truth it contains depends not only on the author's theme, but also on the development of the story.
The moral of fable story is the soul of fable creation, just as human beings must have thinking. Implication is an invisible line in fable creation. In many cases, this line is not directly reflected in the text. However, the meaning of a good fable will gradually become clear with the reader's reading process. This is the charm of allegorical independence as a literary genre. For example, Dong, an ancient prose, is very representative, and its implication is not directly reflected in the text, but most readers who have read it have realized the effect of Dong and shattered glass. And our children can write fables and tell some simple life truths in combination with their own life reality. For example, we should educate everyone to respect the old and love the young, love labor and not tell lies. We can also tell you some common sense of life through fables, and teach you to abide by traffic laws and regulations and use water and electricity correctly.
It is not easy for children to write philosophical fables because of their lack of life experience. However, fables must have certain authenticity, practical significance or education.