Why are fables popular in the Middle Ages in the West?

We all know Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables handed down by the ancient Greeks in the 6th century BC. He embodies the truth in our daily life through short fables. These short stories are very vivid and not so complicated, so people can understand the truth after reading them, so they are very educational. They are a book that every child will read when he was a child, and we can get a lot of inspiration and fun from them. Now Aesop's fables have become a model of western fable literature and the most widely circulated classic works in the world. Therefore, it is known as the ancestor of western fables. Next, Bian Xiao will give you a detailed introduction.

First of all, there are many well-known stories, such as the race between the tortoise and the rabbit, the wolf coming, the fox saying sour grapes and so on. Most of these fables are based on animals, with their characters as metaphors, and then let us know some principles of dealing with people and little things that we don't usually care about, so as to educate us how to be a correct person. This book collects three or four hundred short stories and lyric poems, which mainly reflect the different feelings of aristocratic slaves. These short stories are a summary of the struggle experiences and life lessons of the bullied lower-class civilians and slaves. By describing the relationship between animals, we can express the relationship between people or the unequal relationship between classes at that time. In addition to those beautiful stories, there are many realistic stories, such as farmers and snakes advising people not to be soft on the enemy. The author is exposing the rulers at that time. It has a wide audience, so this is one of the reasons for its high status.

Then we can see from the works that the time span of each of his stories is relatively large, and each story is aimed at different directions, so it was not made by one person at a time, but by the ancient Greeks for a long time. He came from the folk and went to the folk, which initiated the development of European fables and reflected the wisdom of people's life at that time. This is a more important reason.

Finally, although these stories are all fictional, they are naturally realistic and give us some inspiration. It is well-deserved to be the originator of western fables.