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Brief introduction to the story of golden donkey

During the Roman Empire, a young man named Lu Qiao traveled to Greece and stayed at a friend's house on the way. He turned into a donkey because of the wrong use of magical drugs. Since then, he has worked under many masters, suffered from fate and read all kinds of anecdotes. Finally, when he ate the rose ring of the Egyptian goddess, he finally recovered his human form and came back to life.

The Golden Donkey, also known as Metamorphosis, has a volume of 1 1 and is based on Greek folklore. It describes a young Greek who misused a witch's medicine, changed from a man to a donkey, went through a lot of hardships and experienced a lot of sophistication, and was finally saved by the Egyptian goddess Isis, turned into a human form and converted to Isis. The novel maintains the style of folk stories, has the characteristics of legendary novels, and at the same time has a certain mysterious color. The novel truly describes the life of all walks of life in Roman provinces in the 2nd century, and the language is mixed with ancient sayings, which shows the author's tendency to respect the ancient. This article uses a lot of magic, witchcraft and so on. Through it, some protagonists have become donkeys. From the point of view of a donkey, this is a manifestation of this society, its goodness and evil, and its ugliness. Moreover, the protagonist was a dissolute young man who wanted to learn witchcraft, so he got retribution, misused witchcraft, became a donkey, suffered a lot, and finally changed back to human form, preaching the idea that "one good turn deserves another, and evil turns around".