What are the characteristics of fairy tales?

Fairy tales are a kind of children's literature. This kind of work shapes images and reflects life through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration, and educates children's thoughts.

The language is popular and vivid, and the storyline is often bizarre and fascinating. Fairy tales often use anthropomorphism, birds, animals, insects and fish, flowers, plants and trees, the whole of nature, as well as furniture, toys can be given life, injected into the human thoughts and feelings, so that they are personified.

Expanded information:

"Fairy tale The word "fairy tale" is explained in the Modern Chinese Dictionary as "a genre of children's literature, in which stories suitable for children's enjoyment are written through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration". The basic explanation of the word "fairy tale" in the Dictionary is "a kind of children's literature, through imagination, fantasy and exaggeration to shape artistic images, reflect life and enhance the growth of children's character".

Summary, the so-called fairy tale is one of the genres of children's literature, which is suitable for children to read by shaping images through rich fantasies and exaggerations, symbols and anthropomorphisms. Fairy tale is one of the genres of children's literature, through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration written for children to enjoy the story. The basic characteristics of fairy tales include: they are written according to the characteristics of children's psychological development.

There are unique rhetorical devices, such as symbols and metaphors. For children in the early stages of life, they are rich in fantasy, very curious about everything in the world, without a clear concept of subject and object, that everything has a spirit, such as the belief that everything around them is like themselves, will be happy as well as sniveling, and will be hungry and thirsty. Thus, children have their own unique way of knowing the world.

In order to help children recognize their surroundings and things, it is necessary to create an intermediary that is both suitable for their psychological characteristics and conducive to their development. The nature of fairy tales and their value to children's development can play just such a role. At the same time, fairy tales are also loved by children. As Lenin said, "It is in the nature of children to love to hear wonderful fairy tales."

Baidu Encyclopedia - Fairy Tales

People's Daily Online - International Children's Book Day Inventory of Classic Fairy Tales That We Love