What is the concept of fairy tales?

The concept of fairy tales refers to some stories that we use an exaggerated idea to make a reasonable description according to real life and are suitable for children to enjoy!

Modern Chinese Dictionary defines fairy tales as "a genre of children's literature, which compiles stories suitable for children's appreciation through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration".

The basic explanation of the word "fairy tale" in Ci Hai is "a kind of children's literature, which shapes artistic images, reflects life and promotes the growth of children's character through imagination, fantasy and exaggeration".

To sum up, the so-called fairy tale is one of the genres of children's literature, which shapes the image through rich fantasy, exaggeration, symbol and personification, so as to be suitable for children to read.

Fairy tale is a genre of children's literature, which is suitable for children to enjoy through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration. The basic characteristics of fairy tales are: it is written according to the characteristics of children's psychological development; There are unique rhetorical devices, such as symbols and metaphors. For children in early life, they are full of illusions and are very curious about everything in the world. There is no clear concept of subject and object, and they think that everything is animistic. If they feel that everything around them is like themselves, they will cry happily and be hungry and thirsty.

Therefore, children have their own unique way of understanding the world. In order to help children understand the surrounding environment and things, we should create an intermediary that is suitable for children's psychological characteristics and conducive to their development.

The essence of fairy tales and their value to children's development can play such a role. At the same time, fairy tales are also loved by children. As Lenin said, "Children naturally like beautiful fairy tales."

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The cradle of fairy tale picture books and children's dreams

summary

Fairy tales are a kind of children's literature. Through rich imagination, exaggeration and symbols, these works create images, reflect life and educate children ideologically. Language is popular and vivid, and stories are often bizarre and fascinating. Fairy tales often adopt anthropomorphic methods, such as flowers, birds, insects, fish, flowers and trees, the whole nature, furniture and toys, etc., which can give life, inject thoughts and emotions and make them personalized.

But there are two kinds of fairy tales, one is created by writers, and the more famous ones are Andersen's fairy tales in Denmark, Hogg's fairy tales in Germany and Wilde's fairy tales in England. The other is spread orally among the people, and then searched and sorted by people who are interested in it. Famous Grimm fairy tales such as Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella are all selected from them.

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Fairy tale is a kind of popular literature with the theme of novel, which is usually created for children. There are many supernatural characters in fairy tales, such as talking animals, elves, fairies, giants, witches and so on. In the writing methods of modern western literature, "fairy tale ending" usually refers to a happy ending, for example, there are princesses and princes in many fairy tales.

Because in many western cultures, fairy tale elements such as demons and witches are often considered to exist in the real world, and fairy tales may become legends and close to epics. Stylistically, the main difference between fairy tales and legends and epics is that fairy tales often add more fictional descriptions of people, events and things to their stories to enhance their storytelling. One example is that the beginning of a story is described as "a long time ago" rather than the specific real time.

In recent centuries, various forms of fairy tales have widely existed in different countries and cultures. Fairy tales can exist orally or in written form, but only in written form can they be handed down, so it is difficult to verify the exact age of fairy tales. However, according to the literary records that can be verified, fairy tales have existed for at least 1000 years.

In the west, early fairy tales are not called "fairy tales" but regarded as the style of short stories. The word "fairy tale" is thought to have been first put forward by the French writer Ms. De Hornoy. Today, the spread of fairy tales is still dominated by words.

In the early days, the audience of "fairy tales" included adults and children. Later, with the appearance of the Grimm's Fairy Tales and other writers' works collected by the Brothers Grimm, the style of fairy tales was formally associated with children, and this relationship deepened.

In the classification of fairy tales, folklore scholars have adopted many different methods, among which Arne-Thompson classification and Vladimir propp's morphological analysis are the most famous.