What does fairy tale mean?

Fairy tale is a fictional story with strong fantasy in children's literature genre. Through rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbols, it shapes images, reflects life and educates children ideologically. Its language is popular and vivid, and its stories are often bizarre and interesting. Historical fairy tales are originally a part of traditional oral folk stories, which are usually told dramatically orally and passed down from generation to generation. Because of this, the development history of fairy tales is difficult to verify. Especially the stories told by early illiterate storytellers, there is usually no written record for future generations to refer to. The earliest fairy tale circulated in written form was in ancient Egypt in 1 300 BC. Since then, fairy tales have appeared in written literary works, such as Cupid and Psyche in the Golden Donkey written by Reus from BC 100 to AD 200 or AD 200 to AD 200. There is a lot of evidence that many stories in later fairy tales are rewritten according to folk stories. These stories are usually based on older folk stories, such as Arabian Nights, vikram and Vampires, and Bell and the Dragon. In addition to these collections, Taoist philosophers in China, such as Liezi and Zhuangzi, also put some fairy tales in their philosophical thoughts in their expressions. From a broader definition, Aesop's Fables (6th century BC) is the first famous collection of fairy tales in the western world. Allusions appear in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spencer's Fairy Tale Queen and Shakespeare's plays. The story of King Lear is thought to have quoted many fairy tales. 16, 17 century, Italian Giovanni Francesco Straparola wrote a novel "A Night of Joy".