Zhuang Zi

Fables are an ancient literary genre with a long history and strong vitality. Although most of them are short in form, they are rich in connotation. Most of the ancient Chinese fables are based on character stories, with profound and penetrating reasoning and containing a lot of life wisdom. The creation of fables was most prosperous in the pre-Qin period in China, and many fable authors were world-class thinkers. The fables in "Zhuangzi" and "Liezi" are imaginative and rich in language, expressing the Taoist ideas of valuing the way, valuing emptiness, equalizing all things, and being free and unrestrained; the fables in "Han Feizi" are concise and accurate in language, expressing the Legalist ideas of changing laws according to the times and severe punishments; the fables in "Strategies of the Warring States" are extravagant in style and magnificent in momentum. They are flexible in response to major events in diplomacy, domestic affairs, and military affairs, and often achieve the effect of turning danger into safety. "Greater China Library·Selected Ancient Chinese Fables (Chinese-English Comparison)" has selected many fables from these famous pre-Qin classics, and also includes other excellent fables of later generations, with a total of 121 works selected. They are…