These feelings are caused by occasionally reading Aesop's fables. Yes, Aesop's fables can be read. It gives us at least three kinds of comfort. First, this is an ancient book. Reading it can enhance our pride in modern civilization. Second, this is a children's book. The more you read it, the more you feel like an adult, which goes beyond those childish opinions. Third, this book is almost all about animals, from animals to people, you see how much it will evolve! We have seen the actions and remarks of many bats and foxes, and we have a great feeling of visiting the poor and asking friends after returning home rich. But poor friends want our help and children want us to teach them, so we read Aesop's fables and feel that there are many shallow opinions that must be corrected.
For example, the story of bats: bats pretend to be birds when they meet birds, and pretend to be beasts when they meet beasts. People are much smarter than bats. He will use the bat method in the opposite direction: among birds, he insists on being a beast, which shows that he is down to earth; In mammals, pretending to be a bird is superb. Show off elegance to soldiers and be a hero to literati; In the upper class, he is a poor and hard-working civilian, but among the civilians, he is a condescending cultural element: this is certainly not a bat, it is just a person.
The story of ants and the popularization of weaving: in winter, ants dry the winter rice; Promoting weaving is starving, borrowing food from ants. The ant said, "You sing and have fun in summer. You deserve to be hungry now! " "This story should have more content. According to Plato's "Phaedrus", he promoted the evolution of knitting and became a poet. According to this inference, the person who sits and watches the poet hungry and refuses to borrow money is undoubtedly an ant. If you starve to death, you will become food for ants. Similarly, a great writer could not support himself before his death, and a large number of people lived on him after his death, such as relatives and friends who wrote memories and missed words, critics and authors who wrote research papers.
The story of the dog and his own shadow: the dog crossed the bridge with meat in his mouth and saw the shadow in the water, thinking it was another dog with meat in his mouth; So I gave up the meat in my mouth and struggled with the shadow, trying to grab the meat from the shadow. As a result, all the meat in my mouth fell out. The original intention of this fable is to abstain from greed, and now it can be applied to other aspects. It is said that everyone needs a mirror, so they can look at themselves at any time and know what they are. However, people who know themselves don't need to look in the mirror at all, and it's useless to look in the mirror for things they don't know-for example, this dog with meat in its mouth will make a hullabaloo about after looking in the mirror, taking its own shadow as the target of attack and barking endlessly. It can be seen that some things are best not to look in the mirror.
Astronomer's story: the astronomer looked at the stars on his back, fell into the well and shouted "help"; Hearing this, the neighbor sighed and said, "Who told him to look only at the heights, regardless of the underground!" " "Just look at the heights, regardless of the result at the foot, sometimes I go down the well, sometimes I go out or step on it. But after going down, I will never say that I accidentally fell, only that I intend to do the investigation and work of my subordinates. For example, this astronomer has a good excuse: sitting on a well and observing the sky. Really, after we went down, our eyes still looked up.
Crow story: God wants to choose the most beautiful bird to be the king of birds. The crow put the peacock's long hair on his body and on his tail, and went to God to choose. Sure enough, he was chosen by God. The other birds were furious and tore off all the feathers inserted in it, still revealing the true colors of crows. In other words: artists are not necessarily the ones with long hair; On the other hand, a bald man is definitely not a scholar or thinker, and his mind is barren. What do you think will happen? This fable did not end there. The crow's borrowed feathers have all been plucked out by others, revealing its true colors. I feel ashamed and angry. I suggest that everyone simply pull out their natural feathers. By then, everyone will be naked, and see what is the difference between a real peacock, a swan and a crow. This method of hiding shame is at least commonly used by human beings.
The story of the cow and the frog: Mother frog summoned up her courage and asked the little frog, "Is the cow as big as me?" The little frog replied, "please don't go up there, or your stomach will burst!" " "This female frog is so stupid! She shouldn't be bigger than the cow, she should be smaller than the cow. Therefore, we have compensation for every kind of defect. Misery is called saving, stupidity is called honesty, meanness is called flexibility, and no talent is called virtue. Therefore, there is no woman who feels unlovable, and there is no man who feels inferior to others. In this way, each other has its own position, and of course it will not be peaceful.
The story of the old woman and the hen: The old woman keeps a hen and lays an egg every day. The old woman is greedy and wants to feed her twice as many eggs every day. Since then, chickens have become fatter and fatter, and they no longer lay eggs-so they are no longer greedy. Aesop was wrong! He should say that big fat people are often narrow-minded.
The story of the fox and the grape: The fox saw the ripe grapes on the vine and desperately wanted to give up, comforting himself by saying, "This grape may still be sour, so don't eat it!" " Even after eating, he would say, "This grape is really sour. "If he is an unsatisfied fox, he said to himself, because the reality is" not ideal ". If he is a very satisfied fox, he says to others, because complaining will prevent others from sharing the sweetness.