Reflections on Aesop's fables of goats and shepherds

After reading Aesop's fables, I couldn't put it down and had a lot of thoughts. I have been thinking about the content of this book, and the characters in it come into my eyes from time to time.

Aesop's Fables was written by Aesop in ancient Greece. He is a legend. What he wrote was the criticism, enlightenment and lessons of a phenomenon in life.

Let's take some fables that you are most familiar with as examples.

The fable "Wolf and Lamb" tells that the wolf wants to eat the lamb and argues with the lamb in various ways. Exposed the darkness of society at that time.

As a result of the fable "tortoise and rabbit race", everyone knows that the tortoise won. Thanks to his unremitting efforts, he won the victory. The rabbit is arrogant. If you underestimate others, you always think you are the best. In fact, it is good to have confidence, but don't be too confident, because that is not confidence, but pride.

What impressed me most was the story Coward. He told a story about a man who was timid and had poor living conditions, but was greedy for money and always wanted to get something for nothing.

One day, he went up the mountain to cut wood. Tired, I went home with firewood on my back On a path at the foot of the mountain, he saw a golden lion. He didn't dare to touch it, thinking: Is it alive or a statue? The lion did not move or make a sound. It must be a statue. God gave it to me. Seeing that I am so poor, I want to sell it at a good price.

He looked around to make sure there was no one, so he grabbed the lion's front paws and back paws, but it was too heavy to lift. He seems to be very clever, thinking: many hands make light work? I want to go back and let my family move with me. Afterwards, he ran home.

By the time he called all the men, women and children in the family, the golden lion had disappeared.

He told people that they must be decisive and not delay. Otherwise, everything will be terrible. There is a saying that "efficiency is money". Pay attention to efficiency. If things go slowly, nothing can be done well. This is called "nothing".

The man who broke the idol is the most interesting story I think. Let's listen to it.

There was a poor man who worked as a groom in a big family. This family is very rich. He asked his master: how can I get rich?

The master thinks this problem is very complicated, like a math problem that can never be solved, but he seems to understand very well: "As long as you buy an idol and put it at home, you can become rich." The groom bought it.

After a few days, the rich began to eat, drink, gamble and spend all their money. But he hid a lot of gold coins in the idol before he died.

He was dying, so he called his son to his side and said, "You don't want to sell the gods, you'd rather not sell them."

The son thought his father was talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously. But he's broke. This idol was the only valuable idol in the family, so I sold it to the groom.

The groom left him at home. A year later, he is still not rich. In a rage, the groom threw the idol. At this time, all the gold coins came out. He said angrily, "when I respect you, you pretend." I beat you down, and then you know how to help me. "

Truth: If you want to make a fortune, you must work hard and earn money with your own hands and brain, so that you can make a fortune, and you can't rely on others.

I also want to tell you a story-Donkeys and Horses. In ancient times, there was always a war in a country, so people had to keep a war horse at home and prepare to ride it during the war.

A young man has a very good war horse and an ordinary donkey. This war horse eats well every day. Moreover, donkeys don't do heavy work every day, and they don't eat as well as war horses.

The donkey didn't understand, so he asked the horse, why do you eat well and don't have to work? And I'm tired every day? "

"I don't know why my master is so kind to me, but I know that every donkey has to do heavy work." The donkey said nothing.

In a few days, there will be another war. The battlefield is close to the young man's house, and the young man rides a horse to fight.

The donkey ran to see it. He saw everyone fighting. At this time, its owner was hacked to death, and the horse was very sad beside it. The enemy couldn't see the past and hacked the horse to death.

When the donkey came home, it was very sad. Knowing why the master was so kind to the horse, he let it go.

Behind the comfortable life, there will always be danger, and the price is really too high, while the busy life seems hard but stable.

Isn't this story too interesting? Do you want to listen to another song? Then I will tell a story about a shepherd and a donkey.

A shepherd was hunting when he found a little wolf. Seeing that it is pitiful, take it home and raise it with the dog. When they grow up, they take care of these sheep.

One day, a wolf came and took away a sheep at night. The wolf went after it, but the sheep had been killed. It ate it with the wolf. Only then did it find that mutton was so delicious.

When he got home, he didn't want to eat anything. Another day, the wolf came to steal the sheep, and the domestic wolf pretended to chase the wolf and ran out to eat the sheep with the wild wolf.

When the wild wolf didn't come for several days, the wolf brought the sheep to eat with the dog. All this was seen by the shepherd, and he killed the wolf the next day.

People can't believe evil things. There is a saying that a leopard cannot change his spots. That's true.

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Aesop's Fables

The original title is Esop's Story Integration, and its story is circulated among the people and written in the third century BC. According to legend, the story was written by an Ethiopian black slave, and "Aesop" is a homonym for "Ethiopia".

Aesop, born in the 6th century BC, is an ancient Greek fable. It is said that he was a slave, later released and finally killed for "blasphemy".

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Aesop's fables are concise, vivid, imaginative, philosophical, ideological and artistic. Among them, the farmer and snake, fox and grape, wolf and lamb, tortoise and rabbit race, shepherd and wolf, farmer and his children have become household names all over the world.

This book has the largest number of readers in the world and has the greatest influence on western ethics and political thought. The essence of eastern and western folk literature and the crystallization of the wisdom of working people. The book 100 which has influenced human culture is one of the oldest fables in the world.

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