What are the characteristics of fables?

1. Fables are generally short in length, concise in language, simple in structure but extremely expressive. 2. Distinctive satire and education. Use metaphors to reflect educational themes or profound truths in simple stories. Most of the theme ideas use this to compare the other, the distance, the present and the smallness. The struggle between snipe and clam, Mr. Dong Guo and wolf are famous fables handed down from ancient China. 3. The fiction of this story. The "protagonist" is more anthropomorphic animals, plants or other things or phenomena in nature. 4. Commonly used techniques are: metaphor, exaggeration, symbol, etc.