Fairy Tales

What is a fairy tale?  If you could be a part of any fairy tale, which would you choose? Who would you be? Why? 

A fairy tale is a supernatural story. All the fairy tales have the simple wording choice because those stories are primary for children. However, that does not mean people besides children can not read those stories, fairy tales are significant for all people because the tales reveal not only diverse culture, but they also teach some meaningful lesson about the world and society. For example the Little Red Riding Hood, a story that relate to a girl who wears a red hood and wants to visit her grandma, but there is an evil and malicious wolf who desires to eat the girl and the grandma. The morals of this tale are that don't ever listen to any strangers, do not be another little red riding hood, and do not tell any malevolent lie to other people. Every fairy tales have their own happy ending no matter what, but they are also some depraved version of fairy tales with same stories but different ending which usually are tragic. If I could be a part of any fairy tale, I would choose the Three Little Pigs. This story is actually a fable but it's similar to the fairy tales. I chose this because when I was young, I did not read that many fairy tales like other children usually do. However, in China, we have many fables and the Three Little pigs is the most prominent one. I would like to be the youngest pig among those three because he is the only one who is not indolent and welling to help his brothers. The moral of this story is no pain no gain. If you work harder, in someday the rewards will come to you. 

The Origin of Ants

What is your interpretation of the Chinese folktale, "The Origin of Ants?" What do you think the moral of this story is? Do you like it? Why or why not?

The Origin of Ants is a Chinese folktale, which the whole story has nothing to do with the ants except in the end of the story. I interpret this Chinese folktale as a story of lying, gaining with no pain, and fearing of telling the truth. The man in the story is a coward; he does not work hard to support his family. He also lies to the emperor, empress, his neighbors, and even his wife. I think the moral of this story is one lie leads to another (lie) and after you lie, the punishment is indeed waiting for you. There is a famous saying that related to this story: a lie lives on more lies. Because he makes up his superpower by lying, he continues to lie until he faces the consequences of his mistakes. In the end, the chickens have come home to roost. Even though the story has some moral for folk, people in general, I do not get why the title is called The Origin of Ants instead of A Lie Lives on More Lies. All in all, this is an ample folktale.