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Chinese Fable Stories – The Pig with the White Head

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古代寓言原是民间口头创作,文学体裁的一种。含有讽喻或明显教训意义的故事。它的结构简短。主人公可以是人,可以是动物,也可以是无生物。多借用比喻手法,使富有教训意义的主题或深刻的道理在简单的故事中体现,而还需要自己去理解,思考,这就是和西方寓言的不同之处。

《古代寓言·白头猪》

往时辽东有豕,生子白头,异而献之;行至河东,见豕皆白,怀惭而还。

——《后汉书》

The Pig with the White Head

Once in Liaodong a swineherds sow farrowed a piglet with a white head, and thinking it a prodigy he decided to present it to the court. When he reached Hedong, however, he found that all the pigs there had white heads; so he went sheepishly home.

–The Later Han History

(杨宪益、戴乃迭 译)

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