Abstract:
The pre-Qin fables matured and flourished not only with the appearance of large quantities of remarkble works, but also with the following charactersitics: To start with, fables got established as a separate form of literature and spread far and wide. Secondly, typical fable characters began to appear. Thirdly, special collections of fables including Forest of Tales and Treasure House of Tales. Lastly, some great compilers of the pre-Qin fables, such as Mo Zhai, Zhuang Zhou, and Han Fei, and Han Fei in particular, rose who collected, rewrote, wrote, and utilized fables outstandingly.
