This answer is a little deep, and I personally recommend that I collect it and read it many times to double the efficacy!
Before answering the question that fairy tales are fake and why they are still told to children. Let me start by talking to you about the three major children's art activities – nursery rhymes, stories and role-playing.
These three children's art activities are the foundation of the entire history of human culture and art.
Nursery rhymes pay more attention to the pronunciation of vowels, and we hear nursery rhymes that are very catchy. Many nursery rhymes are based on children's daily words, because children are closely connected to their hearts and emotions. Therefore, when nursery rhymes are further developed into lyric poetry and **, it is also a presentation of the development process of human culture.
The story pays more attention to the pronunciation of consonants, which are human observations and imitations of the world. For example, ancient humans would imitate the sounds of birds to catch birds, and this process is human observation and reflection on the objective world. The story was further developed into a narrative poem.
Role-playing is the basis of human division of labor and cooperation, and it is also the most important process for the development of human empathy. When children are young, we often observe children playing house, and this process promotes good socialization development of children. The further development of role-playing is the theatre, which is the highest artistic activity that combines all this.
These three children's art activities are very important for the healthy development of children's body and mind!
The concept of tales of archetypes relates to the entire philosophical outlook of ancient Greece and the evolution of ancient Greek mythology. I suggest you read the book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" to have a better understanding of the archetype proposed by Jung.
The meaning of archetypes cannot be directly realized by us, and it often needs to be transformed into archetypal images before it can be consciously perceived by us. Thus, we can think of archetypal imagery as a symbolic representation of archetypes. For example, birth, marriage, death and separation, etc., which characters are used in our cultural stories to present these typical scenes.
When I read Naoko Anbo's "Until the Flower Beans Are Cooked", the tengu is used as a spiritual guide for the afterlife, which is also one of the archetypes of death.
It is the characters in the story who are the archetypes that are hidden in our daily lives, and even the more essential truths behind the archetypes. Stories have become an important medium to relieve children's inner stress and allow injured children to digest these external injuries on their own.
The question itself reflects a very important philosophical idea, Descartes' duality. This dualism comes from the dualism of good and evil, just like the dualism of truth and falsehood in which the question looks at the story. However, things and people are not black and white, but the superposition and multi-layering of intermediate forms, where a person does something that we look evil, but when we really understand the motives of the other person, we will find the hidden kindness of the other person.
The story is the existence of this intermediate form, and each character is not a single and isolated person, like in a Japanese fairy tale, the fox is actually the embodiment of wisdom and kindness;In Western fairy tales, foxes are the embodiment of wit and cunning (cf. "Runaway Tortillas"). You can compare the different meanings of the same role in different countries, why do we have these different perceptions?
It is in the process of reading stories that children learn about the evolution of human consciousness, but this exploration process is not everyone's intellectual cognition!
If you are willing to use artistic methods and warm life with life, can we walk together, sing songs together, tell stories, role-play, play happily together, treat yourself and your children gently, and make this day and night more beautiful. I'm Li Jiaying, the @艺术 teacher, and I look forward to seeing you.ps: Thank you for the affirmation given to me by the three likes, I will work hard to create better works to share with you.