What Are Fairy Tales?

  Fairy tales is one subject matter of literature that suit children to read, conforming to children's moral characteristics and satisfying their needs.It creates distinctive characteristics by plentiful fancy and exaggerating.It aims to reflect reality and educate persons with tortuous and touching plots and plain words.
  Fairy tales reflects our great desire to seek fineness and consummate.And we can also get lots of knowledge and happiness.

Fairy tales are fictional stories told to young children

A fairy tale is a fictional story that may feature folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, gnomes, and talking animals, and usually enchantments,
often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. In modern-day
parlance, the term is also used to describe something blessed with princesses, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending)[1] or "fairy tale romance", though not all fairy tales end happily. Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story"
can also mean any far-fetched story. Fairy tales commonly attract young
children since they easily understand the archetypal characters in the
story.
In cultures where demons and witches are perceived as real, fairy tales may merge into legendary narratives, where the context is perceived by teller and hearers as having historical actuality. However, unlike legends and epics they usually do not contain more than superficial references to religion and actual places, people, and events; they take place once upon a time rather than in actual times.[2]
Fairy tales are found in oral folktales and in literary form. The
history of the fairy tale is particularly difficult to trace, because
only the literary forms can survive. Still, the evidence of literary
works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for thousands of
years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre; the name "fairy tale" was first ascribed to them by Madame d'Aulnoy.
Literary fairy tales are found over the centuries all over the world,
and when they collected them, folklorists found fairy tales in every
culture. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still
written today.
The older fairy tales were intended for an audience of adults as
well as children, but they were associated with children as early as
the writings of the précieuses; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown stronger with time.
Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways. Among the most notable are the Aarne-Thompson classification system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp.
Other folklorists have interpreted the tales' significance, but no
school has been definitively established for the meaning of the tales.