The story of the tortoise and the hare comes from Aesop's Fables.
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culture
Besides the tortoise and the hare, Chinese children know its fox who calls the grapes sour and its farmer who warms a frozen snake. The idiom 杀鸡取卵 'to kill the hen to get the eggs' is the Chinese form of its goose that laid the golden eggs.
history
Jesuit missionaries put the first of the fables into Chinese in the early 17th century. The title is simply 伊索 'Aesop' plus 寓言, the Chinese word for a fable.
