Foreign fairy tales

Pandora is the first earth woman in Greek mythology.

After Prometheus stole the skyfire from the world, Zeus, the Lord God, ordered God to mold a beautiful young girl out of clay, named Pandora, which means "a woman with all talents", gave her a gift box, and then betrothed her to Epimetheus, Prometheus' younger brother (meaning "the latter").

Epimetheus took the gift box regardless of taboos, and Pandora took the opportunity to open it, so all kinds of bad habits, disasters and diseases immediately flew out from it. There is only one beautiful thing left in the box-hope. But before hope flew out, Pandora closed the box forever.

Pandora's box is used as a metaphor for the root of disaster.

2. imminent danger

Damocles was a favorite of Dionysus, a tyrant in Greek mythology. He often said that the emperor was blessed to please them.

On one occasion, Dionysus Hughes asked him to sit on the emperor's throne, with a sword tied with only a horse's hair on his head, and told him that although he boarded the throne, the sword might fall at any time. The emperor was not blessed, but he always had something on his mind.

People often use this allusion to describe a potential crisis that may occur at any time.

3. Muse, the goddess of literature, art, music and art.

Muse is the general name of nine goddesses of literature and science in Greek mythology. They are all daughters of God and the goddess of memory. Headed by Apollo, the god of music and poetry, they are in charge of history, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, dance, epic, love poetry, ode and astronomy respectively.

Ancient Greek poets and singers turned to the Muse for inspiration. Later, people often used "muse" to describe literature, writing and inspiration.

5. Pygmalion

Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus in Greek mythology. He hates women and decides never to get married. He carved a beautiful ivory statue with magical skills and fell in love with her.

He caressed her like a wife, dressed her and begged God to let her be his wife. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statues and married them.

"pygmalion effect" was later used in educational psychology, also known as "expectation effect" or "Rosenthal effect", which means that teachers have different expectations of students and apply different methods to them, so students are affected differently.

5. judas kiss

Judas is one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ in the Bible. Although Jesus preached a new road and won the support of the people, it aroused the hatred of Jewish elders and priests.

They bought Judas with 30 silver coins and asked him to help identify Jesus. When they went to Kimani Garden to catch Jesus, Judas pretended to meet him, hug him and kiss him. Jesus was immediately arrested and later crucified.

People use "judas kiss" as a metaphor for shameful betrayal.