Tongshu calendar: How did the story of "the king growing donkey ears" came from?

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This illustration comes from "Shakespeare Drama Scenes for Young Man" published in 1885, depicting a scene in "The Dream of Midsummer Night".The "donkey head" in the illustration is the weaving of the drama in the story.

In the rehearsal gap, Polton turned into a donkey head by the elf Parker during the dressing.Unfortunately, the first person he woke up in the Empress Deni was him, so he fell in love with the "donkey head" Bolton, so he added a lot of jokes to the entire story.

According to expert research, Polton has become a prototype of the "donkey head", which is derived from Ovid's "Transformers".Legend has it that the Sun God Apollo and Mu God Pan held a music competition to invite the king Madas to be a referee.Midas judged Pan win and annoyed Apollo.To punish Midas, Apollo turned his ears into a pair of donkey ears.This is actually the origin of the story of "The Kings growing the donkey ears".

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