Heated discussion?It's time to read the original "Andersen Fairy Tale" ...

Author:Relay Press Time:2022.09.16

Recently, the first trailer video of the live -action movie "Little Mermaid" released by Disney has caused heated discussion among netizens.

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There are a lot of discussions about this version of the little mermaid. Why do you pay so much attention to her? Because the little mermaid is the childhood memories of several generations.

The original book of "Little Mermaid" is "Daughter of the Sea", which comes from the fairy tales "Andersen's fairy tale". This book is the enlightenment of countless children.

Not only the story of the little mermaid, but the classic fairy tale of "Princess on Pea", "Little Girls Selling Match", "The Emperor's New Fit" is still widely quoted and discussed today.

Regarding "Andersen's Fairy Tale", the famous children's literary writer Peng Yi said in "World Paintings Book Reading and Classic":

"When you are a child, you like to read it. When you become an adult, you still like to read it, and you often read it."

How to read "Andersen Fairy Tale"? Where is its unique charm? Let's take a look at Teacher Peng Yan's interpretation!

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For more than 170 years, the fairy tales named "Daughter of the Sea" (literal translation should be "Little Mermaid"), I do not know how many girls in the world.

She once again set her vague sight to the prince, and then jumped from the boat to the sea, and she felt that her body was melting into a bubble. Now the sun has risen from the sea. The sun was soft and warmly on the cold foam, because the little mermaid did not feel perish. She saw the bright sun, and at the same time, there were countless transparent, beautiful creatures flying on her ...

After reading this, the little girl did not cry.

How can children do not sympathize with the fate of the little mermaid! The little mermaid is so pitiful. In order to get the love of the prince and an immortal soul, how much sacrifice she made!

She first let the witch cut off her tongue, lost a wonderful voice, and became a dumb that "neither can sing nor can talk"; then drank the potion of the witch, and suffered "as if there was a knife with a knife on both sides split away. The pain of her slender body ", lost the fishtail, every step" seemed to walk on the awl and the blade "... But when he came to the end, the prince still fell in love with another princess. Finally, as the witch prediction, she became. It became a foam on the water.

The movie "Little Mermaid" 1992

Perhaps its author is afraid that the children are too sad, and the fairy tale leaves a warm tail. The little mermaid did not disappear like a bubble, but rose towards the sky.

"Who will I go?" The little mermaid asked.

Other voices said, "Go to the sky in the sky! Three hundred years later, when we do our best to finish all the good deeds we may do, we can get an immortal soul, and we can share all human eternal happiness. ""

At this time, there was another voice whispering: "We may not have to wait so long! We flew into human housing invisibly, there were some children in it. Every day, if we find a good child ... "

Whose voice is this? Will it be to write this romantic and beautiful Andersen's own voice?

The movie "Little Mermaid" 1992

Andersen has a habit that often writes him into his fairy tale. For example, the students who "will tell some very beautiful stories and cut out some interesting patterns in" Xiaoda's Flowers "must be Andersen.

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Over the past few years, only he can fly into the home of millions of children like a small woman who has become a small mermaid, and broadcast the fairy tale seeds into their hearts.

Now, there are children where there are Andersen. He was the king of fairy tales more than a hundred years ago, and he was still the king of fairy tales more than a hundred years, and no one could surpass him.

Andersen's fairy tales have a characteristic, that is, when you are a child, you like to read it. When you become an adult, you still like to read it, and often read it often, just like Philip Michell The stars say in this way:

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"As long as the reader is overcome the prejudice, he does not think that Andersen is written for children, and turning over his fairy tales, he will find a source of joy that never exhausted, because these fairy tales have classical literature character. Readers start to read one The fairy tales are willing to read it; he wants to turn it to the next page and keep reading it. He reads a article and wants to read the second article. After reading all the fairy tales, then he is more and more admired by Andersen's talents. Looking back, reading his fairy ta by article. Every time he reads, he will find some new ideas, some witty or ironic, or the wonderful expression of previously ignored. Although many stories happen in Denmark, But they are also widely welcomed in far away countries like Japan and India, which is enough to show that readers can enjoy them without special historical geographical knowledge. "

Indeed, even Andersen himself admitted in the autobiography "My Fairy Tale Life" that his fairy tales were not only written for children, but also written for adults:

"My text is exactly when I tell the story with the children. I gradually concluded that people of each age group like this style of text. Children like those who are described in the fairy tales. On the other hand, adults are more interested in the profound meaning hidden behind the story. Turn fairy tales into readings that children and adults can see. Open the door of fairy tales and understand the spirit of fairy tales. Therefore, when I published the third new fairy tale set, I deleted the fairy tales of the phrase "to the children." "Fairy Tale" refers to his first fairy tale collection, named "The Fairy Tale to Talk to the Children", and in the third fairy tale collection, not only changed the title of the book to "New Fairy Tale", even the forewords were all Change to "adult readers".

The movie "Little Mermaid" 1992

The Soviet scholar, Irawa, once wrote a "Biography of Andersen". The book tells such a story that does not know whether it is true or false:

"On April 2, 1875, Andersen received a notice that the pledged matters for the monument to build a monument had been over, and a sketch was sent by the sculptor. There was a statue of a fairy tale family on it, surrounded by a large group of children surrounded by a large group of children. . Andersen denied this sketch. 'My fairy tales are not so written for their children, it is better to write for adults!' He was very excited, 'Later, whenever I read my fairy tale, the children were lying down On my shoulders, I can't stand it. Why should I draw something I didn't have? '"

Is Andersen who really said that in the first few months of his death, it is no longer possible to verify, but one thing is certain, that is, the shortest 156 fairy tales are included in "The Complete Works of Andersen's Fairy Tale". In fact, most of them have dual meaning. Children have the understanding of children, and adults have the understanding of adults.

Speaking of which, this may also be the greatest charm of Andersen's fairy tales that attract repeated reading. Once the children grow up, they can understand the emotions and thoughts of adults who do not understand when they are childhood.

For example, "The Daughter of the Sea", a naive child may be moved by the pursuit of love for the pursuit of love.

The movie "Little Mermaid" 1992

And an adult who walks through the bumpy life may be as Elison Luli in "Forever Boys and Girls: From Cinderella to Harry Potter":

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"See it as a warning of self -sacrifice and no hope."

There are a few of them. Don't talk about children. Even ordinary adults may not read their symbolic meaning, I don't know what it is talking about, such as "Goddess of New Century".

So, Andersen, the son of a poor shoemaker, how did you write so many immortal fairy tales?

Obviously not as full of poetry as he said:

"The seeds of fairy tales are scattered in my heart field. Just a flowing water, a while, a wind, a sun, and a drop of bitter wine can germinate and bloom."

The early fairy tales of Andersen, such as "Fighting Box", "Little Klaus and Great Klaus", "Princess on Pea", etc., all came from folk stories that he had heard when he had heard:

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"As a child, listening to fairy tales was my greatest fun; many fairy tales still have a deep impression in my mind. Many of the fairy tales are not known, or no one has heard of it at all ..."

Jenst, who is surnamed with Andersen, described Andersen in the biography of Andersen to describe Andersen with a drawer full of stories. This drawer should be his childhood memory.

But he just learned inspiration from folk stories, boldly innovated, letting reality integrates fantasy, and created his own fairy tales, instead of collecting, sorting and rewriting folk fairy tales like Green brothers.

In addition, he will also look for materials from other literary works, such as "The Emperor's New Instance" we are familiar with, and its basic background and plot are taken from an ancient Spanish medieval fairy tale set. Of course, more fairy tales belong to Andersen's original.

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We like Andersen's fairy tales. One is because he was humble. Although he later succeeded in the ugly duckling in the famous fairy tale "Ugly Duck" about his "struggle", as Jenst Andersen said, "He I have never forgotten that I have a connection with ordinary people, folk stories, and my childhood that I spent next to the river. " People in the cultural circle can understand the most basic emotions of human beings. The second is because he attaches great importance to children, using children's perspectives and speaking tones to tell stories, breaking the tradition of fairy tales, creating a new method of storytelling.

Before him, children did not enter the vision of writers at all. No one paid attention to their lives and respect their nature, but he did the opposite. He says:

"When I was creating these stories, it was like I was telling a child to tell these fairy tales. My reader was the child in front of me."

Therefore, Danish literary critic Brandus will say in "Fairy Tale Poet Andersen" that "Andersen is a person who discovered children in Denmark", and Jenst Andersen said that Andersen fairy tale "" garden in many centuries of adult art from several centuries of adult arts It is liberated. " Andersen's fairy tales are the same as Green's fairy tale. They are one of the most read fairy tales in the world. But I do n’t know if you have discovered it. The wicked people who are punished in Green's fairy tale, the little protagonist, such as Princess White Snow and Cinderella, will suffer a little bit, but they are generally not tortured. Sweet, almost every story will end with "they have lived a happy life".

The movie "Snow White and Seven Twent Man" 1937

But Andersen's fairy tales are not. Not only is he unhappy and unhappy at the end, the little protagonist will even be more cruel than the witch, miserable and terrifying.

Needless to say, the little mermaid in "The Daughter of the Sea", the girl who loves vanity in "Red Shoes" has been punished and kept dancing, walking through the thorns and wild roses in the dark night, stabbing blood and DC In the end, she also let her sister cut off her pair of red shoes.

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Andersen has written several autobiography in his life, one of which starts with one autobiography:

"I can be called a beautiful and touching fairy tales in my life.

However, today's researchers have found that his autobiography is not true. He has always beautified himself and created a eternal "ugly duckling" myth.

For example, American scholar Yaqi Woolshirag said in Hans Christian Andersen: a life of a storyteller said that he is a person who loves vanity and arrogance. Fantasy, people who are angry, anxious, painful, and depression and greedy ambitions.

Philip Michell holds the same view in "Danish Literature Stars":

"It is not appropriate to depict Hans Christian Andersen as a kind of gentleman who dedicated to fairy tale creation. On the contrary, Andersen is a poet who is irritable, energetic, excited, and too much to consider his own interests. Because he was in trouble in his life. In the first half of his writer's career, he was primarily concerned about his novels and dramas in literature. "

However, no matter what kind of people today ’s researchers have restored Anderson, he has a word but said it is not wrong:

"Let me tell you, I hope to win the next generation of love with my work."

It is not hope, he did it. He used his story full of stories to win generations of love.

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Author: Peng Yi