Karen, a little girl, likes red shoes because she has the vanity to love beauty. Mother wore red shoes at the funeral, and her adoptive mother took her to the church to wear red shoes, regardless of opposition. Her foster mother bought her a pair of patent leather red dancing shoes like a princess, and she was very proud.
One day, after a strange veteran pointed at her shoes, Karen couldn't help showing off her beautiful red shoes and trying to dance. As a result, she danced uncontrollably until people around her took off her shoes. Since then, the shoes have been sealed. But she still wants to wear it from time to time.
My foster mother is ill and needs her care in bed, but she still thinks about red dancing shoes, and finally she can't help but turn them out of the box and put them on for dancing. After the dance, she is still dancing, and her feet are all out of control. She danced day and night and found that she couldn't stop. Jumping over fields, forests and graves, I heard an angel curse her: "Dance in your red shoes until you are white and cold, until your body shrinks into a skeleton."
Karen jumped at the door of an executioner and asked the executioner to cut off her foot. After the executioner cut off her foot, he gave her a Shuang Mu foot and crutches, and taught her a hymn sung by death row inmates. Karen completed her confession with wooden feet and crutches, seeking inner peace.
But the cut foot is still dancing. Karen rushed back to her foster mother's house and found that her foster mother had died of a serious illness. After waking up, she wanted to go to church to confess, but her dancing feet blocked her way to church twice in a row. Finally, when Karen read the hymn devoutly at home, she saw the angel again. After a long confession, the angel showed her the way to heaven.
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Red dancing shoes is a famous fairy tale by Danish poet Andersen. This story teaches us not to covet vanity, not to care too much about these superficial things, but to live in a down-to-earth way and find the meaning of our lives.
Andersen explained that the story originated from an incident he experienced when he was a child. According to his records, a wealthy female customer gave his father a red silk scarf and asked him to make a pair of dancing slippers for her daughter. His father made it with great care, using leather in addition to silk scarves, but female customers said that the shoes made were rubbish. She said that her father didn't do anything but ruin her silk scarf. "In that case," said his father, "I might as well destroy my leather." Then his father cut his shoes in front of the female customers.
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Red dancing shoes-Baidu encyclopedia