In China, we have a long history of reading and understanding. Gorgeous names like Cinderella and Snow White may remind many people of the feeling that they are still willing to believe in that romantic and beautiful thing.
However ... the truth is often beyond imagination, and sometimes you still can't believe your eyes.
Re-evaluate and read Grimm's fairy tales because I saw a song in a story in the fairy tales:
My mother killed me,
My father ate me,
My sister, little Marilyn,
Pick up all my bones,
Wrapped in a silk handkerchief,
Buried under the juniper tree.
I'm so excited after reading it. It's a pity to put it in the children's counter.
Let's look at the story about this song.
A man died his wife, took a boy and married a woman. Soon after, the woman gave birth to a daughter and began to hate boys. Then cut off his head with an axe and make soup for his father. Dad ate all the soup and meat and spit the bones under the table. The little girl who knew the truth picked up her brother's bone with tears and buried it under the juniper tree outside the door.
If the story ends here, it will be a child's tragedy at most, but look at the later development, the boy's soul has turned into a bird, propagating his experiences everywhere, and "beating his stepmother into paste" with a stone mill obtained from people who like it to sing. Seeing this, I finally couldn't help laughing. It was really cruel to a lovely dead child. This hamlet-style story is more familiar to Germans.
There is also Cinderella, which everyone is familiar with and likes very much. Adapted into a romantic love story of glass shoes and roses. What are the dark plots?
Sandra herself is a taciturn girl, so she is often laughed at by her two sisters. But please note that this kind of similar scene is not uncommon. In today's world, that kind of rustic introverted girl will still be ridiculed from time to time, right? And those two sisters just "smiled" and didn't stretch out their hands to hit her, and those who threw rags to wash her ... Haven't you been bullied by powerful seniors in the company? But isn't it too serious that these two sisters were finally pecked blind by birds? But if the object is my boss ... and I feel comfortable thinking about it, is this the "quiet happiness" brought by fairy tales?
And the details of cutting off the heel and putting it in the shoe. It's really funny. Did German women really do this because they loved beauty or love? Only in this way can we write such vivid and interesting things. Today, in the 2 1 century, there are still girls who put their feet of size 38 into beautiful shoes of size 37 in order to attend a ball attended by their sweetheart. Isn't it cute?
The darkest thing is that Cinderella lost a shoe when she escaped from the dance.
In the traditional custom of Germany, a girl jumped over the fire. If a girl drops her shoes when she jumps over the fire, it means that she is no longer a virgin. And our miss Cinderella finally left the dance in her shoes, so western book reviewers thought it was a hint that Cinderella had a relationship with the prince that night ... Ah, this is really something children read, it is so subtle. Without expert guidance, I'm afraid I can't understand it by now.
However, it makes sense to think about it. Isn't one-night stand at the dance very common in Hollywood movies? The bizarre solution to turn one-night stand into marriage can only be accepted without complaint in fairy tales.
Second set
Because of the unique charm of Andersen's language style, he has always favored one over the other for a long time. Looking at Grimm's fairy tales again now does not mean that he has moved on, but that he has expanded his horizons in many ways and angles after growing into a middle-aged man.
From western horror novels to modern ghost stories, few people talk so much about dismembering the human body. Even if there are, they will focus on some objective descriptions of the atmosphere or the psychology of the characters. However, there are many such shocking scenes in Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales for Children. It is absolutely amazing that the author has nothing to do with himself and has no self-reflection to take such a plot for granted. In addition to the sophistry that "there is no need for children to know why this is happening, just let them know", perhaps it is because of the background of the law house that they are used to this kind of thing.
mother goose
Look at this paragraph:
"They dragged another girl, already drunk, didn't listen to her cry. They drank her wine and their hearts were broken when they drank it with ... girls. Then they took off her beautiful clothes, put her on the table, cut her beautiful body into pieces and sprinkled some salt. Poor fiancee is shivering behind the bucket. She could clearly see what fate the robbers had arranged for her. A robber found the murdered girl wearing a ring on her little finger, but he couldn't take it off at once, so he grabbed an axe and cut off her finger. Unexpectedly, my fingers jumped high and flew over the vat, which happened to fall into my fiancee's arms. " (The Robber's fiancee) Except for the lovely description of the last finger flying, all the other scenes are creepy, but when people shout "How did this happen?", what they really want to say is that the brothers Grimm have leisure and ambition to join the imagination that meets the fairy tale standards in the case of the victim. really
There is a more lovely description about the thick nerves:
"There is a big bloody basin in the middle of the room, where there are some chopped dead people. Next to it stands a wooden anvil with a shiny axe across it. She was scared to death ... [The wizard] pushed the girl to the ground, grabbed her hair, dragged her into the blood room, put her head on the wooden anvil, cut her with an axe, and let her bleed all over the floor. ..... she saw ... her two dear sisters were dismembered and thrown into the basin! " Cute at the back: "(Girls) summon up courage, put their limbs together, put their heads, bodies, hands and feet together ... Finally, the two girls opened their eyes and came back to life." The bloody description in front is familiar to anyone who is familiar with Grimm's fairy tales, but it is the following paragraph that can really be the source of inspiration. It is completely irresponsible to make it up to the extreme, and it seems that the protagonist thinks that the dead can be resurrected after splicing the bodies. Although it is a lovely little princess mentality, I still can't help but worry: when it was first released, there was a statement at the back of this story: Please don't imitate children.
In addition to this cruel and bloody description, there is Brothers Grimm ... The concept of love and hate is extremely strong and clear.
In the story of the juniper tree, the stepmother was "smashed into a paste (really cute, hilarious)", but as I said before, it was too harsh in Cinderella's story, just laughing at a dirty girl. ...
What still rankles is the punishment of the children of the Virgin Mary. The girl just didn't admit that she had opened the door to the Virgin Mary and didn't hurt anyone, but she was kicked out by the Virgin Mary and was punished for not speaking. Later, she married the king, and the Virgin harassed her again, or made her admit that she opened the door. Girls can't talk, so they take their children with them. The next year, she came back and did the same thing. After being rejected, she took her second child with her. In the third year, she came back and killed the third child ... God, what is this world? Didn't you just deny opening the door? Later, the girl was misunderstood as a monster that would eat people and would be burned to death. When she was tied to the post, she finally shed tears and miraculously made a sound, saying, "Yes, Maria, I opened that door." The words sound just fell, the queen (? ) appeared, returned the child to her, and said kindly, "Those who repent and turn over a new leaf will be forgiven."
Although it was a perfect ending, I still broke out in a cold sweat. If the girl finally refuses to speak, will she really die like this? And the reason is because she didn't admit to the virgin that she opened the door where she didn't do any bad behavior at all?
Having said that, it is clear that the Virgin Mary is angry only because she "dared to lie to me", but she has done such a tough and overbearing thing. Which woman in the world can match this willfulness?
Ah, it is your mother who has eternal authority and glory. amen ...
Episode 3
The protagonist is still a fairy tale. ....
As early as watching Song of Nibelungen, there was a sigh that "His Highness Greenhill is fine everywhere, but his mouth is a little broken". Finally, because of this small shortcoming, it caused an earth-shattering tragedy. As the "spiritual source of the Germanic nation", this epic has a profound and far-reaching impact on the Brothers Grimm.
Look at the poor girl in the fairy tale. The girl in The Virgin's Child was fined five years for not talking because she refused to open the door. In Twelve Brothers, my sister couldn't speak for seven years to save her brother, but in Six Swan, it was six years. These women were either robbed of their children or misunderstood by their husbands, but they all had inexplicable reasons not to talk.
The weirdest and funniest thing is that the prince in the iron stove chose three places to marry a king's daughter, and then abandoned her because the princess said more than three words to him and disappeared!
Laugh ~ It seems that Ziggy Filit's tragedy was really chewed up by German men.
In addition to this punishment of "no talking", the more realistic punishment in Germany at that time was "dancing to death in red shoes". In the famous Snow White and Love Roland, bad women all die like this.
Speaking of such cruel things as dancing on a hot soldering iron, I can't help thinking of Ling. She didn't like the Big Dipper fist at first, but she was always moved by the girl who walked on the iron stage baked by fire. She naturally hopes to live a happy life with Ajian, but at the last minute she realizes that she likes Bart, and the final outcome of "Let Life Burn in the Battle" is really frustrating. ...
Looking back on Grimm's fairy tales, speaking of Snow White, a fairy tale that has been widely disputed in the West in recent years, it is really an alternative avant-garde literary work with various postmodern characteristics. Is there really no experimental troupe to adapt it?
Like the well-known mother-daughter "Oedipus Complex" or Snow White's dark and insidious personality, you have made a very thorough and in-depth description, but the prince of necrophilia still makes people want to stop.
Not only should we take Snow White back to the castle after seeing her body, but what's even more amazing is the setting of "eat beside Snow White's crystal coffin every day, or we won't be able to eat". All this is correct. After all, it's something you like, and it's understandable to stick to it or not, but the next scene unexpectedly reveals the prince's adaptability, bold and fearless spirit, and the spirit of expanding his infatuation with his interests.
When he saw the dead body suddenly sitting up, he was not afraid, but very happy to express his love. "You are by my side ... I like you very much. Can you come back to the castle with me? " This ..... is really a professional who has in-depth research on corpses. Can you quickly tell that the princess woke up instead of other third-class creatures? It is his royal highness, the prince, who is extremely noble and brave. At this point, the servants and followers around him have fled without a trace.
According to the description in the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, the princess didn't wake up because the coffin hit a tree, but was scolded by the prince for carrying its slave day and night, flogging its back resentfully, and then spitting out poisonous apples.
The fourth episode
Finally entered the journey of solving puzzles, of course, this may also be a dark sophistry.
Anyway, it's just chatting.
If you want to explore Grimm's fairy tales in depth, you really have to mention the old saying-the song of Nibelungen.
I decided to read this book at first, which was translated and introduced by People's Publishing House at the beginning of liberation, but it is absolutely rare in today's world. Of course, it's because of the story of the exile group composed of The Annual Salary Thief, Enemy of Family and Morality and Immorality of Walking, but after reading it, I still can't help but compare it with two Greek epics. I feel that my love is better than the latter.
The grandeur of the story content and the ups and downs of plot and emotion are no longer under the latter, but the unreasonable motive of doing evil and killing people is more suitable for personal dark taste.
From the beginning of the story, Prince Nederland killed the dragon until the former Queen Nederland was beheaded. Among them, many people died, and the cause of death was difficult to distinguish. Even the war with Xiongnu was more exciting than the Greek epic. However, "you" can only become the spiritual wealth of the Nordic nation and even the Germanic nation.
This really goes against Christian teachings or human spiritual aspirations.
Now we can go back to Grimm's fairy tales.
Grimm's fairy tales are collections collected by the Grimm brothers after their travels in various regions of Germany, so the Grimm brothers are not authors, but just telling stories. In other words, this fairy tale has nothing to do with the Brothers Grimm in the Law Department of marienburg University, but is the product of people who are deeply rooted in the national spirit of the lower classes or suburbs adopted by the Brothers Grimm. Most of these stories that this group of people know are circulated locally or heard from their parents. So Grimm's fairy tales, like Nibelungen's songs, are based on the essence of the Germanic nation, not just "stories for children".
Therefore, those bloody, cruel and gothic scenes and stories truly reflect the preferences of the German people. Laugh.
I remember reading the Book of Songs when I was studying, and I liked the "sword" or "saying" chosen in the textbook (really cute), so I read the complete works myself with that yearning and respect. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first read the sentence "I stopped, but my heart fell". It's true. Later, it was pointed out by experts that I figured it out: everything was sung orally by uneducated farmers. How elegant can they be? I think when Mr. Kong first faced it, it must have been primitive and rough. It is really not easy to compile like this.
Ah, have a cup of black tea ~
Therefore, it is not surprising that there are murder, incest and necrophilia in Grimm's fairy tales that belong to ordinary people and should not appear in the world of princes and princesses. After all, it is something rooted in the people.
But even so, I still feel uncomfortable with the scene of eating people. Why, do Germans also have human flesh plots?
As far as I know, it seems to be the patent of our neighbor's friendly Yamato nationality ~
Episode 5
It seems that I have gone to a situation where I can't stop, wiping my sweat, but I still waste my beautiful youth on the keyboard because I want to express something.
Yes, nothing is without reason or constraint.
Although the meaning of truth and ability is not worth exploring.
Grimm's fairy tales were widely criticized even when they were first published in Germany, because there were a lot of lewd and pornographic scenes in the books at that time, and after as many as seven revisions, they became what we see now.
However, the translation of Grimm's fairy tales that can be seen in China may still have some ethnic restrictions. The original Grimm's Fairy Tales were reissued in Germany under the name of the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, and the traditional Chinese versions can also be bought in Taiwan Province Province of China, which are called the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales or the scary Grimm's Fairy Tales respectively.
It is precisely because of the publication of these collections that the debate about whether it is necessary for children to read classical fairy tales has arisen. Because even fairy tales are essentially based on the social humanities at that time, reflecting the living conditions at that time. For children, it is important to let them know the beauty that will not fade even if time passes, and everything they will face in the future.
At the same time, for myself, I really can't find a reason to read Grimm's fairy tales. If it weren't for the hopeless dark psychology and the pale reality of growing into an idle middle-aged person, the language was poor and the story was monotonous. Whether the things excavated from the film and television stage theater can still arouse my interest, the result is completely worthless.
Another book that has to be mentioned is a British children's book with the same essence as Grimm's fairy tales, but it is still widely read as "a must-read for learning English": Mother Goose's nursery rhymes.
Children in China may not be familiar with this book and its stories, but adults in China are more or less familiar with this book, such as the famous To Kill a Mockingbird. Friends who like Gregory Peck or agatha christie must have studied this book deeply.
There is a passage in the nursery rhyme "Mother Goose" which is very similar to the story of the juniper tree in Grimm's fairy tale.
My mother killed me,
My father is eating me,
My brothers and sisters are sitting under the table.
Pick up my bones,
They buried them.
Under the cold marble.
I don't know how English children will associate and understand such a scene. The only certainty is that there will never be such a thing in China's children's books, but ask whether the children who read nursery rhymes have enough thinking ability to understand what they read.
There was a man, a very untidy man,
Whose finger is missing?
Put it in his grave.
He rolled his head far under the bed;
He left his legs and arms.
It's all over the house
The reason why you want to quote the original English text should be clear to everyone. If you are not clear, you can try to recite it. Yes, it's catchy to read, and you can rhyme and deal with it without thinking. How wonderful! So you can illustrate the problem in Grimm's fairy tales through the same phenomenon in English: that is, fairy tales are not edifying children's thoughts, but only language education for children who are not fluent in speaking. )。
I recently got a set of genuine Peacock King from Dongli Publishing House. When I got this book, it was impressively printed on the cover:/kloc-no one under 0/8 can watch it. I was shocked: I thought I was 14 and 15 when I first saw it, and I didn't think there was anything I shouldn't know.
I opened the book and felt like eating chestnuts under the covers. There are bodies everywhere, faces on the ceiling, or naked women covered in blood. It's strange that I have no impression of such a collision scene. It wasn't until I couldn't sleep in bed at night that I inadvertently photocopied the ghost in the book, and I vaguely cursed: You can't read it until you are 18 years old!
Therefore, the so-called fairy tales refer to things that are shown to children. Only the powerful nerves of "ignorance and fearlessness" can bear all kinds of hot and exciting joys and sorrows. As adults, we should maintain a warm and tolerant attitude and return this indifference that can only be resolved by innocence to our children. After all, there is still a lot of fun in this society that belongs to adults. Laugh.
So, in this way, I finally decided to quit this field, and this small talk with suspicious motives came to an elegant end.