On November 11, 1843, the Danish fairy tale writer's "The Ugly Duckling" was published for the first time. According to the complete collection of fairy tales he compiled himself before his death, it is the 26th. As the last line of the story goes, "When I was an ugly duckling, I never even dreamed of so much happiness!" Also because "The Ugly Duckling" has a portrayal of Andersen's life, this fairy tale is generally considered to be an autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen, describing his childhood and youth suffering, his views on what should be aristocrats and his pursuit and yearning to achieve this view, as well as his artistic achievements and spiritual comforts after many hardships.
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In fact, in addition to fairy tale writing, Andersen was full of innocence. The lesser-known side.
I believe that students who have watched "Edward Scissorhands" will be impressed by the male protagonist played by Johnny Depp, and the two scissors are played in his hands.
Edward can cut a hedge into a dinosaur; he can cut an ice sculpture for a beloved girl; he can perform all kinds of beautiful paper cuts for the children... It's as beautiful as a fairy tale.
But if I say that there are such people in reality, do you believe it?
And he has one more skill than "Edward Scissorhands", that is, he can cut paper while telling fairy tales for children, and when the fairy tales are finished, the paper is also cut.
What is even more amazing is that the ending of the fairy tale is hidden in the pattern of paper cuts, he is Hans Christian Andersen.
Our "father of modern fairy tales" Hans Christian Andersen has published works since he was 17 years old, and in his creative career of more than 50 years, he has created a total of 212 poems, novels, fairy tales and plays, including 156 fairy tales alone!
But Hans Christian Andersen himself said that the secret of such a high yield was because "learning to cut paper is the beginning of creation." ”
According to historical records, Hans Christian Andersen had a pair of beautiful, slender and soft hands. And these hands have to cut paper as soon as they have time. Cut when writing at home, cut when telling stories to children, cut when going to a friend's house, and bring scissors when going out, fortunately, the security check in the nineteenth century is not strict, you can let Hans Christian Andersen cut paper in all directions, and the scissors only need to be carried into the pocket.
In fact, many of Andersen's great fairy tale images were inspired by the process of paper-cutting, which was born. So his prolific secret is not unreasonable.
Hans Christian Andersen's paper-cut works: The Artist (1859)
Andersen left behind about a thousand paper cuts in his lifetime, which are collected in the Danish Royal Library and the museum in Andersen's hometown of Odense.
At the entrance of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, there is a picture of the sun head, which is the most famous "Solhoved" (the big head of the sun) in Hans Christian Andersen's paper-cut works, and if you take the train in Denmark, the ticket is printed with this pattern
For Christmas in Denmark, a kind of "Christmas love" origami is often hung on the Christmas tree, which is said to have been invented by Hans Christian Andersen
This is not even the most powerful and powerful and Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen also cut a three-dimensional chair! This must be Hans Christian Andersen's tired of telling stories to the children, thinking that if there is a chair, how good it would be, so "the heart to the hand", a "chair" appeared ~ ~
Andersen would also dress (collage) paper-cut villains, pair them with small poems, and make them into scrapbooks (equivalent to the popular "handbooks" now), and because he had no children in his life, he gave them to the children.
Coincidentally, another celebrity of the "Ann Generation", collage everyone, the posthumous work of pop art master Andy Warhol, the paper-cut printmaking work called "Hans Christian Andersen", is based on Hans Christian Andersen's paper-cut.
In May 1874, Hans Christian Andersen left the last scrapbook, writing on the title page that:
"Charlotte had an old friend whose name was Hans Christian Andersen and gave her this picture book."
Andersen left countless paper-cut authentic works to posterity, reminding people that there are fairy tales in their hearts, and they will always maintain a pure child's heart, which is the best memorial to the master. (Zihua)