Some people call the Brothers Grimm "European Pu Songling", presumably everyone knows the Brothers Grimm through the "Grimm Fairy Tales" that we can't get tired of reading.
When I mention "Grimm's Fairy Tales", I think about this name, and my mind is also a beautiful picture and a bubble of happiness. The good memories of childhood are inseparable from fairy tales such as "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales".
These novelties make people quickly enter a wonderful fairy tale world as soon as they read it. So when we mention fairy tales, we will unconsciously think of words such as "happiness", "beauty", "warmth", "romance" and so on.
Beautiful fairy tales not only open up the understanding, imagination and vision of the strange world for children, so that they can integrate into the story to become "little princesses" and "little princes"; but also let every adult who has read fairy tales and grow up always maintain the innocence and happiness brought by fairy tales.
As everyone knows, what is the true face of fairy tales. In fact, the fairy tales we read are not their original appearance.
The endless beauty and hope in your eyes may have been endless darkness and absurdity.
Take a look at the following fairy tales to see the true face of fairy tales.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >how did Sleeping Beauty wake up? </h1>
The earliest written version of the story of Sleeping Beauty was the Italian version from 1636.
King Wen found the beautiful princess Talia, but was unable to wake her up.
Obsessed with the beauty of the princess, he touched the princess who was still sleeping, and the princess gave birth to a pair of dragon twins after 9 months of sleep.
Because the child was just born and needed to find milk to eat, and one of the babies sucked the princess's finger, because the sucking was so urgent, she suddenly sucked out the poisonous things inside, and she was able to wake up.
Unexpectedly, the evil queen became jealous and asked the chef to chop the two children into food and give them to the king for dinner", and also took Talia naked for public display, shamed her, and even burned Talia to death.
At this moment the king came and ordered his men to tell him what was going on here, and to ask where his illegitimate children had gone. The queen told him that he had eaten the child himself, and the king began to cry.
Unexpectedly, the kind chef immediately ran out and said in a frightened and timid voice that he really couldn't do it, so he didn't kill the two children, and then the chef's wife appeared with two children, and the king finally married Talia, and lived a happy and happy life with 2 children.
As for the evil queen, she was ordered by the king to be burned to death.
Not only is the story of Sleeping Beauty, but the story of Cinderella as we know it is not what we see it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cinderella is not a simple and kind little girl</h1>
The story is of a little girl named Zizona who, together with her nanny, plans and devises a death trap that targets her vicious stepmother.
The story also says that she was seen to have murderous tendencies from the beginning. She then managed to booby-trap her stepmother.
She managed to lure her stepmother to look at an old box, then let the heavy lid fall down, breaking her neck.
Before her stepmother's bones were cold, she persuaded her father to let him marry the nanny. But that didn't last long for her good days, because the 6 daughters brought by the nanny and the nanny dominated the family.
As for the little girl, she was sent to do chores such as cleaning. Because she washed the stove day after day, she made herself black, so she had a nickname "coal ash cat".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Snow White describes a love affair</h1>
The Snow White in our minds was taken to the wild by her stepmother to be killed because her stepmother was jealous of her beauty, and after escaping, her stepmother also used a poison hair comb and a poisoned apple to kill the princess several times.
Thanks to the help of the seven dwarfs and the encounter with a prince who loves her, the princess finally lived a happy life with the prince.
However, in the original version of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", the poisoner who poisoned Snow White became the princess's biological mother, and the reason why the mother hated the princess to the bone was because the king had a love affair with the princess beyond his father's love, and the father and daughter really had an unrequited love.
The relationship between the princess and the seven dwarfs is also extraordinary, and the seven dwarfs are indecent middle-aged men, and they take him in because of the beauty of the princess. And the prince who fell in love with the princess was also described as a necrophilia!
The prince fell in love at first sight when he saw the beautiful woman's corpse, and had to bring it back to the castle to play, but he ate next to the corpse every day, otherwise he would not be able to swallow, which was really numbing.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > why are these fairy tales so dark?</h1>
The fairy tales we see are obviously not like this!
Before the Middle Ages, Europe was wild and the people were fierce, children were regarded as adults, they would marry when they were teenagers, and they were accustomed to the ugliness of adults and the bloodiness of life from an early age.
The stories handed down in such a context cannot be civilized, harmonious and representative of advanced culture.
Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated as "fairy tale" in English, translates to "weird rumors", a term that has nothing to do with children, but it is known that the book was not written for children in the first place.
The Brothers Grimm said that they created this collection of novels to warn the world through fairy tales.
Therefore, the earliest version of "Grimm's Story" reflects the style and morality of their time, and there is no lack of dark and evil sides.
It is not difficult for us to understand that the absurdity of human nature is really not something that can be written with pen and ink!
Because of its dark side, "Unfit for Children" has been revised for 45 years, and gradually formed a story that is now popular and suitable for children to read.