A long time ago, how long? It's been going on until the 1980s. At that time in China, whether it was a big friend or a child, there was an idol, her name was Zhang Haidi.
At that time, Germany was still two countries, divided into the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany by the Berlin Wall. One day, Zhang Haidi, a socialist country, received a letter from the capitalist country, the Federal Republic of Germany, written to her by two little girls living at the foot of the Alps.
They told Haidi Zhang that your name is Heidi, which is the same pronunciation as the protagonist's name in the novel "Heidi". You, like Heidi, are strong and kind.
They also told Zhang Haidi that there is a plot in the novel "Heidi": Clara, a paralyzed rich girl, goes to the Alps to visit Heidi. Peter the Shepherd is Heidi's friend, and he is jealous of Clara and Heidi's friendship. He pushed Clara's wheelchair down the Alps. Who knows, Clara did not have a wheelchair, but stood up and will leave from now on.
They warmly invited Zhang Haidi: Sister Heidi, you can also come to the Alps! We will also push your wheelchair down from the highest mountain top. Then, like Clara, you can stand up.
Hey? You ask me how I know?
I was about Heidi's age at the time, and like her, I was troubled by something. That's literacy. Heidi was much luckier than I was because she only had to memorize 26 letters, but I had to memorize at least a few hundred words to read them.
When I was about four years old, my parents gave me preschool education. Geniuses like me quickly learned "one", "two", "three", and then "four" could not be written anyway.
Mom sighed like Heidi and Clara's personal teachers, and Dad simply followed the style of an Alpine teacher, slapping her face and exhaling.
However, I soon found that I, like Heidi, could read interesting stories after literacy. Since then, the new world seems to have opened a window to me, and through the square characters, I have seen an incomparably gorgeous world.
The story of Zhang Haidi's correspondence with the little girl in the Federal Republic of Germany is what I saw from a newspaper as a child.
Maybe because of this, I always feel that Heidi and Haidi Zhang are the same age. Until a few days ago, after I went to the cinema to see "Heidi and Grandpa", I checked the relevant information as usual with the custom of a history writer:
The novel Heidi is divided into two parts, Heidi's Learning and Wandering Years and Heidi's Learning to Practice. They were published in 1880 and 1881, respectively.
1880?
The Great Qing Dynasty is not dead yet!
In 1880, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was 9 years old Guangxu. So he was Heidi, Clara, and Peter's peers. Guangxu was the richest child in the world at that time, but Guangxu sitting on the dragon chair was very unhappy like Clara in a wheelchair. His Heidi, or Princess Jane, would not be elected to the palace until several years later.
When Heidi was published, the author, Johanna Sbilee, was in her fifties. She is Swiss and lives in Zurich, switzerland's richest and most cultured city.
Johanna Spieli's husband, Benhard Spieley, was a well-known lawyer and secretary general of the city of Zurich. However, her husband is in the political arena and inevitably ignores the family, which makes Johanna very lonely. So she began writing with the encouragement of her friends.
Johanna Sbilee
Why, so many housewives in Europe, only Johanna cultivated to become a writer, and also wrote a world-class masterpiece "Heidi"?
That's because Johanna's origin is also extraordinary! Her father was a doctor and her mother was a poet. Her origins should be similar to Clara's, and she is a family of great wealth and nobility. Therefore, Johanna received a good education from an early age.
As a child, Johanna spent vacations in the countryside around the Alps, and many of her works have since been set in this context. Heidi is said to be based on Johanna's childhood experiences, which took her only four weeks to complete.
Therefore, Clara should have more of an author's shadow, and "Heidi" is a novel written by Clara as an adult based on her childhood partner. At the end of the novel, Clara, Heidi and Peter become friends and enjoy the gentle alpine winds in harmony.
However, what if Heidi grew up? Will she suffer for her own poverty, will she envy someone who is born with too much and too much?
30 years later, Johanna's Heidi was translated into the United States by Charles Tridun, which soon became a hit and was made into a movie in 1937, starring the then-household child star Solan Temple.
American children loved the book, and they wrote to Charles Tridun asking about Heidi's story. However, Johanna had already died in 1901. So Tridun took matters into his own hands and wrote a sequel to the novel, Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children. Heidi gets a double harvest of career and love in the sequel.
In Heidi Grows Up, Heidi grows into a big girl and becomes an elementary school teacher in the Alps. She reformed the education system to educate her children with love, but without corporal punishment. In Heidi's Children, Heidi is married. Her lover, whom everyone knows, is Peter the Shepherd.
Oh my God, when I learned that Heidi was married to Peter, I always had the feeling that my sister was married to Ban'er, and Esmeralda was married to Quasimodo.
But so what? The lovers of this pair of green plum bamboo horses will surely find their own happiness in the Alps.