Grimm's fairy tale "Thorn cypress"

Grimm's Fairy Tales was produced at the beginning of19th century, and was collected by the famous German linguists jacob green and william green.

German folk literature after management and processing. It is a classic of fairy tales in the world, and it has had a wide influence in the world since it came out.

Brothers Grimm told the children magical and romantic fairy tales with their rich imagination and beautiful language. At home, Japan

Ben and Taiwan Province Province also have stories based on Grimm's fairy tales.

The author of Grimm's fairy tales

Brothers Grimm: jacob green, william green.

They are all German folk literature collectors. Born in an official family, they all studied law at Marburg University, and they all studied in Kassel Library.

He used to be a professor at the University of Gergen, and 184 1 became an academician of the Green Academy of Sciences. They made up children's and family fairy tales together.

The last edition was published in 1857, with 2 16 stories in total. Among them are Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and a brave kitchen knife.

Sewing, etc It has become the favorite masterpiece of children all over the world. In addition, Brothers Grimm began to collect German folk songs from 1808.

Legend, published "German Legend" two volumes, a total of 585 articles. They also wrote German grammar (18 19 ~ 1837) and German language history.

(1848) and the first four volumes of German Dictionary (1852) contributed to the development of Germanic linguistics.

Chinese junipers

About two thousand years ago, there was a rich man who loved his wife very much. The couple love each other and live a very happy life. Unfortunately, they have never had children. There is a garden in front of their house, and there is a tall juniper tree inside.

One winter, it was snowing heavily outside, and the earth was covered with silver. My wife stood under the juniper tree, enjoying the snow and peeling apples. Inadvertently, the knife cut her finger and blood dripped on the snow. Looking at the bright red blood spots against the white snow, she sighed deeply and said, "Alas! How happy I would be if I had a child whose skin was as white as snow and as rosy as blood! " As she talked and thought, her mood became excited, as if her wish was really coming true.

Winter passed, and the spring breeze blew, taking off the silver clothes on the ground and putting on a green coat for her. Flowers dot the green fields; When the trees show their spring buds, the twigs begin to be brushed away by the residual flowers on the branches, and birds fly around happily among the trees, singing songs praising spring. Facing this vibrant nature, the rich man's wife is full of hope and joy.

When early summer comes, the warm sunshine pushes away the tender buds of juniper again, and the warm Xia Feng wafts into her room with the fragrance of flowers. The fragrance of flowers stirred her heart and beat her heart. She came to the juniper tree, knelt on the ground with joy and prayed silently.

Autumn came, and when the branches were covered with fruits, she picked dark red dried fruits from the juniper tree. I don't know why, she seems to be very sad and sad at this time. She called her husband and said to him, "If I die, bury me under this juniper tree."

Soon, she gave birth to a very beautiful son. The child looks just as she hoped. It is really white and red, red and pink. Seeing her lovely child, her heart was full of happiness, and she could no longer bear the pain of childbirth. She slowly lowered her head and left her husband and newborn child.

Her husband buried her under the juniper tree according to her last wish and mourned her death with tears in his eyes. After a while, his mood calmed down and his tears were much less. After a while, his tears completely disappeared. After a while, he married another wife.

As time went on, the second wife gave birth to a daughter. She takes good care of her daughter, but the son born by her ex-wife is becoming more and more attractive, as white as snow and as red as blood. As soon as she saw the child, she was filled with hatred, thinking that with him, she and her daughter would not get all the wealth of her husband. Therefore, she is very unkind to the poor child, often abusing him, pushing him from one corner of the room to another, punching him at one moment, wringing him at another, and getting bruises all over her body. When he comes back from school, he often has no peaceful place to stay as soon as he enters the room, which makes him afraid when he sees his stepmother.

Once, the little girl's mother went to the storage room. She caught up with her mother and said, "Mom, can I have an apple?"

Mother replied, "OK! My little darling. " Say that finish, she took out a bright red apple from the box and gave it to her.

The lid of this box is heavy, with a sharp iron clip on it. The little girl took the apple and said, "Mom, give me another one. I want to take it to my little brother. "

Her mother was very unhappy, but she still said, "All right, my baby! I will give him one when he comes back from school. "

With this, she saw the little boy just come back from the window. She immediately took the apple back from her daughter, threw it into the box, covered it, and said to her daughter, "Let's eat together when my brother comes back."

When the little boy came into the room, the sinister woman said in a gentle voice, "Come in, my good boy, and I will give you an apple to eat."

Hearing this, the little boy said, "Mom, you are so nice today! I really want to eat apples. "

"Ok, come in with me!" Then she took him to the storage room, opened the lid of the box and said, "get yourself one."

When the little boy bent down to get the apples in the box, she pulled down the lid savagely. "bang!" "There was a loud bang, and the heavy lid suddenly cut off the poor little boy's head, and it fell into the apple in the box.

When she realized what she had done, she felt very scared and didn't know how to get rid of it. She went into her bedroom, took out a towel from the drawer, went to the storage room, put the little boy's head around her neck, wrapped it in a towel, carried him to the stool in front of the door, and stuffed an apple in her hand. After everything was arranged, no one saw what she had done.

Soon, the little girl Maggie came to the kitchen and saw her mother standing by the fire, stirring a pot of hot water. She said, "Mom, my brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand. I asked him to give it to me, but he didn't say a word. His face is so pale. I am so scared. "

Mother replied, "Bastard! If you go again, if he doesn't answer you, give him a hard slap. "

Maggie turned to the door and said to her brother, "Brother, give me the apple."

But when my brother didn't say a word, she reached out and slapped him, and his head was knocked off at once. This time, she was scared out of her wits, screaming and running to find her mother, saying that she had knocked off her brother's head, and she burst into tears.

Mother said, "marjorie! What did you do? Alas! What has happened is irreversible. We'd better get rid of it and don't mention it to anyone. "

Mother grabbed the little boy, chopped him up, put him in a pot and made a pot of soup. But marjorie just stood there crying, tears fell into the pot, so there was no need to put salt in the pot.

When the father came home for dinner, he asked, "Where is my little son?"

Mother did not say a word. She put a big bowl of black soup on the table, and Maggie hung her head sadly and cried.

The father asked where his youngest son had gone, and the mother said, "Ah! I think he went to his uncle's house. "

Father asked, "What happened in such a hurry that you left without saying goodbye to me?"

Mother replied, "I know he wants to go, and he begged me to let him stay there for a while." He will definitely have a good time there. " #p# Subtitle #e#

The father said, "Alas! I don't like him doing this. He should have said goodbye to me before he left. " He continued to eat, but he still felt uneasy for his son. He always felt a little sad and said to his little daughter, "Marjory, why are you crying?" I think your brother will come back. "

But Maggie quickly slipped out of the restaurant, went to her room, opened the drawer, took out her best silk handkerchief, wrapped her brother's body, carried it outside and put it under the juniper tree. She cried sadly from beginning to end, and only then did she feel a little relieved and stopped crying.

When she dried her tears and looked again, she found that the juniper tree began to swing back and forth automatically, and the branches were folded together after unfolding, just like a person clapping his hands happily. Then, a thin cloud appeared on the tree with a burning flame in the middle. A beautiful bird rose from the flame and flew into the sky. After the bird flew away, the towel and the little boy disappeared, and the tree returned to its original state.

At this moment, marjorie's heart was really happy, as if her brother had come back to life. She went into the house happily for dinner.

Grimm's fairy tale "Thorn cypress"