今天我想分享的英文书籍是《格林童话》，听到这个名字大家可能会有些诧异，有些人会认为我在分享儿童读物，有些人会认为童话很幼稚，纯属虚构。曾经我也是这么认为的，直到我再次翻开这本书，深刻了解这本书后，我才发现这本书不仅富有哲理，也饱含温度。
The English book I wanna share with u today is Grimm's Fairy Tales. You may wonder why I wanna share it when u hear the name of the book. Some people may think it's just children's stories cause fairy tales are a little bit childish and pure invention in their mind .Once I had same idea with them. But until I read the book again, and got a deep knowledge of it, I found that this book is not only full of philosophy and imagination, but also once warms thousands of people' heats.
First of all, let’s know more about the background of this book together!
《格林童话》是由德国雅可布·格林和威廉·格林兄弟收集、整理、加工完成的德国民间文学。《格林童话》里面约有200多个故事，大部分源自民间的口头传说，其中的《灰姑娘》《白雪公主》《小红帽》《青蛙王子》等童话故事较为闻名。但当时的德国，可谓欧洲最灾难深重的民族国家。自“三十年战争”后，沦为主要战场的德国，其政治经济都分崩离析，虽然名义上还顶着“神圣罗马帝国”的名号，实质却分裂成由360多个大大小小的公国和自由城市组成的“布头封建帝国”’一个结构松散的混合体，社会发展严重迟缓。
Grimm Fairy Tales is a German folk literature collected and written by brothers Jacob and William Green .There are about 200 tales in the book. Most of them derived from folklore, including the most famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Hood and The Frog Prince.But Germany at that time was the most disastrous nation-state in Europe.Since the "thirty years war",Germany had become the main battlefield , its politics and economy fell apart, although nominally with the "holy Roman empire", it was divided into more than 360 large and small principality and some free cities. The development of economy was nearly stopped. Thousands of people died of diseases and poverty.
战争会给人民带来什么？答案是什么都没有，就像现在的俄乌之战，不管谁输谁赢，谁对谁错，在战争里的人民必然生活在水深火热之中。我想，格林兄弟在这样糟糕的环境下创作的这本《格林童话》寄托了人世间最美好的善，也揭示了人本身潜藏的恶。它指引在战火中的人们进行正确的伦理选择，形成正确的善恶观，故事的完美结局为现实中流离失所的人们构建了充满希望和理想的乌托邦。在童话中，假、恶、丑虽然常常与其、善、美并存于世，并互相发生冲突，但最终的结局基本上都是正面的
Have u ever thought what the war can bring to the humanbeing ?Some may say resourses like oil or natural gas.Some others will say justice or freedom .But in my mind the war only bring us loss, just like the war between Russia and Ukraine now, no matter who wins the war, the local people lost their homes and even their lives .I think Grimm's fairy tales which written in such a bad circumstance shows the best kindness in the world and reveals the evil of people of their dark side.It guides the people in the war to make the right ethical choices and form the correct view of good and evil. The perfect ending of the story constructs a hopeful and ideal utopia for the displaced people in reality.In fairy tales, although false, evil, ugly often coexist with truth, good, beauty in the world, and conflict with each other, but the final outcome is basically positive.
接下来跟着我一起看看书中的内容吧！ 《格林童话》蕴涵着深刻的道德主题，用富有象征意义的形象来影射善与恶，将生动有趣的故事来表达善恶观。善良的人终究会有好的结果，所谓"善有善报"就是这个道理。《格林童话》中《灰姑娘》这则故事中的主人公灰姑娘，尽管受尽了，继母与姐姐们的欺负与侮辱，但依旧心地善良，最终获得了幸福。《小天使和鞋匠》中的鞋匠，他虽然不富裕，心却很善，把挣到的钱救济穷人，结果小天使们为他创造了奇迹，他的生意越做越红火。在《勇敢的小裁缝》故事中，小裁缝在森林打败了危害不法的巨人，独角兽，野猪，赢得了荣誉与半个江山 然而，并不是所有的人都是善良的，恶毒的人总会遭到惩罚，《白雪公主》中的王后就是很好的例子。她千方百计，不择手段地伤害白雪公主，末了却被那颗妒忌心活活气死。妇孺皆知的大灰狼，想吃小山羊，不但没有得逞，还白白搭上了性命，正是应验了那句"恶有恶报
Now let's read some stories of the book together!
Grimm's Fairy Tales contains profound moral themes, using symbolic images to reflect good and evil, and expressing vivid and interesting stories to express good and evil.Good people will eventually have good results. In the story of Cinderella, despite being bullied and insulted by her stepmother and sisters,Cinderella is still kind-hearted and finally gets happiness. In the story of The little angel and the Shoemaker although the shoemaker is not rich, but his he has a rich heart.He earned the money to help the poor.So the little angels created a miracle for him, which made his business get more and more prosperous at last .In the story of The Little Brave Tailor, the little tailor defeated the harmful giant. The unicorn and the wild boar got the fame in the forest. However, not all people are kind, the vicious people are always punished in the end. Just like the Queen in Snow White is a good example.She tried to hurt Snow White by any means for her jealous heart.But she took the consequence which bcome the most ugly old lady at last. The well-known Wolf wanted to eat the little goat, not only did not succeed, but also lost its life in vain, which fulfilled the sentence "evil is evil".
在物质文化越来越发达的现代社会，走出伊甸园太久而迷失了自我和天性的人们寻求着精神上的回归。这本书会让我们更深地了解了人性，了解了人性的真、善、美，同时也了解了人性丑陋的一面。也愿每个人都成为善良的人，这样，世界才会真正成为爱的人类家园！
Now we are living in a richful and peaceful society, we dont have to suffer from poverty or dieases, but lots of people seemed loses the courage to seek for happiness and dreams.Their lives are surrounded by work,houses or debts. Life is too short, that's why we should try to make ourselves happy, meaningful and being a kind peple.This book cant change who you are, but can help u get rid of the noisy circumstance around u and make you quiet and peace.So no matter how old are u, or what awful things u are just encountering, please dont be upset or complain about.U may try to read a fairy tail or some other books u may interested in.I think having a rich heart can defeat any hard in our life.