First of all, the story of the Princess of Lettuce is from Grimm's Fairy Tales, not from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. The Lettuce Girl (Rapunzel; Rupanzal) is a fairy tale from Grimm's Fairy Tales. It tells the story of a girl with magical hair who meets a prince and lives happily ever after through trials and tribulations.
The full story is as follows:
Once upon a time, there was a man and a woman who always wanted a child, but never got one. Finally, the woman had to hope that God would give her a child. There was a small window at the back of their house, from which they could see a beautiful garden full of exotic flowers and plants. But there was a high wall around the garden, and no one dared to go in, because the garden belonged to a witch. This witch was so powerful that everyone in the world was afraid of her.
One day the wife stood at the window and looked out into the garden, and saw very beautiful lettuces growing on a piece of ground. These lettuces were so green and watery that they immediately aroused her appetite and she wanted to eat them very much. This desire increased day by day, and when she knew that she could not eat them in any case, she became very emaciated, pale and miserable. Her husband was horrified and asked her, "What ails you, my dear?" "Ah," she replied, "I'll die if I can't eat the lettuce from that garden behind our house."
The husband, because he loved her so much, thought, "Instead of telling his wife to go to her death, why don't we get her some lettuce, and whatever will happen?" At dusk, he scaled the fence, slipped into the witch's garden, darted out a handful of lettuce, and brought it back to her wife. The wife immediately made a salad out of the lettuce and gobbled it up. The lettuce tasted so good that the next day she wanted to eat twice as much lettuce as the day before.
In order to satisfy his wife, the husband had to decide to rummage into the witch's garden again. So, at dusk, he sneaked into the garden, but just as he climbed down from the wall, he was startled, for he saw the witch standing right in front of him. "How dare you," she said angrily, "to sneak into my garden and steal my lettuce like a thief!" "Alas," he replied, "have pity on me and spare me. I had no choice but to do it. My wife saw the lettuce in your garden from her window and wanted it so badly that she would have died if she had not eaten it."
The witch slowly lost some of her anger after hearing this, and said to him, "If things are really as you say, I will let you pick as much lettuce as you like, but I have one condition: you must give me the child your wife is going to have. I will give her a good life and will treat her like a mother." The husband, out of fear, had to agree to all the witch's conditions. No sooner had his wife given birth to the child than the witch came and named the child "Lettuce" and took the child away.
"Lettuce" slowly grew into the most beautiful girl in the world. When the child was twelve, the witch put her in a tower. The tower was in the forest and had neither stairs nor a door, just a tiny window at the top. Whenever the witch tried to get in, she stood at the bottom of the tower and called,
"Lettuce, lettuce, hang down your hair."
The lettuce girl had long, golden, thick hair. As soon as she heard the witch's call, she loosened her braid of hair, wrapped the top around a window hook, and let it down twenty meters. The witch then climbed up this long hair.
A year or two passed. One day, the prince was riding through the forest and happened to pass by this tower. At that moment, he suddenly heard a beautiful song, and couldn't help but stop and listen quietly. It was the lettuce girl who was singing, and she had to sing to pass the time in her loneliness. The prince wanted to climb to the top of the tower to see her, so he looked around for the door, but how could he not find it. He returned to the palace, and the song had touched him so y that he rode to the forest every day to listen to it. One day, as he stood behind a tree, he saw the witch coming, and heard her calling at the top of the tower:
"Lettuce, lettuce, let down your hair."
At once the lettuce girl hung down her braid of hair, and the witch climbed up by it. The prince thought, "If that's the ladder that lets people climb up, I can try my luck, too." The next evening he came to the tower and called,
"Lettuce, lettuce, hang down your hair."
She then agreed and gave her hand to the prince. She said, "I would very much like to go with you, but I don't know how to get down. Why don't you bring me a piece of silk thread every time you come, and I will weave a ladder out of it. When the ladder is made up, I will climb down, and you will carry me on your horse." Since the old witch always came in the daytime, they agreed to let the prince come every evening. The witch noticed nothing until one day the lettuce girl asked her, "I ask you, Reverend Mother, how is it that when I pull you I always feel that you are much heavier than that young prince? But he comes up at once."
"Ah! You bad boy!" The witch yelled, "What are you talking about? I thought you were cut off from the world, but I didn't think you'd lied to me!" She angrily grabbed the lettuce girl's beautiful braid and wrapped it twice around her left hand, then manipulated a pair of scissors with her right hand and chirped a few times, and the beautiful braid fell to the ground. Then she sent the lettuce girl to the wilderness, and let her live there in misery and pain.
On the day the lettuce girl was sent away, the witch tied the cut braid to a window hook at the top of the tower. The prince came and called out,
"Lettuce, lettuce, hang down your hair."
The witch let down her hair, and the prince climbed up with it. However, instead of seeing his beloved lettuce girl, he saw that the witch was glaring evilly at him. "Aha!" She taunted the prince, "You've come to fetch your sweetheart, haven't you? But the beautiful bird won't sing in her nest anymore. She's been captured by the cat, and the cat is going to gouge your eyes out. Your lettuce girl is finished, and you will never see her again." The prince was in agony and in despair jumped from the tower.
He fell into a thorn bush, and though he was not killed, he was blinded in both eyes by the thorns. He walked aimlessly through the forest, eating nothing but grass roots and berries, and cried bitterly every day over the loss of his love. He went around the forest in this painful way for years, and finally came to the wilderness where the lettuce girl was suffering. The lettuce girl had given birth to twins, a son and a daughter. When the prince heard a voice speaking, and thought it sounded familiar, he went toward it.
As he approached, the lettuce girl recognized him immediately and threw her arms around his neck and wept. Two of her tears moistened his eyes and brought them back to light. He could see again as before. He returned to his kingdom with his wife and children.
Extended information:
1. The Lettuce Girl (Rapunzel; Rupanzal) is a fairy tale from Grimm's Fairy Tales. It tells the story of a girl with magic hair who meets a prince and lives happily ever after through trials and tribulations.
2. Barbie as Rapunzel is an animated adaptation of The Lettuce Girl from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Canada's Mainframe Entertainment Studios. Directed by Irving Hooley, it is the second installment of the Barbie film series. Featuring the voices of Stuart Shadow and Jia Xie. It tells the story of Rapunzel Reboza, who pursues freedom and love, but is chained to an enchanted tower by the witch Gauthier. But with bravery, resourcefulness and imagination, the story of Rapunzel's quest for freedom and love is finally resolved after several twists and turns.
The film was officially released on October 1, 2002 in the United States. Specific release date see the following table:
3, "Rapunzel" is a 3D animated film produced by Disney Studios in 2010, Disney Studios from hand-drawn animation to computer animation comprehensive transformation of the first work, adapted from the Grimm's fairy tale "Lettuce Girl", directed by Nathan Grino, Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy and other joint voice voice, the film was released in the U.S. on November 24, 2010, the film was released in the United States. November 24, 2010 in the United States.
The film's protagonist is a girl with long hair, Le Pei, whose hair is controlled by magic, so she has been living in an isolated tower since childhood, until one day, there is a gangly, handsome thief Flynn Lederer, because of his strong hands, when he came to the tower below, he found that it was the best place to hide, at which time he climbed up the tower with his bare hands, not knowing that there was a beautiful girl on the tower, a strange relationship between a girl and a girl. A beautiful girl, a strange destiny is unfolded.
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