The Princess of Peas tells the story about a prince's search for a real princess, the story is simple and household, in addition, there are related movies and animations based on this story.

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, and princesses were plentiful, so how could he tell that she was the real one. One night, there was a terrible storm, it was a bit scary! At that moment, someone was knocking on the door, so the old king went over and opened the door. ? Standing outside the city was a princess. She said she was a real princess.

The old queen figured out a way to see if she was a real princess, but she didn't say anything. She went into her bedroom, moved all the bedding out of the way, and put a pea on the bedstead. Then she took out twenty mattresses and pressed them against the pea.

Then she put twenty duck down quilts on these mats, and the princess slept on this bed. The next day everyone asked her how she had slept, and the princess said, "It was so hard that I hardly closed my eyes all night, and there was a little thing in the bed that was very hard." Everyone judged that she was a real princess.

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Written in 1835, this work is collected in Tales to Tell Children's Stories for Children. It has a short plot but a profound meaning. A real prince can only marry a real princess, the so-called "gateway".

It was characterized by tender skin, so tender that even a pea pressed under the twenty mattresses and twenty duck down quilts could be felt, and this pea proved that the princess was real, and therefore it became something of great historical significance and was sent to the museum. Feudal rulers are ridiculous like that.

This little story is a great irony, which is also similar to "The Emperor's New Clothes". In addition, some people say that Andersen used it to satirize the weakness and vulnerability of the feudal aristocracy.

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