Danes love to read.

The literary works of the fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen reached the pinnacle of world literature, giving Denmark the nickname "Kingdom of Fairy Tales".

This is a lonely man who contributes to a country.

If he is still alive now, there will be many women who read his fairy tales back then to throw themselves into his arms......

It's a pity that he didn't wait for the woman who threw herself into his arms.

After leaving the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, Ye Chao went to see the daughter of the sea - that is, the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid.

She is the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea".

The Bronze Statue of The Little Mermaid is a world-famous bronze statue located in Langelinie Park, northeast of downtown Copenhagen, Denmark, and is now a symbol of Denmark.

Looking at this mermaid with a fishtail in the distance, she sits on a huge granite stone, quiet and elegant, leisurely, and when you approach this bronze statue, you see a melancholy, meditative girl.

The bronze statue is about 1.5 meters high and the cornerstone diameter is about 1.8 meters, and was cast by the Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea".

The statue was built at the expense of Carl Jacobsen, founder of the New Carlsberg Brewing Company. One day, Carl Jacobsen was so moved by the idea of making a bronze statue of a mermaid when he saw the premiere of the ballet "Daughter of the Sea" at the Royal Theatre.

He felt that Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales had taken the form of ballet, music and oil painting in the arts. Only one statue is missing.

So Carl Jacobsen consulted with the sculptor Erickson, hoping that Erickson would use the art of sculpture to represent mermaids. Jacobson also invited Erickson to watch the ballet "Daughter of the Sea" for this purpose.

Erickson took inspiration from ballet and conceived the form of the bronze statue.

Originally, Ellen Price, the heroine of the ballet, was the model for Erickson's sculpture of a mermaid.

But soon after, Erickson developed feelings for Paris, and Paris also had Erikson's flesh and blood, Erickson's fiancée Erin was very angry when she found out, Paris had to marry someone else with the child, but Eileen told Paris's husband about Paris and Erickson, and Paris was abused by her husband and finally died of schizophrenia.

Later, Erickson used his wife as a model to create this bronze statue of a mermaid. However, although Erickson has changed his model, there is always another model in his heart that cannot be touched. Only the people of the Paris family know that the woman who lives by the sea forever is clearly the incarnation of Paris from her expression to her temperament.

After that, every dusk, an old man with gray hair would appear on the shore of the Baltic Sea, and he and the mermaid, and even more so with the Paris of his dreams, looked at the sea side by side.

The bronze statue of the mermaid has a history of nearly 104 years since it was completed in Long Beach Park in 1913.

She attracts countless tourists. There is a saying that if you don't see mermaids, you can't be to Copenhagen.

The bronze statue of a mermaid has become an icon of Copenhagen.

However, in 1964, 1984 and 1998, the mermaid suffered three tribulations of being "beheaded" and "broken arms", of which the mermaid's head was "cut off" again on January 6, 1998, and was recovered shortly after it was recovered.

Legend......

In the story, Aquaman's youngest daughter falls in love with a prince in the world, and in order to fall in love with the prince and become a lifelong partner, she leaves her family and loved ones, hands over her beautiful and moving voice, and endures endless pain every day.

However, the prince was unable to marry her, because the king chose a princess from a neighboring country as his wife.

On the second day of the prince's marriage, as the sun rises, the mermaid turns into foam and finally ascends to the sky in the clouds. The demeanor of the bronze statue shows that the mermaid misses the prince she is attached to, and also misses her relatives.

She gazes at the humans on land, hoping to be one of them. But in the end, he did not get his wish, so he felt sad and painful from the bottom of his heart. The bronze statue of a mermaid has become an icon of Copenhagen.

In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale world, the "Little Mermaid" is the youngest daughter of Aquaman, who lives carefree in the sea. She has an angelic beauty and a nightingale-like singing voice. According to the rules of the underwater palace, the "mermaids" only have the opportunity to surface and see the human world when they are 15 years old.

The beautiful "Little Mermaid" has finally waited for this day.

One day, the "Little Mermaid" was playing on the beach when he suddenly found a prince drowning. The Little Mermaid struggled to save the prince and fell in love with him at the same time.

In order to stay with the prince, she found a sorceress at the bottom of the sea and asked to turn her fishtail into human legs.

But the wizard offered to give the "Little Mermaid" a silver bell-like voice in exchange. The sorcerer also warned that if the prince moved on to another relationship, she would die as a foam on the sea.

In pursuit of love, none of this swayed the "Little Mermaid", she resolutely drank the transformation potion, and her tail turned into slender legs.

But she has since lost the ability to speak.

Unexpectedly, at this time, another beautiful princess broke in. The princess awakens the prince, who is still unconscious.

The prince mistakenly thought that she had saved him, and the two fell in love at once.

The poor "Little Mermaid" could no longer speak, could not express to the prince what he had done and his love for him, and could only cry silently alone.

Later, the news of the prince's imminent marriage came, and the "Little Mermaid" was heartbroken.

According to the wizard's spell, the "Little Mermaid" will turn into a bubble and die. But the wizard told the "Little Mermaid" that there was a last resort to break the spell, which was to stab the prince in the heart with a knife, causing his blood to drip on her feet.

In this way, she can also turn back into the original "Little Mermaid".

But the kind-hearted "Little Mermaid" still loves the prince deeply and can't bear to hurt him. So, she didn't listen to the persuasion of her sisters, and finally chose to turn into a bubble in the sea and die.

From the body of "The Little Mermaid", the Danes saw that her prototype was almost Andersen himself. Andersen had his childhood sweetheart's first love when he was young, and he once pursued the girl next door, Vogt.

However, due to the huge difference in family conditions, they were not able to get together in the end.

When Andersen was 26 years old, Vogt married a wealthy local kid. From then on, Andersen was disheartened by love and determined to stay alone for the rest of his life.

On the day of Hans Christian Andersen's death, it was discovered that he had a small leather bag around his neck, which contained the letters that Vogt had written to him that year.

The 1.5-metre-tall statue of The Little Mermaid was built in 1913 by Carl Jacobsen, the son of Carlsberg's founder, to commemorate the famous Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Since its location in the harbour of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, it has become a symbol of Denmark. Every year, tens of thousands of tourists visit Denmark to see the Little Mermaid.

Hans Christian Andersen's "Daughter of the Sea" creates a poignant image of a young girl, which is embarrassing.

However, even Ye Chao has to admit that poignancy is also a kind of beauty, although it is sad, it is also unforgettable......

Beautiful love, Andersen did not get, and the daughter of the sea did not get it, but their hearts are beautiful......

It's sadly beautiful.