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Chapter 60 overseas mermaid

Dear Xiaowen: Have you read Andersen's fairy tales?Do you remember The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes in fairy tales?Hans Christian Andersen was from Denmark. He died in 1875. This year is exactly one hundred years old.The Little Mermaid in his fairy tale was made into a bronze statue by the Danes and placed in the port of the capital Copenhagen. The mermaid was not created by Hans Christian Andersen. The mermaid is a person in mythology, and it existed very early.Coincidentally, China also has them. The "overseas mermaid" mentioned in Chinese novels - "the upper body is like a woman, and the lower body is still fish-shaped", she is her.

There used to be a Mermaid Hotel in the UK (Mermaid Tavern, an inn once located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.), where Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and other writers gathered The place. Ben Jonson has also been in jail. English mermaid has two meanings. 1. an imaginary female marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the tail of a fish. 2. a highly-skilled girl swimmer, as a member of a swimming team.Swimming well is also called mermaid. Xiaowen, do you want to be a mermaid?

Letters will be sent home from next week, because you are on summer vacation. Grandma's birthday, you give a gift on behalf of Dad. dad May 24, 1975
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