Yet everything looks: an emperor, three marriageable daughters, a hapless servant who became a prince charming, bing! The big love. We say we are dealing with Cinderella.
Yet no, far from it. Because here, it is actually about love, it's filial love. There is no jealous stepmother, no opposition between the sisters. The crux of the story lies in the relationship between father and daughter.
One day the emperor widower asks his three daughters how cherished they like, they, the two first meet with sweet comparative and last, too young, perhaps, or too outspoken, she confesses the loves like salt.
It is true that says like this, it's not super sexy. Imagine Lou Reed singing, instead of "Sugar": "Salt Hey, take a walk on the wild side." Right now, it's the least ... and that is precisely what has said his father, Red Emperor, for once, has to its name and that sent the insolent vauvert the devil.
Only laboriously, with great humility, that the young princess banished find a happy marriage majesty due to his rank. What will decide then vis-a-vis her old father and her sisters? This is what I suggest you find out for yourself.
This wisdom tale is interesting from my point of view because it shows, through an experience for all children, the dining experience, that not everything is in the immediacy and ease and that in the saying goes, sometimes it is what makes the salt of existence.
So a nice book to offer playback from about 8 years and read by adults earlier but probably not in kindergarten where the vocabulary used and the length of the story will be too large obstacles . But this is only an opinion, perhaps tasteless, that is to say, not much.
