Story summary
The story tells about a poor young gangster named Aladdin.
He lived in China and was later invited by a magician from the Maghreb (who pretended to be Aladdin's uncle) to retrieve a magical oil lamp from a booby-trapped cave. .
Just as the Wizard is about to take further advantage of Aladdin, Aladdin finds himself trapped in a cave.
Fortunately, Aladdin still kept a magic ring lent to him by the magician.
Aladdin rubbed his hands together in despair, and happened to rub the ring, and a genie burst out.
The genie also took him home, and Aladdin brought back an oil lamp.
Just as his mother was about to clean the oil lamp, suddenly a more powerful genie burst out from the oil lamp, waiting for the master's command at any time.
With the help of the genie, Aladdin became rich and powerful, and eventually married the princess Badroulbadour.
The genie also built a beautiful palace for Aladdin, even more magnificent than the emperor's palace.
Later, the magician returned to China and defrauded the magic lamp.
The princess did not notice the special oil lamp at that time, so she gave it to the magician by "replacing the old lamp with a new lamp".
The magician ordered the genie to move Aladdin's palace to the Maghreb.
Fortunately, Aladdin still keeps the magic ring, so there are less powerful genies at his disposal.
Although the Genie of the Ring could not directly break the power of the Genie of the Lamp, he was able to take Aladdin to the Maghreb, helping him rescue his wife and defeat the sorcerer.
Extended information:
Story source and background
The 19th century British pantomime cartoon "New Crowns for Old", based on Aladdin story.
(Benjamin Disraeli, who plays Abanaza, is giving the crown representing the royal power of India to Queen Victoria in exchange for the old crown)
Aladdin The story was compiled into the book "One Thousand and One Nights" by the French translator Antoine Galland.
A *** storyteller from Aleppo, Syria, told the story of Aladdin, and Garang absorbed and polished it after listening.
Garland's diary (March 25, 1709) records that he met a Maronite named Hanna, who was introduced by the famous French traveler Paul Lucas was introduced to Paris from Aleppo.
Garland's diary also states that his translation of "Aladdin" was completed during 1709–10, compiled into volumes 9 and 10 of "One Thousand and One Nights", and published in 1710.
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and Other Stories, by John Penn, published in London in 1901, details Galland's contact with the man he called Hanna, and also mentions France The National Library holds two Chinese manuscripts of the "Aladdin" story (with two additional "inserted" stories).
One of the manuscripts is a messy manuscript from Syria in the late 18th century.
What is even more interesting is that another manuscript is owned by the Oriental scholar Armand Pierre Cochin, which was completed in Baghdad in 1703.
The French National Library purchased this manuscript at the end of the 19th century.
Although Aladdin is actually a Middle Eastern story, the characters in the story are not ***, but Chinese.
The so-called "China" in the story is a country of ***, and most of the people are ***, including a Jewish businessman who bought utensils from Aladdin (he also blackmailed Aladdin) Latin), however there is no mention of Buddhists or Confucians.
Everyone in this country has a *** name, and its rulers are more like Persian kings than Chinese emperors.
This country is fictional, far away, and located in the Far East.
But this country has little to do with "real" or historical China.
This kind of story background is very common in fairy tales - it highlights that the story is not too realistic and loses the artistic conception, or it is just an ingenious arrangement technique.
The creator of the story did not know the existence of America, so "China" in Aladdin represents the "far east", while Morocco, the magician's hometown, is the "far west".
The story begins with the story of the magician trying his best to come to China from afar. In the creator’s world view, that is the longest journey, and it shows the magician’s attempt to obtain the priceless magic lamp. determination.
When the story develops to the end, the genie effortlessly helps Aladdin and the magician travel between the east and the west in an instant, showing the powerful power of the genie.
Related adaptations
Adam Orenshregg wrote the play "Aladdin" in 1805.
Carl Nielsen composed the accompanying music for the play.
In Britain, the story of Aladdin first began in 1704–1714; it was brought to the stage of the Theater Royal in London in 1788 by John O'Keeffe.
The story of Aladdin has been a popular subject of pantomime for more than two hundred years.
The traditional Aladdin pantomime is the basis for the famous pantomime character "The Widow Tuanqi" (Aladdin's mother).
The scene setting and plot of the pantomime version of Aladdin try to incorporate Chinese elements (although this "Chinese" scene is the East End of London, not medieval Baghdad).
Sandy Wilson's musical "Aladdin" is the famous "Aladdin pantomime" since 1979.
Since the early 1990s, British Christmas fairy tales have been heavily influenced by Disney animation - for example, the 2007/2008 Birmingham version of Aladdin starred John Barrowman and adapted many Disney characters The soundtracks in the animated films "Aladdin" and "Mulan".
In the 1960s, Bollywood released the movie "Aladdin and Sinbad".
The film is not strictly faithful to the book, in which the two heroes meet each other and go on adventures together.
The "genie" of the magic lamp in the film is female, and in the end Aladdin marries her instead of the princess (who became a mortal mortal because of Aladdin).
Aladdin has been adapted into animation several times, including "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp" and "Popeye" produced in 1939.
In 1962, the Italian branch of the Walt Disney Company released "Donald Duck and Aladdin's Cave" (Paperino e la grotta di Aladino), written by Osvaldo Pavese and directed by Pierre Drawn by Lorenzo.
In the film, Scrooge McDuck leads Donald Duck and his nephews Dool, Lu and Fay to search for Aladdin's treasure, and later meets the Middle Eastern version of the Migru Boy. .
Scrooge says that Aladdin is a bandit who uses the legend of the magic lamp to cover up his ill-gotten gains.
They discovered Aladdin's cave. The entrance to the cave was blocked by huge rocks and had to be opened with various versions of the "Open Sesame" code word.
At this point, the story involves the story of "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" again.
In 1966, the Soviet film "Volshebnaia Lampa Aladdina" (Volshebnaia Lampa Aladdina) was released.
In 1982, Media Home Entertainment released "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp".
Especially among young people, the most familiar Aladdin story is the 1992 animated film "Aladdin" produced by Walt Disney Animation Company.
In this version, the original names of many characters have been renamed (for example, the magician was renamed "Jafar" and became the minister of the court), and the characters have new in-game goals (such as The genie of the lamp longs for freedom) or is replaced (the genie of the ring disappears and is replaced by a magic carpet).
The story scene was moved from China to the fictional Japanese city of Agrabah, and the story structure was also simplified.
Broadway Junior Company releases "Aladdin Junior", a children's musical based on the music and script of Disney Animation.
Aladdin also appears in the storybooks A Book of Wizards and A Choice of Magic by Lud Manisanders .