The Story of Jack and Peas

Jack is a teenager who lives with a single mother. The only source of income for his family is a cow. Until one day, the cow was old and could not produce milk to make money. Her mother asked Jack to take the cow to the market and sell it.

On the way to the market, Jack met a man who wanted to exchange "magic beans" for cows, and Jack agreed. When I got home, my mother found that Jack didn't make any money, but only bought some beans from people in unknown so. In a rage, she threw all the magic beans outside and ordered Jack to go to bed at once.

Overnight, magic beans grew rapidly. Jack climbed the beanstalk that stretched out into the sky, entered a paradise-like world, and broke into the house and castle where the giant lived.

When the giant came home, he found that his home was "human", but he didn't find Jack. Until the giant fell asleep, Jack stole a bag of gold coins and fled the place the same way.

Later, Jack went back to the giant's residence twice and stole other treasures while the giant was sleeping: a goose (or chicken) that laid golden eggs and a harp that could play automatically.

However, when Jack tried to leave with the harp, he woke the giant, so the giant chased Jack closely. Jack told his mother to cut off the beanstalk with an axe and let the giant fall to death. Jack and his mother lived happily with the treasure they got from the giant.

Extended data

Jack and the Pea is an English fairy tale and the most famous Jack story.

1734 first appeared in Jack? The story of Sprinkin and the Magic Bean appeared in Benjamin Tabatt 1807, but the most popular version is joseph jacobs's version (1890).

Some people think that Joseph's version may be closer to the version when the spoken language was circulated, because Benjamin's version contains the contents of preaching and teaching, and the version when the spoken language was circulated usually does not have these components.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Jack and the Magic Bean