Shanghai Puppet Play The Little Match Girl will be staged in Baiyun Children's Theater from 18th to 20th of the month.

　　The Little Match Girl tells a sad story about a girl selling matches. Since it is published, the story has been welcomed by uncountable children all over the world.

　　Born under extremely poor conditions in the Danish town Odense (the Island of Funen), Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a master of the fairy tales in the 19th century.As a child he was highly dissociable,self-contemptuous, and emotional.All these characters and his unattractive appearance made him very unpopular.The Ugly Duckling was considered his autobiographical work.His early years were full of misadventures.His father was a shoemaker and his mother worked as a washerwoman. Andersen received little early education because of poor family circumstances.But it was his devotion and dedication to literature that finally contributed to his great success.