“待嫁的凯特”等了9年,终于要嫁入王室了,全球几亿双眼睛都在艳羡这个幸运的灰姑娘,并追逐着她世纪婚礼的每一个细节。而这个现象也让很多人想入非非:欧洲王室其他的年轻王子们相继在平民世界里找到了自己的意中人,她们来自社会的各个阶层,甚至包括内衣模特儿、单身母亲或者有争议的政治犯的女儿……专事报道王室动态的记者更绘声绘色地宣称灰姑娘范式“就像爆炸一样,到处都流行”。虽然从一开始,人们就把“灰姑娘范式”更多地定义为一个不切实际的童话故事,但人们也始终无法遏制对灰姑娘之现实可能性的乐见其成。大概只要是有人类的地方就会有这样的传说:一位民间少女和一位高贵的王子偶然相遇,或者一位落魄书生遇见了一位骄傲的公主什么的。当然这中间肯定少不了很多磨难,不过结局肯定是他们从此过上了幸福生活。从欧洲到美洲,从生活中到荧屏上,王子和灰姑娘的美丽童话像一朵流浪的云彩,千百年来在我们耳边飘来飘去。为什么从古到今同一个故事重复了那么久还是有人听呢? “Kate to be married ” Wait for 9 years, and finally married into the royal family, the world hundreds of millions of pairs of eyes are envious of this lucky Cinderella, chasing her every detail of the wedding of the century. And this phenomenon has also left many people in perpetual paradise: the other young princes of the European royal family have succeeded in finding themselves in the civilian world, coming from all walks of life, including underwear models, single mothers or daughters of controversial political prisoners ... ... Reporters who cover the dynamic of the royal family even more vividly declare the Cinderella paradigm “just like the explosion, everywhere popular.” Although “Cinderella Paradigm” has more often been defined as an unrealistic fairy tale from the very beginning, it has not always been possible to curb the optimism about Cinderella’s reality. Probably as long as there is a human being, there is a legend that a folk girl encounters a noble prince by chance, or an absent scholar meets with a proud princess. Of course, there must be many hardships in the middle, but the end must have been a happy life for them. From Europe to America, from life to the screen, the princesses and Cinderella’s beautiful fairy tale are like a stray cloud that has drifted over our ears for centuries. Why has the same story been repeated for so long or has it been heard from time immemorial?