Why are there seven dwarfs in Snow White? Not more or less?

Snow White is from Grimm's fairy tale, written by the German brothers Grimm. 7 has been a mysterious number since ancient times. Many people like 7 for no reason, and so does China.

7 has many special meanings:

7 is the number of gods, and 7-star maps are not allowed to be used by humans.

In the west, 7 is considered a very magical number. It is regarded as a more complex and powerful model by mysticism.

Seven-pointed star is the most elusive and manipulated magic circle in mysticism. It has too much uncertainty. The legendary sorcerer summoned by the Seven-pointed Star is usually a heavyweight archangel or demon. Because the summoned creature is powerful, it often has a negative effect on the sorcerer. In western culture, the seven-pointed star symbolizes unknown and abnormal changes.

Tarot cards have a 3*7 six-pointed star system, and 777 also represents good luck, while China also has a saying that people have seven souls.

The cycle of the musical scale is 1-7, the rainbow has seven colors, God made the world in seven days (the last day of rest), and the Bible talks about the seven deadly sins. In purgatory, there are seven sins that thrive because people love the wrong person: pride, jealousy, anger, greed, greed and lust. There are also seven candlesticks in the sky, representing seven churches, seven lamps representing seven kinds of gods' spirits and seven kinds of blessings, which are respectively corresponding to the seven sins: wisdom, intelligence, strategy, ability, knowledge, piety and fear of God.

The number 7 appears not only here, but also frequently in ancient Greek mythology. It seems that God created the world and human beings in seven days, which is of great significance to westerners from ancient times to the present, and is Satan in ontology and modern human nature! Dante tells people about his sins with the help of 7, hoping that mankind can atone. Go find grace.

Europeans have thought that the number seven is mysterious since ancient times, which should have been put forward by the ancient Greeks.

Because many coincidences are related to seven. For example, the Greeks believe that nature is composed of four elements: fire, water and land, while the basic composition of society is family, which is composed of three elements: father, mother and child. Therefore, the world composed of nature and society has seven basic elements.

For another example, the ancient Greeks believed that the basic figures of the world were squares, triangles and the most perfect circles (Pythagoras school held a similar view. ) The angles of these figures add up to seven.

In a word, the number 7 is mysterious, so I like it for no reason. The reason why the author chose 7 as the number of dwarfs is only known to the author himself, but it is always inseparable from the mystery of 7. Of course, you may just like 7.