Zhang Ailing's father is a typical young woman, deeply influenced by the atmosphere and tradition of the old society, while her mother is a rebellious woman influenced by western culture, who has gone to France to study with her sister-in-law many times. Then my parents finally divorced. His father brought a stepmother like a prostitute. She lives in this crevice and is influenced by both eastern and western cultures.
She has three families, one is her father's, one is her mother's and the other is her sister-in-law's. She grew up in this special environment. On the one hand, due to historical changes, the golden age of feudal literati is gone forever, and the Zhang family is declining; On the one hand, these ancient aristocratic families still maintain a facade and live a ostentatious and luxurious life. On the other hand, the colonial culture brought the romantic freedom advocated by western society. On the one hand, smoking opium, raising aunts, visiting clubs, on the other hand, playing the piano, dancing and liberating women. She grew up in such an environment.
Influenced by her old family in her childhood, she studied classical Chinese in a family "private school". Later, she went to the American-run Santa Maria Girls' School to study English, mathematics, science, western history and other courses. Her mother wanted to train her into a "western lady" and teach her to draw the piano. Her growth is also accompanied by China's colonial history, with the intersection and integration of things.
He was very clever at the age of eight and wrote novels at the age of nine. Many works were published in middle school.
However, her life is unfortunate. Her father and stepmother smoked opium every day, so naturally they didn't educate and take care of her. Below her, there is a younger brother. The stepmother is a person with no self-cultivation, and my father is very angry with her because of her mother's rebellion.
She was imprisoned for dozens of days, and finally escaped, following her mother's life and fantasizing about the free life in the West. Her mother taught her all about life in the west, but she soon found that she didn't adapt to the "western lady" school and finally gave her up because she had no financial resources.
After the fall of Shanghai, she studied at the University of Hong Kong, which made her feel many changes in gangs, family affairs and state affairs, the conflict of secular culture and the exposure of human nature, which made her feel desolate about this society and the world. These two words stand out most in her works. These are particularly prominent in her prose. Both Zhang Kan and Gossip have plain sentences about people's words, but there is a cold and profound resistance to the secular.
The characters in her works are also ordinary members around us. Bai Liusu in Love in the City is not as ethereal as Qiong Yao's characters. She is smart, but she is also a person in life. Her feelings are for survival. The destruction of a city made her marriage. Can it be said that it is a much-told story? "Red roses. White roses "pale smoky birds, those once bright red roses have turned brown in life." Ni in the cartoon, countless sadness and seven cleverness in the golden lock, used to be many flowers, but they all turned into vulgar hay after a short period of splendor. What did the squeezed halo become?
Her Fragments of Aquilaria Fragments tells in a faint fragrance, telling the helplessness of life, the deeper incomprehensible emotions in human nature, what is normal and what is abnormal, and it is difficult to determine. What kind of life is a satisfactory life, how to choose the road of life and what kind of sacrifice to use? Wei Long sold her whole life to her feelings, just as she said to her husband when she saw a teenage prostitute being rudely taken away by some sailors: In fact, I am just like her, except that she was forced, and I volunteered. That kind of pain knocks heavily on people's hearts.
I like to watch her Farewell My Concubine. That kind of desolation and sadness can't be expressed by the words "I won't cross Jiangdong". Her "Jasmine Fragrance" makes people's throats choke, but everything in it is not a portrayal of life.
Her essay "Love" has been praised by many people: among thousands of people, you met the person you met, and in the boundless wilderness of time, you happened to catch up, neither too early nor too late. There is nothing else to say, but gently ask, "Oh, are you there?" Just a few words can trigger many helpless feelings in people's hearts.
Her "whispers" revealed her feelings for home, her helplessness and her sadness for her hometown. Talking about painting, reading, dancing, music, women, writing and changing clothes makes people feel what a special woman she is. Her prose is colorful, handsome, sharp-edged and humorous. In writing style, she is quite different from other female writers and forms her own family. It's all about the daily life of citizens, and the diet of men and women is fading out. The general statement is well-founded, expressing the inner spirit of human nature with unadorned sentences.
Her love affair with Hu Lancheng may have ended because she used the word "desolation" for people, leaving her alone for the first half of her life. Because of her intelligent knowledge and self-experience and perspective on the loss of affection and feelings, she has thoroughly seen through this point and summed it up in one sentence: "a chic and desolate gesture." She tore off the false coat with her endurance and consciousness, and she was the one with more solid consciousness: breaking the female myth and "standing naked in the sun".
Although she has unparalleled talent, she can't help being lonely all her life. When she was young, because of a relationship with Hu Lancheng and his family, she had the same resentment as in the old days. It was only in my old age that I found someone I could rely on, and that was Yala. He is ten years older than her. He is also a writer and war writer. "Two frozen snakes huddled together to keep warm." That life was ordinary and difficult, but she found her own heart, but he died soon.
Her life is a legend, and her unconventional writing style is unparalleled. She restored the true nature of love between men and women, the essence of marriage and family, and the romantic ideal state to the true state of human existence, endowed it with its naked true nature, and attributed all affairs to the mundane customs of life. Zhang Ailing transcended that era. She is a miracle among women writers, and her ideological and artistic influence will be far-reaching and lasting.