1: "Legend" mostly depicts the living conditions of the middle and upper classes in Shanghai and Hong Kong people during the Anti-Japanese War, including their chaotic sexual relationships, marriage relationships and family relationships. The content of "Legend" tells people that there is no love in the world, at most there is a veil of tenderness. It expresses the common confusion, loss and madness in the deformed commercial social life circle that was a combination of Western modern civilization and Eastern feudal culture in the specific period of the 1940s.

2: The first edition of "Legend" contains ten short stories and short stories published by Zhang Ailing in 1943-1944. They are: "Agarwood Chips·The First Incense", "Agarwood Chips·The First Incense" "Two Burners of Incense", "Jasmine Fragrance Tablets", "Heart Sutra", "Withering Flowers", "When You Were Young", "Love in a Fallen City", "The Golden Lock", "Blockade", "Glazed Tiles"; a new chapter was added in the reprint Chapter "Legend·Reprinted Words". When the "Legend Edition" was published in 1947, five short stories were added, namely: "Red Roses and White Roses", "Relentless Love", "Hongluan Jubilee", "Osmanthus Steaming·A Xiao's Sad Autumn", "Waiting" , there is also a preface "A Few Words to Tell the Readers" and a postscript "Days and Nights in China". Since then, the "Collection of Zhang Ailing's Short Stories" published by Hong Kong Tianfeng Publishing House and Taiwan's Crown Magazine respectively are copies of the "Legendary Enhanced Edition". Among them, the Hong Kong Tianfeng edition has a preface written by Zhang Ailing.

"Agarwood Chips·The First Incense": When Weilong opened the closet, she couldn't help but recall the night she first came here this spring, when she tried on new clothes behind someone's back, and how nervous she was at that time emotions. Three months passed in a blink of an eye. She was wearing clothes, eating, and playing. She was also a little popular in social circles. She had tried everything that ordinary girls longed for. Is there anything so cheap in the world? It seems that things like today are inevitable. This may not be the first time that Mrs. Liang sacrificed a young girl to win over Situ Xie. She needs Weilong to make the same sacrifice, and it may not be limited to this time. The only way to give up is to leave here.

"Agarwood Chips·The Second Burning Incense": Roger took the car to the high street, thinking all the way that he took this matter too seriously. It is normal for girls to be shy and shy. Growing up in a special environment, they may be more confused than others; their cohabitation life is not without hope of success. The current Hong Kong is the background of yesterday's happy memories, but they can go to Japan or Hawaii for their honeymoon together. In that remote and beautiful place, he can try to give her a little love education. Love education! Those kind of disgusting terms will always arouse his disgust. At that moment, he almost wished that he would marry a more humane, experienced and bad woman, a woman who did not need "education of love".

"Jasmine Tablets": Chuanqing thought that this person's blood might be flowing in his veins. Oh, what if...what kind of fruit would it be? It should be a light blue, crystal-clear and juicy fruit, like a lychee without a pit, sweet with a bit of bitterness inside. If... if his mother had been a little willful and selfish, and at the last minute of saying goodbye to Yan Ziye, under the control of emotion, she might have changed her original intention, if she hadn't been so forward-looking and backward-looking behind! Does she really care about the future? Did she think about her future children? She killed her child! Chuanqing didn't know that his condemnation of his mother was unfair. She was a girl of seventeen or eighteen at that time, and it was rare to have such a strong moral sense. Anyone who encounters a problem that is difficult to solve can only "do what his heart feels comfortable with". Could he blame his mother?

"Heart Sutra": Xiaohan stood at the door, stunned for a while, and then walked into the guest room. The balcony was still half basking in the sun, and her mother was still squatting under the pergola, pruning bonsai. Xiaohan ran to the balcony in two steps and kicked the green porcelain flower pot into the ditch with a loud sound. Mrs. Xu was startled and looked at her with clasped hands. Before she could say anything, Xiaohan followed the force of the kick and fell on the bamboo fence. He was about to cry, but couldn't, and his face was so hard that he couldn't. Red, just dry breath. Mrs. Xu stood up and said angrily: "What do you think this is?" Xiaohan took a breath and gritted his teeth and said: "Hello! You are so indulgent to them! Dad is living with Duan Lingqing, do you know?"< /p>

"When You Are Young": It is said that if a well-behaved woman knows that someone likes her, unless she plans to marry that person, she should stay away from him. This is true in China and also in foreign countries.

But... who doesn't like to associate with people who like themselves? Does she have to associate with people who don't like her? Qinxia may not have any other intention. Don't misunderstand him, he misunderstood just like she did. Don't make the same mistake again and again...is it really a misunderstanding?

"Love in a Fallen City": Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan, a pair of realistic and mediocre people, were thrown together by fate like a throw of dice in the chaos of war, and they experienced "one moment" A bit of sincerity between ordinary couples. Pick --- "Tassel has reached this point, but regrets that she has Yanagi Yuan by her side. A person seems to have two bodies, and she is in double danger. A bullet can't hit her, but it might hit him. If he dies If she was disabled, her situation would be even more unimaginable. If she was injured, she would have no choice but to die in order to avoid dragging him down. Even if she died, she would not die alone. She thought the same way. She didn't know anything else. At this moment, she only had him, and he only had her. "

"The Story of the Golden Lock": Qiqiao lowered her head, bathed in the light, and looked at her quietly. Tiny music, tiny joy... Over the years, she has been playing hide-and-seek with him, but they just can't get close. It turns out that there is still today! But no, this half of my life is over - the flower-like age has passed. Life is so complicated and unreasonable. Why did she marry into the Jiang family in the first place? For money? No, in order to meet Ji Ze, because she was destined to fall in love with Ji Ze. She raised her face slightly, and Ji Ze stood in front of her, clasping his hands on her fan and pressing his cheek against it. He has also aged ten years, but he is still the same person after all! Was he coaxing her? He wanted her money—how much money had she gotten from selling her life? Just this thought made her furious.

"Blockade": The tram stopped, but people on the road began to run. People on the left side of the street ran to the right side of the street, and people on the right side ran to the left. The iron doors of all shops are closed. The ladies were pulling at the iron bars like crazy, shouting: "Let us come in for a moment! I have children and elderly people here!" However, the door was still closed tightly. The people inside the iron gate and the people outside the iron gate looked at each other helplessly, fearing each other.

"Glazed Tiles": Mr. Yao has seven daughters, big and small, each one more beautiful than the last. Strangely enough, classical beauty is popular in society, and the girl born to Mrs. Yao has an oval face. The oval face is out of fashion, replaced by the pretty oval face. Mrs. Yao’s new child has an oval face. Westerners' admiration for big eyes and long eyelashes was introduced to China, and Mrs. Yao translated it with faithful and fluent translation without any distortion. Model beauties of the Yao family are never in danger of falling behind and follow suit. Suitable for the needs of the times, it is really beautiful and loved by heaven and man.

"Red Roses and White Roses": Maybe every man has had two women like this, at least two. Marry a red rose, and over time, the red one will become a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, while the white one will remain "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; marry a white rose, and the white one will become a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, but the red one will It's a cinnabar mole on the heart. This is not the case in Zhenbao. He has a beginning and an end, and is methodical. He is, on the whole, the most ideal modern Chinese character. Even if the things he encounters are not entirely ideal, if he asks his heart, talks to his heart, and adjusts them a few times, he will become as if he is ideal. Everything has its place.

"Show Mercy": The hot paper bag was so hot in his hand that it felt like a trance. Through the layers of clothes, he could feel her shoulders; through the shoulder pads on his coat, and the shoulder pads on her coat, that was the woman he was now, gentle, classy, ??and a beauty two years ago. . This time, he didn't rush into marriage rashly, but he had planned it well in advance so that he could enjoy some happiness in his later years to make up for the unsatisfactory past. But... he handed her a bag of chestnuts with a smile, and she poured out two and peeled them off to eat. Reflecting the dark road and the brown trees, her face was red and stern, and her eyebrows were superficial. Even if you don’t dress up, it’s like painting your eyebrows. Mr. Mi looked at her with a smile. He beat and scolded the woman in the past, but to her, he sometimes said "I'm sorry" and sometimes said "Thank you", but it was just "Thank you, I'm sorry".

"Hongluan Jubilee": It rained on the wedding day. The Lou family was worried at first, fearing that there would be too few guests, but that was an exaggeration, because nowadays, people who have given gifts will never refuse to come. Eat them.

The ceremony was held at three o'clock in the afternoon, and at 2:30, there were already many people in the auditorium. They were naturally divided into two groups. The guests from the groom's family were on one side, and the guests from the bride's family were on the other side. Everyone was smiling, chatting, and walking around lightly, and there were also some Pulled out a chair and sat down. In the vast hall, there are large vermilion pillars with green dragons coiled around them; there are black glass walls, and there is a small golden Buddha sitting in a black glass niche. The oriental image of the old foreign lady is all here. There is also an endless Beijing carpet with dark flowers. When you step on it, you can't touch the flowers, as if there is a layer between them. The entire large room filled with flowers is a glass ball with colorful floral patterns in the center. The guests are all flies crawling carefully along the surface of the ball, unable to climb in.

"Steamed Osmanthus·A Xiao Beiqiu": The master is back. Passing by the kitchen door, he pokes his head in and calls softly: "Hello, grandma!" Her man has already hid on the balcony, with his hands behind his back. Look at the scenery. The owner spent 3,000 yuan to hire a person, and he wished that when he came back, she would fly and peck at his head like a tame pigeon, so he kept ringing the bell one after another, keeping her busy. She was getting ice from the refrigerator, and her man stood behind her and whispered: "I'll come tonight." Ah Xiao said in annoyance: "It's so hot!" The pavilion where she and Baishun lived was really like a steamer. ——But she suddenly felt that he was standing behind her, very lonely; he was not used to asking for help—at least he had never asked for help from her. ...

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