Love in Zhang Ailing's Works

Love in Zhang Ailing's works is not sweet, beautiful and complete in the usual sense, but more calculating, calm and mean. Most of her classic novels are love novels, and the characters in the novels are full of various calculations. Aunt calculates niece, sister calculates younger sister, and mother calculates children, which is more about mutual calculation between men and women, and love is the first calculation. The reason why Zhang Ailing can accurately grasp the calculation of love form is because of her growing experience.

Zhang Ailing 1920 was born in Shanghai. Her family is a declining aristocratic family. Although it has maintained its former grandeur, many places are crumbling. Zhang Ailing's father is cruel and cruel, and her mother abandoned her family in pursuit of the freedom she wanted. She juggled between her father, mother and stepmother, and grew up stumbling in open and dark calculations.

Growing up in such a loveless environment, Zhang Ailing's personality is very special. She is sensitive and suspicious, unsociable, and good at grasping everyone's thoughts, which provided rich content for her later novels. 1939, she was admitted to the University of London, because at the height of the war, she could not go to England, but entered the literature department of the University of Hong Kong. 1942, the Pacific War broke out and the University of Hong Kong closed. Zhang Ailing returned to Shanghai to make a living by writing. Many works, such as Love in the City, Red Rose and White Rose, Half-Life and The Golden Lock, have become classic love novels.

First, wrong love distorts human nature.

The heroine of The Golden Lock is Cao, who was born in the home of a small businessman. She runs a sesame oil shop at home and lives comfortably. Her parents decided to marry her to the second young master of the Chiang family. These two families belong to two classes. Originally, the Cao family couldn't climb this door, because the second young master of the Jiang family was a disabled person with rickets, and the rich woman didn't like it at all. Cao married at the command of his parents. Although she was the first wife, she was looked down upon by everyone in the Chiang family, and even the maids hated her. She finally survived until her husband died and her mother-in-law died, and she was assigned to the real estate and rented a house with her children.

The unhappy marriage twisted her humanity. The second young master she married was incapable of giving her love. She fell in love with the third young master, who flirted with her just to embezzle her property. Since then, her psychology has been distorted, thinking that men don't have a good thing and can't see their children get normal love. She let her daughter Chang 'an foot-binding become a joke between relatives and friends; When her daughter went to school, she messed up again, causing her daughter to drop out of school; His daughter finally got a lover, but he deliberately ruined her reputation and made her lose the possibility of getting married.

The same is true of her son Changbai, who was tempted to smoke by her, and her feelings for her son and daughter-in-law were ruined. Her daughter-in-law died tragically under her humiliation, and her son married another daughter-in-law. It didn't end well, so she gave up the idea of getting married. Under her strong control, her children accompanied her to smoke opium in a room without sunshine.

Cao's unhappy marriage was due to the calculation of her parents, who knew that the other party was a basket case and ruined her daughter's happiness for money and reputation. Cao lived a humiliating life in the Chiang family, and changed his happiness into gold bars. He can't calculate others, only his own children. She was afraid that others would covet her money and controlled the marriage between Changbai and Chang 'an, which led to the recurrence of the tragedy. In real life, there are also such controlling parents, who take being nice to their children as an excuse to intervene in what college their children go to, what job they look for and what kind of people they marry, and regard their children as private property. In fact, the stronger parents' desire for control, the lower their children's happiness. Respecting children's choices and sending them blessings of love is the best calculation.

Second, the correct match of the calculated matching love.

In the story of Love in a Fallen City, Fan Liuyuan, the male host, wants to find a woman with a good family background, so as to stabilize herself, change her image as a libertine, win recognition in the social field, gain recognition from her family, increase her moral authority within her family and gain more power and wealth. Bai Liusu, a female, found it difficult to get a foothold in the family because of a failed marriage. She is watched by her family every day, fearing that she will stay and share their money.

Two people occasionally meet and get to know each other at the dance and hit it off. Bai Liusu put all his eggs in one basket and went to Hong Kong to fight for Fan Liuyuan's love and legal marital status. Fan Liuyuan doesn't want to be bound by women, but she still makes love. Two loving hosts were fighting at the Diving Bay Hotel. Originally, Bai Liusu seemed to have lost, but just as Fan Liuyuan was preparing to leave Hong Kong, the Japanese army began bombing Repulse Bay, and Fan Liuyuan turned back to protect Bai Liusu. Indiscriminate bombing is a matter of life and death, which has contained Fan Liuyuan. The joy of tassel is not without sadness, enough, so much trouble, enough to be husband and wife for ten years.

Love is conditional. When you start a relationship, you must be able to occupy two utilitarian purposes, emotional purpose and sexual purpose. If all three are occupied, it is complete. Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan finally put the three conditions of money, affection and sex together in "Do or die", and they can start to get married in pairs.

Third, the disappearance of love under the balance of passion and dullness

White Rose and Red Rose is one of Zhang Ailing's most influential novels. The story of this novel is very ordinary, but it shows the balance of love between men and women. Tong Zhenbao, the hero of the story, ended his overseas study life at the beginning of the story and returned to work in Shanghai. He rented his classmate Wang Shihong's house and had an affair with Wang Shihong's wife Jiao Rui, but when Jiao Rui made sincere efforts to take a step forward, Tong Zhenbao chickened out for fear that his life would be affected.

With the help of his mother, he married the cowardly Meng. Unexpectedly, his life is very stable, but his feelings are derailed. He was out whoring, and his wife was having an affair with the little tailor at home. At the end of the story, he met Jiao Rui in the street, and found that the best days of Jiao Rui had passed, and there was a flashy middle-aged man. Tong Zhenbao calculated in front of love that what he can't get is always the best, and he doesn't love so much after he gets it. There is such a golden sentence in the book:

"Maybe, every man has had such two women, at least two. Married a red rose, over time, the red one turned into a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was a ray of light as bright as the foot of my bed; When you marry a white rose, the white rose is the rice grain on your clothes, and the red rose is the Zhu Shazhi in your heart. "