What is the main content of Zhang Ailing's book Red Rose and White Rose?

Zhenbao, who came back from studying abroad, got a higher position in a foreign company. For the convenience of transportation, he rented the house of his old classmate Wang Shihong. When Zhen was in school, she had a first love named Rose.

He once won the reputation of "Liu Xiahui" for refusing the courtship of Rose. Wang Shihong has a charming wife, who always makes Treasure dream. On one occasion, Hong Shi went to Singapore to do business. After several struggles between spirit and flesh, Zhenbao was "imprisoned" by this wife named Jiao Rui on a rainy day.

To Treasure's surprise, Jiao Rui gave her true love this time. When she offered to tell Wang Shihong the truth, Treasure fell ill. In the ward, Zhen Bao told Jiao Rui the real side-he didn't want to take too much responsibility for this situation. Jiao Rui wiped away her tumultuous tears, strangely calmed down and walked out of his life.

With the help of her mother, Zhen Bao married a thin and quiet Meng with a sad sense of sacrifice. The bride gives the impression that she is just an ordinary white person, and can't arouse the sexual desire of Treasure.

Zhenbao began to go whoring outside. One day, however, he found a dull white rose smoker in his shadow and had a relationship with an ugly seamstress. Since then, Zhenbao has been playing with women openly outside, and he has been wandering around.

One day, he happened to meet Jiao Rui, the "red rose" in his life, on the bus. She is already a flashy middle-aged person. Years are relentless, flowers bloom and fall, and in tears, the red roses and white roses in Zhen Bao have become a mirage in reality. The old kindness is approaching the treasure bit by bit.

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As for the narrative of The Red Rose, Zhang Ailing set the tone at the beginning: "Such a woman, in a foreign country or very ordinary, will not work in China." This is a principle, an idea and a railing, which plays a leading role in the whole story, that is, Tong Zhenbao's life. Ethically and psychologically, the relationship between treasure and red rose is always a seesaw process between this principle and treasure.

From "whoring" throughout Zhen Xuan's life, we can see that in Zhen Xuan's world, white roses and red roses are not the obvious opposition between "yes" and "no", but the opposition between "singular" and "plural" objects of desire floating outside the main line of marriage life.

To be more clear, because it is plural, it can be changed to something else. Therefore, in the first half, that is, the section about the red rose, Zhang Ailing intensively joined the three roles of Paris prostitute, rose and Jiao Rui. This also makes it less sudden for Zhenbao to become a prostitute after marrying Yan Kun. After all, it stands to reason that he just ended a very "painful" love.

However, due to this diversity and floating, he rashly positioned Jiao Rui as a substitute. Even during their honeymoon, he admitted this rule, which made him regard it as an "external thing", even though he realized that he had real feelings for Jiao Rui.

Through the interpretation of Zhen Xuan's entanglement with the red and white roses, we can find that the reason why Zhen Xuan's ethics is absurd in Red is not because of his profit-seeking hidden under his performance personality. It can even be said that this profit-seeking ethics is just affirmed in the article, which is the "criminal" pleasure enjoyed by Jiao Rui and Zhenbao. Even if Jewel betrayed Jiao Rui, it was still out of a similar instinct. In order to make life better, we must do something, which is right in Zhang Ailing's view.

However, Zhenbao only raised this tendency to the level of authoritarianism. In order to create a "correct" world, it seems extreme and dogmatic, and even ignores its true feelings, and gradually slides into a ridiculous and sad situation. In the end, because of my blindness, I lack understanding of my situation and lack of planning for my desires. Instead, it has become an empty skin with no sense of family belonging for prostitutes to have fun. They are half red and not white, with a sallow face and a miserable life.

Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Rose and White Rose