What does it mean to have gold and jade on the outside and ruins on the inside?

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On the surface it looks beautiful, but inside it is already dilapidated. That is to say, "gold and jade are on the outside, but there is decay on the inside."

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My mother gave me two years to learn to adapt to the environment. She taught me to cook, use soap powder to wash clothes, practice walking posture, read people’s eyes, remember to close the curtains after lighting the lamp, look in the mirror to study facial expressions, and never tell jokes if you don’t have a genius for humor.

I am surprisingly stupid in terms of common sense in dealing with others. My two-year plan was a failed experiment. My mother's poignant warning had no effect on me except to throw my mind off balance.

There is a part of the art of living that I cannot appreciate. I know how to watch "Clouds in July", listen to the Scottish soldiers playing bagpipe (bagpipe), enjoy the wicker chairs in the breeze, eat salt water peanuts, appreciate the neon lights on rainy nights, and reach out from the double-decker bus to pick the tops of trees green leaves.

In situations where there is no interaction between people, I am filled with the joy of life. But I can't get over this little biting annoyance for a day. Life is like a gorgeous robe covered with fleas.

Source: From "The Genius Dream" by modern writer Zhang Ailing.

At the end of Dream of Genius, Zhang Ailing wrote: In situations where there is no communication between people, I am filled with the joy of life. But I can't get over this little biting annoyance for a day. Life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice. This sentence has become a classic line for all Zhang fans, catchy. But it also foreshadows Zhang Ailing’s own troubled and struggling life.

Some people say that in the article "Genius Dream", Zhang Ailing demonstrated extremely mature Chinese proficiency and clearly demonstrated her unique writing and language style.

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About the author:

Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 - September 1995), formerly known as Zhang Yong, pen name Liang Jing, Her ancestral home is Fengrun, Hebei Province, and she was born in Shanghai. She is a modern Chinese female writer. He started writing novels at the age of 7, and began publishing works in school magazines and magazines at the age of 12. From 1943 to 1944, he wrote and published novels such as "Agarwood Chips: The First Incense", "Agarwood Chips - The Second Incense", "Jasmine Pieces", "Love in a Fallen City", and "Red Roses and White Roses".

In 1955, Eileen Chang settled in the United States and wrote many English novels, but only one was published. After 1969, he mainly engaged in the research of classical novels and authored a collection of red studies, "A Nightmare in Red Mansions". He died in Los Angeles, USA, in September 1995 at the age of 75. There are "The Complete Works of Zhang Ailing" and the prose "Genius Dream" published in the world.

Zhang Ailing is a uniquely charming writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her life-long creations involve novels, essays, and script reviews, among which novels have the highest achievement. Zhang Ailing's novels transcended her time.

Her novels all show her personal characteristics in terms of material selection, conception, characterization, narrative structure and language skills, and have achieved outstanding achievements; The in-depth description of small characters is unmatched by any other writer in the 1940s.

Therefore, her novels cannot be attributed to any novel genre, but are unique existences and have made unique contributions to the history of Chinese novels.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Ailing