Zhang Ailing's Late Night and Its Interpretation

The matter of the east wind, and came to the world, peach blossom couldn't help blushing and drunk in Aunt Feng's arms. In this wind, wicker bent down to scratch the hair of pedestrians, and clusters of catkins, like light clouds falling from the feet of the spring god, formed a team, imitating the light snow flying all over the sky in February and flying into curtains everywhere.

Sandy's green grass has an obvious smell of alcohol, leaving traces of tourists. Everything is exciting to the extreme, maybe a little crazy? -In this colorful and prosperous spring!

There is only a lonely shadow, she, leaning against the railing; Her eyes just woke up from the dream of youth, and she was still sleepy. Looking at this crazy world, she seemed to grasp the mystery of life blankly. She is a laggard of the times. In the warm world of youth, she has been abandoned invisibly. She has no qualification and mood to follow those who stand in front of the times! When the sweet dream first woke up, all she had was emptiness and melancholy; I'm disappointed to lose my golden age.

Ahem! God gave life to people and created society. How can we only give us the most precious fleeting creative era in just over ten years? In this way, the butterfly in the ephemera is admirable.

They danced among the flowers in the short spring, and once the flowers were gone, they died happily in the spring, as if they had only come for dancing and pleasure all their lives, but they should be happier. Like human beings, how will the gray life of decades of wind and rain be spent after youth passes away like running water?

Unconsciously, she fell into the old man's garden. How embarrassing it is to find a hint! Besides, how can you fight the life like a movie? Especially her, she hated old people ten years ago! She used to travel overseas, whistle in the mountains, skate in the frozen harbor and talk in the factory. But what about now?

The past is long, and the heroic actions of that year are like smoke and clouds, without a trace. She also lamented that the face and arrogance of youth are gradually fading away. She is afraid of meeting her old friend. She changed her appearance and temperament, and nothing increased except their surprise and secret discussion. In order to escape, I came to this secluded corner, and flowers, birds, wind and the sun still worried her. She began to curse the overwhelming spring ... the light was green and dark, making midnight desolate.

In a corner of the darkroom, there came a mournful and dignified chime, accompanied by a faint chanting sound, "yellow lanterns, beautiful women are dying, as before." Her mind was full of thoughts, and then a cold tear flowed to her lips and sealed her trembling mouth. She wanted to say it but couldn't say it.

Towards Dusk is the first essay published by Zhang Ailing in the annual issue of Santa Maria in 1933. Published in Feng Zao 1933 of Shanghai Santa Maria Girls' School.

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Reading Twilight, who would have thought it was written by a child? It's really surprising that a 12-year-old child began to carve an adult's life with his own pen when his peers played house games.

The topic is about time. "Dying" is a classic image in China's literature, which makes readers imagine not only the dusk rising from the edge of the crown. With such a topic here, the author writes space and the scenery in space together. Write about the east wind, beautiful peach blossoms, wicker wrapped around the waist, catkins like light clouds under the feet of the spring god, and the tracks of cars printed on fine grass in the sand.

I can't bear it, scratch people's hair, get married, get drunk ... to imitate them and write a laissez-faire, indulgent and crazy spring. This first paragraph seems to focus on depicting the beauty of spring, but at the beginning, there is a phrase "an eventful east wind", suggesting that someone is bored with spring, so a character flashes for a moment, and the pink is "drunk in Feng Yi's arms" and suddenly disappears. But the hidden meaning in Many Things was precipitated by the appearance of Feng Yi.

As soon as I write about spring, people who hate spring reluctantly appear in the author's pen. "There is only a lonely shadow, she is leaning against the railing." This is Aunt Feng, who just woke up from a dream of youth, and wants to understand what is happening in front of her blankly. She turned out to be the slip girl written by the author! Spring in front of me is just a shadow of her past. From her sleepy eyes, the author read the mood of the characters at the moment.

"She" lingers, hesitates and struggles on the edge of dream and reality, and refuses to believe the truth of reality, just as she can't believe the illusion of dream. However, relentlessly, the dream of youth is fading away, leaving only the naked truth. True, it is that vibrant, thriving and colorful spring, and it is an eternal farewell to warm youth. She is no longer qualified to dance with the spring. All she can have is the emptiness, melancholy and sadness of the laggards.

The author pays close attention to the emotional changes of the characters. After waking up, emptiness, melancholy and sadness turned into a sigh of doubt, and the hatred of spring injustice turned into an accusation against the creator's incompetence. : "Cough! The sky is the sky; Since we have given people life and created the green and red of society, how can we be stingy and only give us the most precious fleeting creative era of more than ten years? "

How incongruous the fleeting spring of life is compared with the cyclical natural spring, which shows that the creator is unfair. Because I thought that I might as well be a butterfly with Shaoguang forever, my feelings were ups and downs. Why is there another human being? There is a long gray life after a short youth! Back to the criticism and questioning of the creator.

A fruitless question The author asked her protagonist to look for traces of youth for the last time in the trembling yearning for the future, and to make a final commemoration of youth. Her thoughts wandered aimlessly in the time and space of life, and she became more and more aware that she was caught in an embarrassing situation in life.

She seemed to see an old woman chanting in a low voice in the dark green light and shadow at night. Only the darkroom belongs to her, and only the bleak and monotonous voice accompanies her. Is it still her life that "the yellow roll is green, the beauty withers, and it is the same"? "A drop of cold tears flows to cold lips", which put an end to her youth.

Beauty is dying, beauty is easy to get old, but youth is difficult. This is an old and hot topic, and the idea is not new. It is also customary to compare with spring. It is rare that a child of 12 can manipulate language and skills so freely, and his writing is so ups and downs. What is more rare is that she has such insight into life.

She sneaked into the inner world of adults, calmly examined it again and again, and told the whole story of what she had gained effortlessly. In this familiar topic and idiomatic technique, Zhang Ailing melts into a lot of sadness and desolation, which seems to push this life experience to the extreme and prevent anyone from writing any more.

We might as well read this article as a mini psychological novel. You see, in the first paragraph, the author skillfully only lets the character show her face casually, and then hides out of sight, but it makes you feel that she is still there, but she just doesn't want to be peeped. She peeled off the psychology of the characters layer by layer until the inner activities of the characters were all unfolded, so that the past, present and future filled the eyes at the moment of the characters' thoughts.

In the psychological description of the first layer, the image of the youth is always touched, which avoids the disconnection between the previous background description and the psychological description of the later layers. You will also find that there is another climax in the novel, that is, in the illusion of the characters, an old woman, a dark room, a dim lamp, a chime and a chanting sound constitute a specific picture.

This character is very much like Zhang Ailing's mother. The woman in the work has been overseas. When Zhang Ailing was very young, her mother also studied abroad for many years. She returned to China at the age of eight or nine, and later divorced her father. She had ample opportunity to observe her mother's mental state. At this time, her mother was about thirty years old, similar to the characters in the works. Said her mother was the prototype in the work.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Twilight