In 1944, Shanghai's "Legend" published Zhang Ailing's "The Golden Lock", which caused a sensation in the Shanghai literary scene. The famous translator and critic Fu Lei wrote praises, saying that Zhang's works are one of the most beautiful harvests in the literary world.
Thirty years ago in Shanghai, one night with the moon... We may not have caught up to see the moon thirty years ago. The young man thought that the moon thirty years ago should be a red and yellow wet halo the size of a copper coin, like a teardrop on The Cloud Xuan's letterhead, old and confused. The moon of thirty years ago recalled by the elderly was joyful, larger, rounder, and whiter than the moon in front of him; but looking back at the hard road after thirty years, even the best moon color could not help but be a little desolate.
Such a beginning, like no other, firmly grasps the reader.
I don't know if it is plagiarism, I remember that there was a movie in Spain, I used Zhang Ailing's description of the moon, that movie seems to be called "Lucia and her lover", a beautiful café waitress fell in love with a writer Lorenzo, bold pursuit, the two happily fell in love, the writer suddenly disappeared, the original writer once met a beautiful woman at the beach and gave birth to a daughter, the writer learned about it and looked for a daughter, when the story turned from a writer's love affair to another, it was the beginning of the memory, a tear dripped on the button, Transformed into a moon, the moon by the sea, the writer and lover in the sea playing. I don't know what this expression is called, but these two works have made me feel the same beauty.
Zhang Ailing evaluated people, one sentence is one sentence, you see the Zhenbao in this "Red Rose and White Rose": Zhenbao was born in a cold and humble place, if he did not fight for his own freedom, he was afraid that he would have to go to the student's will, and be a shopkeeper for a lifetime in a small circle of ignorance and ignorance. Now, when he came back from a foreign country to do things, he stood at the window of the window of the world, and it was really rare to get a free man, both in the environment and in thought.
A few words sketched an ideal image of a "promising youth" of that era.
The most wonderful thing is her metaphor about the "peach blossom fan". "Ordinary people's lives, no matter how good it is, are also "peach blossom fans", breaking their heads, blood splashing on the fans, and dyeing them slightly on top of them into a peach blossom. Zhen Bao's fan was still blank, and the pen was full of ink and the window was clear, just waiting for him to finish writing. ”
Chinese culture is broad and profound, Chinese emotions are also complex, this description also belongs to the category that can only be understood and ineffable, the life of ordinary people, blood splashed on the fan, slightly dyed into a peach blossom. How much of life's panic and self-deception there is, probably only middle-aged people can understand.
"There is also a faint shadow of a person on the blank space, like a delicate antique letterhead, and a slightly concave pink and purple costumed portrait is printed on the white paper. --There are two women who don't matter before the wife and mistress. "The slightly concave pink and purple costume portrait with the bottom is the essence of man's human nature. The sense of picture in Zhang Ailing's novel pays special attention to color collocation and artistic rendering, which only Chinese can read and understand art, which is completely Chinese culture.
For example, she described the ugliness of a person, Cao Qiqiao in "The Book of Golden Locks" hated her daughter-in-law, and the sentence that the lips "cut into a large plate" is not an objective description of the author, it is the vicious mother-in-law who says it, and the harm adds a few points.
"The First Burning Incense" describes Ge Weilong's love for Ge Qiqiqiao, like hot milk spilled out, and the pipe cannot be controlled. Divine strokes like this are everywhere.
Fu Lei's literary appreciation ability is naturally not low, so he is very concerned about Zhang Ailing's novel, as a critic, he is also more strict with Zhang Ailing's work, after the publication of Zhang Ailing's work "Love in the Fallen City", he compared the height of "The Golden Lock", proposed that "Love of the Fallen City" is too superficial, perhaps he has not yet read this novel, after all, this kind of writing about the love of men and women, it is not easy to enter the eyes of critics, Zhang Ailing is proud, specially wrote "His Own Article" for his own creative intentions, in fact, in refuting Fu Lei, And she deliberately emphasizes that she focuses on the ordinary life of small people, and she has always opposed others from imposing certain expectations on her from a grand perspective or commanding heights, which is also a lack of sympathy for Fu Lei's concern and criticism.
In fact, Fu Lei was too straight, and he probably did not expect that the point of his own private life under the mid-life crisis just fell into the hands of Zhang Ailing.
Zhang Ailing accidentally learned of Fu Lei's extramarital love, the heroine is Zhang Ailing's classmate Cheng Jia Liu, a stunning beauty, simple and kind, she is Fu Lei's student, Fu Lei is irritable in front of his wife, temperamental, only by asking Cheng Jia Liu to accompany him in the past can he settle down, Fu Lei's wife endures humiliation and burden, a lifetime of fu Lei as life, such a strange relationship, zhang Ailing mercilessly wrote into the "Yin Baoxuan Flower Building Society", a strange book title, completely found a condom to put the gossip into revenge fu Lei, Zhang Ailing also reflected later, saying that what she wrote was really bad, and she also admitted that she was writing Fu Lei, and she regretted everything she had done to Cheng Jialiu.
At that time, after the publication of this article, Fu Lei's reputation was also affected, and Fu Lei probably did not expect that a writer he had so highly regarded should be like this.