"It's a beautiful and intimate story!" Zhang Ailing said very well, because this is the only love story in Zhang Ailing's pen that has a happy ending, but a closer reading finds that the happy ending does not weaken the tragedy of this novel, but makes people feel a little miserable and desolate, for Zhang Ailing, her marriage is unfortunate, so she wrote her desire for love into the book.
And "Allure of Love" also reflected the women at that time hoped to change their life status through marriage, even in the contemporary era, such ideas are still emerging, this book is from 1943, when Zhang Ailing was only in her early twenties, many of her love novels are also from this time, no one can imagine that Zhang Ailing, who has not yet talked about love at that time, can write such a tragic and realistic novel, all due to the marriage of her parents and the betrayal of Hu Lancheng. This kind of negative marriage values has created her unique imprint of Zhang's literature, telling the work from a sensitive and slightly paranoid female perspective, and being good at cutting into the story from a female perspective.
"Love in the Fallen City": The story takes place in the 1930s, the heroine Zu Shang was once a former Qing Hanlin, the family is also relatively wealthy, named White Tassel (later referred to as tassel), but unfortunately the good days did not take long to fall in the middle of the family road, the tassel suffered from grievances and the world was cold, so she urgently wanted to rely on marriage to change such a state of life, so she married the young master Tang Yiyuan of the Tang family in Shanghai, did not expect that this Tang Yiyuan was not a good person, as a playboy, he was the norm, in addition to smoking big smoke Instead of doing business, he took a concubine when Tassel was pregnant, which eventually led to a miscarriage, so Tassel chose to divorce Tang Yiyuan, and the first marriage ended.
The second marriage also experienced many twists and turns, the male protagonist (Fan Liuyuan) appeared at this time, he was born in England, his parents died from childhood, so he obtained a large inheritance, but also a playboy, so the Bai family arranged for Fan Liuyuan and Tassel's sister Baoluo to have a blind date, and Fan Liuyuan did not have any interest in Baoluo when facing the blind date, but instead looked at the tassels that fell into the country, and also invited her to dance three dances, the wind and dusty face of the tassels, Fan Liuyuan's graceful figure attracted Fan Liuyuan deeply, and the two people who would not have any intersection in the first place sparked a spark.
But Fan Liuyuan did not take long to return to Hong Kong, fringe also had a good feeling for this man in his heart, unsurprisingly, Fan Liuyuan invited Mrs. Xu to invite tassels to travel to Hong Kong, fringes know that this is an opportunity, so she plans to gamble once, she came to Hong Kong, here she met Fan Liuyuan, the purpose of fringe's trip is also very obvious, is to test whether Fan Liuyuan wants to marry himself, from all indications, Fan Liuyuan is good for himself, but has never shown the idea of getting married, which makes tassels very careful, During this time, the two watched movies together, drank coffee, ate good food, walked and chatted, and such intimate behavior made others jokingly call the tassel "Mrs. Fan" And the tassel could only smile awkwardly and did not respond to anything.
Tassel has always wanted to get married in her heart, but she always knows that Fan Liuyuan has no such idea at all, and can only try her best to restrain herself from having a relationship with Fan Liuyuan, because Tassel does not want to be someone else's lover, what she wants is just a committed marriage.
Finally, on a starless night in a month, Tassel received a phone call from Fan Liuyuan, who asked without a front note: "I love you, do you love me?"
Tassel paused for a moment and replied, "You already know why I came to Hong Kong, and you still ask such a question?"
The two already knew each other's thoughts, tassels did not have much love for Fan Liuyuan, she just wanted to get rid of the status quo, and Fan Liuyuan only wanted a sincere love, this phone call will be all the facts and disks.
Fan Liuyuan finally said a bunch of words that summed up in one sentence: "Tassel... You don't love me! ”
What Tassel heard was nothing more than Fan Liuyuan's reasons for not wanting to get married, and the phone call made both of them unhappy, so Tassel returned to Shanghai the next day.
Although he returned to his mother's house, his situation was still not optimistic, the Bai family always thought that Tassel had a relationship with Fan Liuyuan, and was already a wandering woman, but in fact, the two did not even hold hands, and this day lasted for several days with ridicule.
Since the tassel left, Fan Liuyuan missed her more and more, so he sent a telegram to the tassel, inviting the tassel to Hong Kong again, facing the family's unwelcome tassel can only gamble again, because she knows that Fan Liuyuan likes herself, and the tassel has come to Hong Kong again with such a belief.
This time is different from the past, the two long-time reunions of the deceased just met, they hugged each other tightly, tassels stayed in a familiar hotel, the two did not have the original temptation, but Fan Liuyuan still did not want to get married, tassel also put down his reticence, neither took the initiative nor refused, so they had a relationship for the first time.
After only a week of this kind of day, Fan Liuyuan said that he was going on a business trip, I was afraid that it would take a year and a half to come back, Fan Liuyuan also arranged for the maid to take care of the tassel's life, gave her money, at least she did not need to be ridiculed by her mother's family, completely got rid of them, and the material satisfaction made her temporarily let go of her attachment to marriage.
Great love is often produced in disasters, and soon after, the Japanese shelled Hong Kong, and the fringed house was also implicated, afraid, fearful, uneasy, surrounded by tassels,
At this moment, Fan Liuyuan returned, it turned out that he had received the news of the Japanese bombing of Hong Kong, so he hurried back, and the tassel seemed to grasp the life-saving straw and hugged Fan Liuyuan tightly.
After experiencing this disaster, but also well aware of the importance of each other, after the war subsided, Fan Liuyuan personally proposed marriage, so the two stepped on the palace of marriage, became an ordinary couple, living a simple life, think carefully if there is no such disaster, no one knows what the fate of the tassel will be next, or guard the empty house, or endless waiting.
The ending seems to be beautiful, but Zhang Ailing is just using the guise of love to describe the actual humanity, the characters in her story follow the laws and logic of daily life, and therefore often resonate with us ordinary people, which is the greatness of Zhang Ailing, dead and alive, and Zi cheng. Holding the hand of the son, and the son with the old, this is the most common poem in the novel, I think this is a story full of tragedy, but there is no lack of flower girl's vision of love, of course, here also refers to Zhang Ailing.
In fact, the spiritual desolation and dilemma expressed by Zhang Ailing are closer to the essence of life, and we do not lack such examples in life, and it is obviously undesirable to blindly want to change our status quo through marriage.
Well, Lu Ming felt very touched after reading this book, I hope you can also have such feelings after reading it, of course, this article only represents my personal opinion, if there is any offense, please forgive me.
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