Since ancient times, the lightness of literati has been a very common phenomenon, and it still exists today. Literati are a very special group, they are talented and thoughtful, and the vast majority of literati even have arrogance that ordinary people do not have.
However, the literati also have their own shortcomings, such as good wine color of cologne, good food on the eastern slope, Wang Anshi is more stubborn, etc., perhaps because their aura is too strong, they themselves can not easily find.
Ordinary people can see but do not say, because they do not have contact with the circle of literati, but the literati can see each other's shortcomings more clearly, and even use a magnifying glass to see, so some shortcomings that others cannot see can be seen by the literati.
In modern times, the literati we know as Light are Lu Xun and Xu Zhimo, Hu Shi and Guo Moruo, but this time, I am not talking about them, it is Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing.
1. A hundred years is like a day
As a writer and translator, Yang Dai has a countless aura, but his experience is very tortuous. When Yang Dai first worked at the Foreign Language Institute, he received some unfair treatment because he had offended the leadership. At that time, the foreign language group collectively compiled the "History of Western Literature", excluding Yang Dai; the researchers of the National Literary Congress and the Institute of Literary Research were all representatives of the congress, but only Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu were not.
However, she was not defeated by difficulties, but worked hard day after day, and she shined in the literary world with her talent and unremitting efforts.
In 1949, Yang Dai translated the famous Spanish novel "The Little Leper". In the 10 years from 1949 to 1959, Yang Dai translated countless literary works and overcame many difficulties in translation. Western literary works translated into Chinese have such a problem: that is, the number of words is not enough, but Yang Chen's translation solves this problem very well.
Yang Dai is not only proficient in many foreign languages, but also translates many famous Western literary works, and her own works are also famous all over the world. Works such as "The Two of Us" and "Walking to the Edge of Life - Asking Yourself and Answering Yourself" are all written by Yang Dai with her own life experience. Among them, "We Both" tells the story of Yang Dai and his wife and daughter Qian Zhen, but unfortunately, the daughter went first by herself, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people, and that feeling and grief cannot be described in words.
Yang Dai's life was tortuous, but fortunately she and her other half Qian Zhongshu came to the end hand in hand, and they lived into the envy of many husband and wife partners. If you use a sentence to describe Yang Dai, it should be "a hundred years as a day", which is not only saying that Yang Dai has worked hard for a hundred years, but also saying that the love between Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu is still the original appearance nearly a hundred years.
Second, young girls have talent
The talented daughter Zhang Ailing is a rich family, and her grandmother is the eldest daughter of Li Hongzhang. On September 30, 1920, in a bungalow, Zhang Ailing was born, and Zhang Ailing, who was watched by her father, mother, nurse, and maid, gradually smiled. Zhang Ailing's childhood was beautiful, and time passed day by day. Unfortunately, such a beautiful picture disappeared with the divorce of her parents when she was 8 years old.
After her parents divorced, her father found her stepmother, a traditional woman who dressed her in the slightest. Not only that, but in the stepmother's conception, girls should marry early, rather than staying at home all day.
The father is a smoker, which is why the mother divorces the father. Once Zhang Ailing had an argument with her parents, her father was angry and threw the smoking gun at her, and in an instant, Zhang Ailing was smashed to the head and bleeding. Poor Zhang Ailing was also locked up. Imprisoned in the family compound, there is no warmth of the past, only ruthlessness and coldness.
Many people hate Zhang Ailing's coldness, but they don't know that this is the trauma she has left in her childhood. On a dark and windy night in a month, Zhang Ailing escaped from the cage, and at this moment she made up her mind to break with her father and break with her father completely.
Zhang Ailing, with grief, turned to her mother, who asked her if she wanted to go to school or marry? Zhang Ailing did not want to be bound by marriage like a traditional woman, and she replied that she wanted to go to school.
At this time, the mother cast a disgusted look, and in her opinion, her daughter chose this way, and she had another burden. During this time of living with her mother, Zhang Ailing was very unhappy, and in her opinion, the reason why her mother took her in was because she was her daughter, nothing more, just because of this identity. So it is not difficult to explain why Zhang Ailing has such a seemingly strange personality, which is caused by her experience.
However, without this special experience, perhaps she would not have the literary status she has today. Her famous novels "The Book of golden locks", "Love in the City", "Half Life", "Overlord Farewell" and so on are all familiar to us. It can be said that Zhang Ailing is a clear stream in the literary world.
"If you understand the past me, it is not difficult for you to understand the current me." This is Zhang Ailing's most reasonable quote, and it is also her real life.
Third, harsh evaluation
It is said that literature can reflect a person's personality very well, and Zhang Ailing is also the same. Yang Dai had an evaluation of Zhang Ailing, which was very harsh, but what she said seemed to be the truth.
"But her appearance is embarrassing, a face of 'peanut rice', the articles she wrote, the writing is good, but it has been humbled." From this passage, we can see that Yang Dai made an evaluation of Zhang Ailing's appearance, writing, and artistic conception of the work. In general, in addition to the writing, Zhang Ailing's others are not very satisfactory to Yang Dai.
Regarding Zhang Ailing's appearance, Yang Dai said that her impression of Zhang Ailing's appearance comes from her niece's description. Her niece and she were classmates at the same school. Unlike other students, Zhang Ailing likes to wear strange clothes, but her face is not clean and full of pimples.
In fact, Yang Dai's description of Zhang Ailing's appearance is not necessarily untrue. Zhang Ailing's personality has been relatively isolated since childhood, and her mother is not good for her, so it is not difficult for us to speculate that her usual food, clothing and living environment are not good. Under such conditions, how can she take care of her skin? And Zhang Ailing is not a person who pays attention to appearance, which is not difficult to explain why Zhang Ailing will be such a shape.
As for the writing and the artistic conception of the work, a sentence can show that the old saying "the word is like its person", in fact, the text is also like its person. Zhang Ailing has a black history, strictly speaking, it is not her fault, but she has also been ridiculed by the world for a long time because of this matter.
This matter is her love with Hu Chenglan, it is said that Hu Chenglan took the initiative to pursue her, and at that time she was still just a young girl, and she accepted Hu Chenglan's love in the spring heart, but what she did not expect was Hu Chenglan's later. Zhang Ailing, who woke up like a dream, was heartbroken and made up her mind to be alone and no longer love in this life.
4. Summary
However, Yang Dai's evaluation of Zhang Ailing is actually only once, and the number of times the two have met is not much. Zhang Ailing has great respect for Yang Dai, and gives her high praise for her articles.
Strictly speaking, Yang Dai is Zhang Ailing's predecessor, and it is normal for Zhang Ailing to be criticized as a junior. At that time, Zhang Ailing was only a young girl, and she had just entered the literary world for a short time, so such an evaluation was also reasonable.
Zhang Ailing's life is tragic, and Yang Dai's life has twists and turns but also happiness, both of them have met their love in that most beautiful year, but love makes Yang Dai's life happy, but it has become the last straw to kill Zhang Ailing.