Fengrun cultural celebrity - Zhang Ailing

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Zhang ailing

Brief introduction

Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 – around September 1, 1995), formerly known as Zhang Xuan, pen name Liang Jing, originally from Fengrun, Hebei, was born in Shanghai, and was a modern Chinese female writer.

Biography

In 1924, private school education began, and her mother and aunt went to Europe to study, and Zhang Ailing was supervised by her aunt and grandmother.

In 1927, while reading poetry and memorizing the scriptures in a private school, he began to write novels.

In 1928, his father took Zhang Ailing's siblings back to Shanghai from Tianjin. Start learning painting, English and piano.

In 1930, at the insistence of his mother, he entered the Huang's Elementary School run by the American Church to attend the sixth grade, and changed his name to Zhang Ailing.

In 1931, he wrote the first novel with a complete plot in elementary school, which was circulated among his classmates. In the autumn of the same year, he entered the Shanghai Santa Maria Girls' School.

In 1933, he published his first essay "Twilight" in the journal of Santa Maria Girls' School, "Phoenix Algae", and began to learn to write old poems with his father. Subsequently, he successively published articles such as "Autumn Rain", "Cow", "Overlord Farewell", "On the Future of Cartoon Painting" and so on.

In 1937, Xia graduated from The St. Mary's Girls' School in Shanghai.

In 1943, Zhang Ailing published the novel "Agarwood Crumbs: The First Burning Incense" in "Violet", which made Zhang Ailing a hit in the Shanghai literary circle and came to prominence.

In the early spring of 1944, Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng met, knew and fell in love with Hu Lancheng because of the novel "Blockade". Soon after, he married him.

In the fall of 1955, Zhang Ailing took the "President Cleveland" cruise ship to the United States.

In February 1956, he moved to New England and met the American playwright Raya; in August, he met Raya and married after six months of acquaintance.

In 1961, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Denmao Film Company, Zhang Ailing went to Taiwan to collect materials and went to Hong Kong to create the film script "Dream of the Red Chamber", "North and South Harmony" and its sequels "North and South Family", "Little Children", "A Song unforgettable", and after returning to the United States, she also created "South and North Happy Encounter".

In 1972, Zhang Ailing moved to Los Angeles and began to live.

He died on 8 September 1995 at the age of 75.

Major achievements

novel

Zhang Ailing is a charismatic writer in the history of modern Chinese literature, and her life's work involves novels, essays, and script reviews, of which novels are the most successful.

1 Expanding the new horizons of women's criticism and the new world of women's literature, Zhang Ailing's novels have risen from the analysis of the causes of women's tragic fate to the perception and thinking of human nature, life, fate and history in a more general sense.

2 Creating a new height of realistic fiction, she broke away from the influence of mainstream literature and used her legendary stories to create a world of life outside politics, focusing on ordinary people.

3 formed a distinctive artistic style, Zhang Ailing is a skillful craftsman in character portrayal, she successfully shaped a variety of characters, she uses hints, the action, speech, psychology of the three into one, thus reflecting the progress of the character's psychology, reflecting the author's deep understanding of the rich and complex heart of the character, revealing a certain social roots, so that the novel has a certain social depth.

4 Unique contributions to the history of Chinese literature, bold innovation in the use of novel expression techniques, and made a breakthrough in a certain sense, forming "the storyteller's conception, calm narrative mentality, jagged contrasting realistic techniques, psychological description of sensational externalization, prominent personalized intuitive imagery and desolate aesthetic mood together constitute a unique Zhang Ailing style".

prose

In Zhang Ailing's prose, she successfully integrates sensibility and rationality, concrete present life experience and profound philosophical thinking. First of all, stylistically, she adopted the style of an argumentative essay. Secondly, in the use of language, she uses the narrative language of the image and the alternating use of the discourse language of the police. In prose, one of her commonly used artistic means is to use some materialized imagery to convey the characters, scenes or moods exquisitely, delicately, and with cute images, full of artistic charm and refinement.

Family members

Grandfather: Zhang Peilun

Grandmother: Li Ju coupled

Father: Zhang Tingzhong

Mother: Huang Yifan

Aunt: Zhang Maoyuan

Younger brother: Zhang Zijing

Husbands: Hu Lancheng (first term), Lai Ya (second term)

Character evaluation

Writer Jia Pingwa: Being born in the same world as Zhang Ailing is also lucky, and it is enough to have her books to read.

Writer Wang Anyi: Only fiction is the meaning of Zhang Ailing. Therefore, the result of the acquaintance is to grab Zhang Ailing out of the novel and then return it to the novel.

Writer Wang Xiaobo: Zhang Ailing's novel has an extraordinary point, which lies in her deep understanding of women's lives.

Writer Bai Xianyong: Zhang Ailing is of course an unborn genius, her writing style is very interesting, like bypassing the literature of the May Fourth period, directly from the "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Jin Ping Mei" that line down, Zhang Ailing's novel language is more pure, is the authentic Chinese, her traditional Chinese cultural attainments are actually very deep.

Writer Li Oufan: Zhang Ailing's novel art, like a myth, has been immortalized by generations of writers and readers on both sides of the Taiwan Straits through generations of love, interpretation, imitation, criticism and rediscovery.

Writer Yu Qiuyu: She died very lonely, just like she lived a lonely life. But literature does not reject loneliness, it is she who tells history that there is still a corner of twentieth-century Chinese literature that does not have much fire. It is in this corner that the Shanghai charm of a distant year will last forever.

Source: Comprehensive collation