laitimes

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

author:Archives of Historical Truth

During the Republic of China period, there were many literati in society who used words to criticize society and criticize reality, and there were also some female figures.

Zhang Ailing, one of the four talented women of the Republic of China, is also among them, Zhang Ailing uses unique brushwork to expose the tragic life of small people, and in addition to Zhang Ailing, Yang Dai in the same period is also well known.

Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing's writing style is very different, Yang Dai uses her gentle and delicate way to describe a story, especially her "The Two of Us", which makes people feel the warmth of life.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

However, Zhang Ailing and Yang Dai, who are also talented women, have diametrically opposite fates and endings, they obviously have no grievances and no revenge, but they seem to be full of gunpowder.

Similar backgrounds and childhood experiences

To this day, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing are still awe-inspiring, and when people discuss whose literary attainments are higher, they will inevitably compare their lives.

The two have similar childhood experiences, but they have created two diametrically opposed personalities.

Yang Dai was born in 1911, while Zhang Ailing was born in 1920, although Yang Dai was more than nine years older than Zhang Ailing, but Zhang Ailing was a rising star, and her fame in the literary world was not lost to Yang Dai.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing are the children of large families, but the family backgrounds of the two are very different, Yang Dai's father Yang Yinhang once worked as a lawyer in Shanghai, fought many well-known lawsuits, he is upright and advanced in thought.

And Yang Dai's mother is also an intellectual youth in the new era, as early as when Yang Dai was a baby, she had already felt the influence of culture in her mother's arms.

In addition, Yang Dai's parents have a lot of experience in raising children, Yang Dai has already shown great talent when she is a few years old, but it is not only her parents who influence Yang Dai.

Yang Dai's aunt also took root in the field of literature and also opened the first women's university, and the family made quite remarkable contributions.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Although Yang Dai was born in the old society, her family has made Yang Dai a benchmark in the new era, and the family is following the trend of society to weave life into a new picture.

Zhang Ailing's parents did not have the same social status as Yang Dai's parents, and Zhang Ailing's ancestors once enjoyed royal honor in the Qing Dynasty.

But with the decline of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ailing's family gradually disappeared into the sky like the sun tilting westward.

In Zhang Ailing's father's generation, although they still lived in a big mansion and ate mountain treasures and seafood, it was extremely difficult to move forward like Yang Dai's family.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Zhang Ailing and her brother

Zhang Ailing's whole family is eating the old book left by her ancestors.

The young Zhang Ailing did not know this, and the old ideas of the past were like a shackle that swayed the Zhang family. For the sake of so-called face, they had to punch the swollen face and fill the fat, and no one knew what the chaos inside the Zhang family had become.

There is no love between Zhang Ailing's father and mother, and due to the influence of the family environment, Zhang Ailing's father is an old-school style, while Zhang Ailing's mother has a different concept of life from her father.

Her mother was very fond of advanced things, especially new ideas and new objects spread in the Western region, and she also pursued women to live out of themselves.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

The huge gap between the two parents caused Zhang Ailing to endure their three days of a small quarrel and a big quarrel for five days at a young age.

The father wants the mother to live as a woman in the old society, the husband teaches the child, and the mother has been trying to persuade the father to accept new things, and the result of the two people refusing to give in is divorce.

Parents are adults who have the right to choose their own lives, and for Zhang Ailing, she is only seven years old and needs the care of her parents, but she has to bear the consequences of family breakdown.

No one considers how Zhang Ailing feels, her parents are selfish, which indirectly creates Zhang Ailing's lonely and arrogant personality.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Since her parents got married, Zhang Ailing is no longer as lively as usual, and her father seems to have changed as a person, originally her father was very fond of Zhang Ailing, often holding Zhang Ailing to read books and newspapers, teaching her to read and read.

But since his parents divorced, his father's attitude towards Zhang Ailing has also become indifferent, and it didn't take long for his father to marry another wife.

In folklore, there is a saying that there is a stepmother and a stepfather, which means that if the father continues the string, the stepmother will abuse the child, and the biological father will gradually snub the child under the influence of the stepmother.

This was fulfilled in Zhang Ailing's body. Zhang Ailing's stepmother scolded her either, Zhang Ailing obviously did not do anything wrong, but she had to bear the inexplicable attack of others, she was very afraid.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

She wanted to tell her father about the causes and consequences of the incident, but her father was cold-eyed, and she did not want to help Zhang Ailing at all, and gradually Zhang Ailing's heart was like ashes.

The absurd love of youth

Two very different family environments have made two talented women, and it is often said that a good childhood can cure a lifetime, while a bad childhood needs a lifetime to heal.

Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing each had a carefree childhood, but Yang Dai used her words to heal Qian Zhongshu and heal everyone around her, and warmth was Yang Dai.

Zhang Ailing, on the other hand, wrote a tragic story describing the low-level characters alone in the middle of the night, and she could only lick her wounds in no-man's corners.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

She is full of sharp thorns, no one is allowed to come near, she looks at the world coldly, thinking that the only way to ensure that others will not hurt her again, but in fact, Zhang Ailing is still a little girl who needs care and love.

Her happy sunshine stayed forever at the age of seven, and since then Zhang Ailing has been shrouded in chills, even in the scorching sun, it is still cold.

By her youth, Zhang Ailing had become an excellent female college student with her own efforts, and she broke away from the shackles of her father and stepmother and restarted a beautiful life.

The novels she published have won the praise of many people, and she is now fully capable of planning her life, but in the face of love, Zhang Ailing has once again gone astray.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Even though there were many people with social status and artistic attainments pursuing Zhang Ailing at that time, Zhang Ailing refused, and the harm caused to her by her childhood was too deep, so that she fell in love with a husband with a wife.

When Zhang Ailing was 23 years old, she met Hu Lancheng.

Hu Lancheng is more than ten years older than Zhang Ailing, but Zhang Ailing still feels that Hu Lancheng is her good match, and Zhang Ailing, who has lacked love since childhood, likes a stable and nurturing man, and Hu Lancheng just meets Zhang Ailing's mate selection criteria.

Therefore, knowing that Hu Lancheng already had a wife, Zhang Ailing still intervened in someone else's marriage, such a small three act is disdainful, but Zhang Ailing feels that there is nothing wrong with pursuing her own love.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Her love is deformed and perverted, but Zhang Ailing is awkward, and she rejects Hu Lancheng's pursuit while indulging in Hu Lancheng's obsession with her.

She enjoys the efforts of others to her, but does not want to give her feelings to others, and Zhang Ailing's selfishness in dealing with emotional problems seems to be no different from her father.

In 1932, the 21-year-old Yang Dai was admitted to Tsinghua University, and as the head of the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai made love at the Guyue Hall of Tsinghua University.

The two have many common topics, they chat about ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces, chat about each other's attitude and pursuit of life, as if there is a feeling of seeing each other and hating the night.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

After they walked around the campus holding hands and spending the best years of each other, in 1935, Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu were married, and within a few months the two of them went abroad to study abroad to pursue their dreams.

They live the life of ordinary people, reading, getting married, having children, working, although step by step, but everywhere reveals warmth.

On the other hand, Zhang Ailing, although she interfered in someone else's marriage and drove the original wife out of the Hu family, Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing did not get married immediately.

It may be that he is worried about other people's gossip, until Hu Lancheng divorced a year later, he did not give Zhang Ailing a name, but Zhang Ailing, who finally got what she wanted, was not happy.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

At first, people hated Zhang Ailing for not paying attention to morality, saying that her combination with Hu Lancheng had exceeded people's moral bottom line standards, but since Hu Lancheng became the editor of the Japanese side, people let Zhang Ailing add one degree to the crime.

Titles such as "traitor" and "lackey" were also crowned on Zhang Ailing's head, for which Zhang Ailing was very annoyed, she never thought that marrying Hu Lancheng would be implicated, and people's attention to Zhang Ailing's life has far exceeded the attention to the works.

Different endings in later years

Zhang Ailing is an arrogant person, but also an extremely inferior person, the bad experience of childhood allowed her to grow a barrier of self-protection in the process of growing up.

In the face of her husband's deep public opinion storm, Zhang Ailing is entangled and struggling, she once thought of facing gossip with Hu Lancheng, but she could not stand others pointing at her.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

After several tosses and turns with her husband to avoid life, Zhang Ailing finally broke out, plus Hu Lancheng had other women around her, which was also challenging Zhang Ailing's bottom line. In the end, the two could only end the marriage that lasted for several years.

As a person who has the experience of intervening in other people's marriages, Zhang Ailing's fate should be something she has long anticipated.

Since Hu Lancheng can let Zhang Ailing intervene between him and the original match, even if Zhang Ailing gets Hu Lancheng, there will definitely be another person who will intervene in her marriage in the same way.

After the divorce, Zhang Ailing seemed to have left her love behind, and she began to publish novels in magazines continuously, but Zhang Ailing was just numbing herself in this way, and she did not want to recall Hu Lancheng.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Her works appeared frequently in the public eye, magazines sold many times, although she was a "cultural traitor", but it is undeniable that Zhang Ailing's literary talent at that time could not be surpassed.

Perhaps Zhang Ailing's bones were full of rebellion since childhood, and in 1955, Zhang Ailing gave up a stable life and came to the United States instead to begin writing and translating.

During this time, she met her second husband, Mr. LaiYa, who was 30 years older than Zhang Ailing, and although this love affair lasted longer than Zhang Ailing's first marriage, it ended because of LaiYa's death.

After experiencing two marriages, 47-year-old Zhang Ailing completely focused her life on work, she did not like the distractions of the world, so she closed herself in a corner of Los Angeles.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1995, the news of Zhang Ailing's death spread throughout the world, and this thorny rose decided to scatter its ashes to the sea after experiencing the ups and downs of life.

Zhang Ailing's life is free, yearning for freedom, the vastness of the ocean will accommodate her all, shortly after Zhang Ailing's death, Yang Dai wrote a letter to a friend, mentioning Zhang Ailing.

People think that the literati will always have the obsession of pity for each other, but Yang Dai, instead of missing the flower of the literary world, satirizes Zhang Ailing's appearance and dress.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

With curly hair, a cheongsam, and a touch of red lips, Zhang Ailing's life is colorful and wanton, but Yang Dai is simple and low-key.

Yang Dai never shows herself in a flowery way, so she is not used to Zhang Ailing.

Of course, some people say that Yang Dai is jealous of Zhang Ailing, Zhang Ailing has lived out herself, and Yang Dai is bound by the so-called "upbringing" of life. Why Yang Dai actually dislikes Zhang Ailing, we have no way of knowing now.

In contrast, in Yang Chen's later years, her greatest pain was the loss of her husband and only daughter one after another.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

In 1997, at the age of 86, Yang Dai experienced the tragedy of white-haired people sending black-haired people, her daughter Qian Yi died of spinal cancer, and just a year after her daughter's death, Qian Zhongshu also died of illness.

Yang Dai has not yet come out of the pain of losing her beloved daughter and has to bear the grief of losing the pillow person, which is too cruel for her, in order not to lose them, Yang Dai wrote "The Two of Us".

The story begins with Yang Dai saying that she had a long dream, telling the story of her and Qian Zhongshu's acquaintance, acquaintance, love, and then the happiness and sadness experienced by their family of three after giving birth to their daughter.

In Yang Dai's pen, this story is simple and warm, and seems to be no different from many ordinary families, but it makes people feel Yang Dai's helplessness and miss her husband and daughter in the words.

Talented women of the same era, Yang Dai and Zhang Ailing: You live out your personality, I live out my wind bones

Zhang Ailing and Yang Dai's later years are the same loneliness, but the difference is that Zhang Ailing has been accustomed to loneliness since childhood, while Yang Dai has been surrounded by love since childhood, and when she is accompanied by her husband and daughter in middle age, she is far more cruel than Zhang Ailing when she faces loneliness alone.

Zhang Ailing and Yang Dai are both symbols of the Republic of China period, they represent the progress of culture, but different childhood experiences have brought them into different worlds.

But this is also an achievement, if they all have a happy childhood life, the stories written may be the happy love of the prince and princess in the fairy tale.

It is precisely because there is a writer like Zhang Ailing, who has seen the cold and warm feelings of human feelings, that he can tear out the reality that people do not want to accept and present it to more people.

Read on