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Today is the 100th anniversary of Zhang Ailing's birth.
In the hearts of the world, Zhang Ailing is a talented woman, a prodigy, a tragic woman who has left a legendary love story, a fashionista at the forefront of the trend, and a great writer who cannot be surpassed, leaving many golden sentences.
Perhaps the most popular thing that modern people talk about is this sentence in "Red Roses and White Roses": "Married to a red rose, over time, the red changed a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was still "bright moonlight before the bed"; married to a white rose, the white one was a rice sticky on the clothes, and the red one was a cinnabar mole on the heart."
The story of the world is varied, naturally inseparable from the four words of "wine color wealth", Zhang Ailing is good at writing the love stories of small people in the big era, but a close reading of her works found that about the "wine" in front of the "color", Zhang Ailing actually has a lot of delicate and sharp descriptions.
Zhang Ailing will let her characters get drunk from time to time, in the 40s of the last century, what kind of wine was popular on the beach with red wine and drunken gold fans, through her text, we can finally get a glimpse of the end:
brandy
He remembered that there was a bottle of brandy in the cupboard, took it, poured a glass full of glass, and sipped slowly at the window facing the outside. The smoker walked up behind him and said, "You should drink brandy to warm your stomach, or you'll get cold." The heat of brandy rushed straight into his face..."
- "Red Roses and White Roses"
sherry
The three of them split the flowers and whisked the willows, and took a detour towards Mr. Miller's house. At the head of the door, there was a west cub greeting him, guiding in front. In the dark shadow, a few wolf dogs ran out, and they were yelled at by the west cub, and someone came out next to them and leashed the dogs. Mr. Mill changed into his dinner clothes and waited in the guest room. As soon as they arrived, they were given three glasses of Sydney.
- "The Serial Set"
whiskey
"Cui Zhi rubbed his forehead and said, 'Oh, give you a fuss, I forgot what I came up to do.' Oh, come to think of it, go out and buy a nice bottle of wine, buy a bottle of Johnny Wagger's whiskey, and get a black card." 」
- "Eighteen Springs"
Ps. Johnny Walker is Johnnie Walker
"The whiskey of the 'Four Roses' brand, the sparkling yellow wine, the crystal glass resting on the brown and yellow table, next to a few red roses - a glass of wine also makes it so elegant." 」
- "Hong Luan Xi"
In addition to telling what people drank at that time, wine has a more subtle and heavy metaphor in Zhang Ailing's pen.
"The woman was laughing in the room, and the many wines she had drunk were dangling in the people, and she became transparently into a bottle, a perfume bottle, a valuable gift lying in a box of pale green broken bristle notes. This woman was lovely and sad, and she became a gift to a man who turned his room into a Cozy Nest of Chinese sensibilities, and in the nest "the most elaborate thing is the smoky purple glass wine glass on the small cabinet, all kinds of wine, eating all kinds of different wines; a neat row of wine bottles, with red and blue lacquer and green paint egg-shaped large corks on the mouth."
This is also the emotional image of a man, he constantly changes his girlfriend around him, and different women are different wine glasses. Can't help but remind people of gu hongming's teacup teapot theory of that era.
And her middle-aged man's drinking posture, even if it is seen today, is very appropriate and spicy:
"But his father always sat alone in the guest house after dinner, drinking, eating fried peanuts and rice, and drank his face red and shiny, like the owner of any small shop." ...... Ru Liang was not against drinking. A man, devastated, whether in love or career, staggered into the liquor row, climbed onto a high stool, and shouted, "Whiskey, don't put soda on hold!" Then he held his head in his hand and started to wince, and his hair fell down a strand and swept into his eyes, but the eyes were not momentarily, staring straight, hollow--that was taken for granted, sympathetic. Although it is not good to drink too much, it is a noble indecency."
The use of "noble indecency" to describe wine is also a person who has never come before or after.
However, most ordinary people may not have any taste and appreciation for wine at all, not even noble and vulgar, and wine is just a little futile struggle in their miserable life.
Xu Shuhui is not the main character of "Eighteen Springs", but his wine is out of harmony between body and mind. His mother brought him a bottle of wine made in her own house with cantonese oranges and asked him to drink a cup to ward off the cold, but he used it to relieve his boredom. "But 'the wine is in the belly, the matter is in the heart,' and there is always a layer in the middle, and no matter how much wine you drink, you can't drown your heart." If that piece of the thing in my heart wants to soak it with shochu and burn it, I just can't."
After all, wine is just wine, things are still things, and no one can dissolve anyone. The sorrow has been cut off for no reason to get drunk, and the wine has not arrived, and it has first become tears.
The most "emotional" wine in Zhang Ailing's pen should be the bottle of "rose burning" in "The Grudge Girl". Tangram is mixed with roses in sorghum wine and soaked for two months as a New Year's wine. When the Third Master came, she entertained him with this wine. The remaining roses from the brewing wine, she wanted to brew another bottle of roses to give to the third master.
"The miscellaneous wine came, and the old mother brought in a bag of rock candy and a bag of dried roses." He opened the paper bag and poured it into the bottle, all gathered in the neck. One by one, the dried little roses bloomed and turned a deep red. Never heard of wine bringing flowers back to life. The icings of sugar leaked through the flowers and drifted slowly down in the shady green glass. Soon the bottom of the bottle was covered with a layer of snow, and there were two petals of fallen flowers on the snow. She looked at the strange scene inside, and the dead flower bloomed again, like a sign, but immediately felt disgusted like a bad omen, and she felt ashamed." Sitting opposite was the only man she had ever loved in her life, loving, but not daring to love, not forgetting, not being close, and always wary of him plotting her money. It's too hard.
Zhang Ailing writes wine, which can be described as very delicate, even the so-called old saying "wine is the color medium", she also wrote a ridiculous clip:
"Talking about the movie that I went to see with Mrs. Xun that day, there are two points that Mrs. Xun is not very clear about the plot, and even Yuan Mei made an exception and rushed to help explain that it was the male protagonist who was drunk, had sex with the woman who seduced him, and thought that he had raped her, making a big mistake.
Shao Fu suddenly and impatiently retorted, "It's not okay at all!"
Mrs. Wu never heard him talk about sex, and she laughed a little overwhelmed."
- "Meet and Greet"
Seeing this, I can't help but think that even in 2020, there are still people who don't know about this matter, and there are various bloggers who come out and say that drinking too much wine can't be done. People wrote it decades ago!
Zhang Ailing has written a lot of "wine", and she herself seems to be able to drink some wine. "Cicadas – Night Interview with Zhang Ailing" has this description: "Then she stood up again and asked me if I wanted some wine, whether I liked Vermouth or Bourbon, because at home, I always have to prepare some wine, she said." 」
Ps. Vermouth, or Vermouth, is a wine-based wine made with an infusion of aromatic plants.
Of course, Zhang Ailing is also an unavoidable "foodie".
During her studies at HKU, she ate ice cream to dispel her depression; after returning to Shanghai after graduating from college, Zhang Ailing lived in a Changde apartment, where most of her novels were written.
It seems that it is really fragrant!
In 1995, Zhang Ailing died in Los Angeles at the age of 75. 25 years after Zhang Ailing's death, her novels have been put on the screen again and again, her golden sentences have been constantly forwarded, and people have various versions of Zhang Ailing's personality in their minds, or high cold, or lonely, or poisonous tongue.
But maybe she's just the woman who likes to eat ice cream, chases stinky tofu in makeup, and occasionally comes for two drinks.