Speaking of Zhang Ailing, what do you think of? Is it a talented woman in the Republic of China period, or a famous modern female writer in China?
But these titles are all related to her talent, zhang Ailing is more touching, perhaps her not very perfect love life. Zhang Ailing's whole life seems to be chasing a beautiful love, is it because she is keen on this, or because of other special reasons?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > author Zhang Ailing</h1>
Wang Anyi said that only fiction is the meaning of Zhang Ailing. And artistic creation is often inseparable from the writer's own life experience, so what is Zhang Ailing's life like?
Perhaps Zhang Ailing's life is a lack of love, love for her may be like a luxury, unattainable, but it is not an item that can be obtained as long as she has money, all of which should be related to her early life.
In 1920, Zhang Ailing was born in Shanghai, and her origin was not ordinary. His grandfather Zhang Peilun was a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty, and her great-grandfather was even more powerful, that is, the famous Li Hongzhang. But Zhang Ailing's family has reached her generation, and it seems that some family paths have fallen, but at least life is still passable.
But Zhang Ailing is emotionally missing, especially in family affection. When she was four years old, her mother went to Europe to study, and perhaps Zhang Ailing's character of liking the unrestrained pursuit of literature was inherited from her mother. But the departure of her mother undoubtedly means the lack of maternal love for Zhang Ailing, who is still young.
When she was seven years old, her father and mother divorced, and Zhang Ailing became a child who had lost her mother's love and lived with her father. Children of single-parent families are emotionally fragile, and so is Zhang Ailing, who can only rely on her father without her mother's care.
But Zhang Ailing's father did not let him feel the warmth of family affection. Because since the divorce, Zhang Ailing's father has become fond of alcoholism, began to become depressed, and did not care much about Zhang Ailing's life and death. So Zhang Ailing can only live with the nanny many times.
But the young Zhang Ailing still longs for her father's care, every time she goes to find her father, she will be impatiently thrown away by his father, and even when her father is very bored, he will directly lock her in the basement, let her cry and cry, will not be moved. When the nanny took her out of the basement, Zhang Ailing understood that she was a child that no one loved, and no one would feel pain and care for her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng</h1>
It is also in this state of mind that Zhang Ailing began to like words, began to like to use words to record her inner loneliness, in the text, she found only her own sense of security, but also found her first love.
Zhang Ailing's first husband was Hu Lancheng, perhaps because of the lack of family affection, so that her partner was much older than her, and Hu Lancheng was twelve years older than her. But it is precisely because of this that she can have no reservations emotionally, and she who is completely devoted to Hu Lancheng is inevitably hit by the lack of room in the end.
Hu Lancheng is not a peaceful person, after marrying Zhang Ailing, he often dates other women, entangled with them at the same time, but also gradually hurt Zhang Ailing's heart, two years later, the two divorced.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > Zhang Ailing's life in the United States</h1>
After 1955, Zhang Ailing went to live in the United States and met the American writer Lai Ya, and the two announced their marriage after half a year of acquaintance, when Zhang Ailing was thirty-six years old, and Lai Ya was already sixty-five years old. The huge age gap also led to the inconvenience of the two people's lives, and Laiya's body soon deteriorated day by day, and even her legs were broken in the back.
In order to take care of her husband, Zhang Ailing can only keep writing novels to maintain the family's expenses. In 1967, Lai Ya died, leaving Zhang Ailing alone.
And perhaps life is tight or Zhang Ailing likes to often change places to live, to maintain the freshness of life, she actually moved one hundred and eighty times in three years, many times, Zhang Ailing is living for a few days and leaving.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > Zhang Ailing's later years</h1>
Zhang Ailing had no heirs in her life, she and Laiya once had a child, but because of poverty, this child did not stay, and the early death of her husband also doomed her loneliness in her later years.
We can't imagine Zhang Ailing's loneliness in her later years, nor can we speculate on what she thinks, and we may only find some clues from her books. On September 8, 1995, Zhang Ailing collapsed on the bed wrapped in a bathrobe, and it was not until a week later that the landlord found that Zhang Ailing had left.
Later, Zhang Ailing's newspaper friends held a funeral for her. After Zhang Ailing's death, her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Perhaps Zhang Ailing, a talented woman who has been wandering in loneliness all her life, the destination of the ocean is the most suitable choice for her.