In addition to "The First Burning Incense", Zhang Ailing's heirloom works also include these (1) Love of the Fallen City (2) Golden Lock (3) Red Rose and White Rose (4) Love (5) Color Ring

Hu Qin was pulling, and on the night of ten thousand lights, a love affair was about to begin.

White Tassel returned to her mother's house after the divorce. Unfortunately, the woman's divorce has been despised, and after her money is calculated by her brother and sister-in-law, she will become a superfluous person. Sneering, it seemed that all these faults were caused by her alone. The woman was forced to this point, and the only way to remarry was to leave this dilapidated and decaying family of fame and dignity. So she calculated how to get Fan Liuyuan to marry her, and Fan Liu calculated how to get her without being responsible for her.

However, the fall of Hong Kong finally fulfilled the love between Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan. The ending may not be satisfactory to you, Fan Liuyuan is married, but marriage does not make him a saint. He still follows the habits and styles of life in the past, and he is still surrounded by warblers and swallows. But that's the real life. As Zhang Ailing herself said, "The times are so heavy, it is not so easy to realize." This ending is already a happy ending.

The characters in "Love in the Fallen City" seem to be labeled "selfish". Bai Liusu wanted to marry Fan Liuyuan in order to obtain financial security; Fan Liuyuan approached Bai Liusu to fill a spiritual gap; Mrs. Xu threw down the white tassel during the Battle of Hong Kong in order to escape for her own life; Bai Liusu's brother and sister-in-law or to shelter or drive away Bai Liusu was for money; even Saheini, who did not have much ink, also found an Englishman for material purposes. What can you say? Human nature has weaknesses, and we can only sigh the desolation of this era.

Compared with the white tassel, Cao Qiqiao in "The Golden Lock" does not have such a good ending.

Cao Qiqiao was originally the daughter of a small family, and her family opened a sesame oil shop. Xu is greedy for the money of the Jiang family and marries Cao Qiqiao to the second grandfather of the Cao family with hypochondriasis. Although it is the main room, she is despised everywhere, and even the lady is saying her right and wrong behind her back. When she finally survived until her husband and mother-in-law both died, and could live alone in separate families and leave this deep sea-like compound, Cao Qiqiao had become more and more sick. She was too afraid that people would try to use her youth to exchange happiness for money. She likes Jiang Jize, the third master of the Jiang family, but Jiang Jize is hypocritical to her. When Jiang Jize appeared in front of Cao Qiqiao in a vain attempt to impress her and let her sell the field to buy the house in his hand, Cao Qiqiao was desperate. She thought money was the most important thing. She's completely morbid. She was dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law Zhishou and gave her anger everywhere. She was afraid that her daughter Chang'an would marry the wrong person, and she would do everything possible to sabotage her marriage with Tong Shifang. After they were engaged, they forced Chang'an to withdraw from the marriage. Cao Qiqiao would rather Keep Chang'an guarding the money to smoke opium and then end up alone.

In this way, Cao Qiqiao twisted with a heavy golden shackle, and she put this shackle on her children's body, strangling their happiness and dragging them into a sick state...

My favorite clip in the text is that Chang'an plays the harmonica, in the starry night of the moon. Only then was her heart at peace, "Tell me the past, the story of my favorite in the past, a long time ago, a long time ago...

A long time ago, when Cao Qiqiao was still a young girl who did not have more trouble, she also lived in a person in her heart, and she also had the little happiness she envisioned. It must be different from what she had experienced, except that time was old, and in that era, who could manipulate her own destiny?

Maybe you can't help but remind me that you missed your favorite Red Rose and White Rose. Yeah, that's what I like too. The opening paragraph is so sharp that you and I were caught off guard. Maybe every man, she said, had two women like that, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red became a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, the white is still "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; married to the white rose, the white is a rice stick on the clothes, and the red is a cinnabar mole on the chest.

She also said that there is no emotion in this world, not patched.

When the woman saw this, she couldn't help but feel a little chilly and a little unwilling, but this is the truth. At least I, with nothing to argue, could only lower my eyelids.

Life is a gorgeous robe full of fleas, and you and I need not complain.

In fact, among Zhang Ailing's many articles, my favorite is the essay "Love", "Among tens of millions of people, in the endless wilderness of time, there is no step earlier, there is no step later, just caught up, then there is no other word to say, only a soft question: 'Oh, are you here too?' ’”。

The girl in the white shirt, that spring evening, the peach tree at the back door, and the young man, seemed to be just a dream with pink petals burning. It's beautiful and sad.

If it is true that the Hundred Flower Fairy in "Mirror Flower Edge" was relegated to mortal dust, that Zhang Ai Ling must be a lotus fairy who missed the hour and did not return to the heavenly court. In this life, in the chaotic world, in the darkness, it burns its own mille-feuille white. Her heart was bitter, because she had sucked in too much pain in the mud of the darkness, but she had never fallen into the bottomless darkness. She approaches light, warmth, all the beauty and goodness of the world, the truest side of human nature, and restores the deified person into a real person.

In "The Color Ring", she has completely subverted the standard of good and bad. As a patriotic youth, Wang Jiazhi has paid more than anyone else, and all of them have been tragic. But those patriotic students refused to forgive her for her loss of virginity, on the contrary, the traitor Lao Yi treated her sincerely. Love is irrelevant to right or wrong, has nothing to do with politics, this is a real person.

Zhang Ailing is like a healer. Wise hands, benevolent hearts. Don't ask about the identity of the comer, don't avoid the dark side of human nature. Therefore, although her characters are only small people of that era, although they have all kinds of flaws, she does not dislike them. Even if this man is a petty adulterer, even if this man is selfish and selfish, he is only showing the fragile side of other people's humanity, and he is worthy of forgiveness. Yes, there is no unforgivable person, no unforgivable fault.

Zhang Ailing may already have nothing in her heart, she has received more light than others.

She once said that one day our civilization, whether sublimated or flashy, will become the past, but now it is still a clear autumn as a mirror, and I should be happy.

In that autumn, everything became a thing of the past. Zhang Ailing slept peacefully in a foreign land forever, and she finally got her nirvana.