I used to read Zhang Ailing's novels, but I just thought it was written too realistically. I thought the author probably had a prototype of the character when he wrote it. However, we can only guess who is who. After reading "Little Reunion" , I read "Comparison Record" again. Which novel has the characters corresponding to whom in real life, the answer is about to come out.
For example, Miss Xiang Ba and Ambassador Bi who appeared in "Little Reunion" easily remind people of a short story by Zhang Ailing, "Showing Mercy". Aren't these two of them in Dunfeng and Mi?
When seeing the pure sister in "Little Reunion" causing tuberculosis, she immediately thinks of the novel " Flower withering ", because Zheng Chuanchang in it caused tuberculosis to die.
But Sister Chun is not Zheng Chuanchang.
Because Sheng Jiuli's uncle Bian Yunzhi and Jiuli's cousins appeared behind him. Their family situation and character characteristics are basically exactly the same as the Zheng Chuanchang family in "With Flowers".
"Little Reunion" describes a winter , and Naide takes Jiuli to her uncle's house. Yun Zhi was on the smoke shop, and his aunt sat in the quilt. Jiuli and her third cousin went downstairs to play and asked her fourth cousin to rent books (on credit) and buy candy at the alley. The second cousin told her to bring a 30 cents of duck liver. If there was no money, she would ask Sister Liu to borrow it.
The fourth cousin rented a comic strip and bought duck liver and cigarette candy. Jiuli and her cousins ate and read books under the quilt.
Jiuli's third cousin is very naughty and teases a blind old maid.
Uncle's aunt (sister) had not yet left the court and lived here. She was thin and had a perm. She was a not-beautiful little yellow-faced woman. And Jiuli's aunt is very beautiful.
These characters only need to change their names, which is Mr. Zheng’s family in "The Flower Wither".
In other words, Yun Zhi in "Little Reunion" is prototyped by Zhang Ailing's uncle Huang Dingzhu, which is Mr. Zheng in "Flower".
Huang Dingzhu and Zhang Ailing's mother Huang Suqiong (Huang Yifan ) are twin siblings. Later, when the property was divided, Huang Dingzhu took the real estate and real estate, and Huang Yifan took the antiques.
Both the siblings live on their ancestors, but Zhang Ailing's mother attaches importance to the education of her children, and Huang Dingzhu's family has more children. As Zhang Ailing wrote in "With Flowers", Chuan Chang wanted to go to college, but knew that it was an unrealistic dream.
The prototype of Chuan Chang is Huang Dingzhu's third daughter Huang Jiayi, who died of tuberculosis. This is what Zhang Ailing’s “With Flowers” writes about.
novels describe a pair of beautiful parents and a bunch of beautiful daughters. Mr. Zheng and Mrs. Zheng are both very beautiful, but they are a little out of tune.
Especially Mr. Zheng, Zhang Ailing wrote that he "although he also knows that the woman and opium are still the heart of the child. He is the corpse of a child soaked in the alcohol tank."
The previous sentence is actually nothing wrong. French Eluya also has a famous poem " men will only grow old but not mature ". It is no big deal to write about uncles and children's hearts, right? I'm not very polite in the next sentence of
. The picture feels too strong and it's a bit disgusting.
In addition, she also wrote: "Mr. Zheng has been acting in a farce for forty years in a row, and his wife has been a long tragedy."
This sentence looks dazzling at first, but it's okay to think about it again. Life is in the play, but it's just a bit more specific.
novel describes the situation of Chuan Chang's family. Looking at the flowers, they actually follow the rules of the jungle. Dressing and eating, etc., they all rely on competition. Looking at the elegant and elegant lady, they are actually similar to the children who pick up coal cores.
Zhang Ailing wrote that after Chuan Chang got sick, her parents were crying and sad, but they were reluctant to pay for her treatment. They even had a dispute over this matter, which made Chuan Chang want to commit suicide. is like another gorgeous robe covered with lice.
No wonder my uncle was very dissatisfied with Eileen Chang after this novel was published.
As the saying goes, "Watching uncle is like seeing mother", Zhang Ailing and her uncle Huang Dingzhu are still very close.
Zhang Ailing's mother went abroad to study with her aunt when she was four years old. She went there for four years and only came back when she was eight years old. When Zhang Ailing returned from Tianjin to her birthplace Shanghai when she was eight years old, she often went to her uncle's house to play with her cousins.
In "References", Zhang Ailing also wrote that one winter she went to Zhangjiabang's uncle's house. There was a photo studio nearby. Her aunt asked her three cousins and her cousin to take her to take a photo together.
"I'm in the middle of the five little radish heads. There is also a cousin's youngest, and I didn't go that day. She is now the mother of TV star Zhang Xiaoyan ."
Zhang Xiaoyan from Taiwan is actually Zhang Ailing's cousin. Her mother's name is Huang Jiarui, and she is Zhang Ailing's uncle's youngest daughter.
After Zhang Ailing's parents divorced, her father Zhang Zhiyi still hoped to have a chance to get back together and moved her family to the same alley in Huang Dingzhu's house, hoping to meet her ex-wife and also hoping that her ex-brother-in-law would make a move. However, Huang Yifan soon went abroad for the second time after his divorce.
Zhang Zhiyi married Sun Yongfan in 1934 (when Zhang Ailing was fourteen years old), and it was not good to live in the same alley with her former brother-in-law, so she moved back to a ancestral property in the Zhang family to live in.
Zhang Ailing entered St. Mary Girls' High School to live in St. Mary Girls' High School when she was eleven years old. From the age of eight to eleven, she was very close to her uncle's family, which is conceivable.
"Little Reunion" also describes Zhang Ailing living in a hotel suite in the French Concession with her uncle's family and her mother, avoiding the Shanghai war. Her uncle asked her mother to introduce her international student friends to his daughter, and so on, which is a bit like the plot in "Liuli Tile".
In short, before becoming a writer, Zhang Ailing had a good relationship with her uncle, but after she used her uncle's family affairs as material and wrote a novel and published it, her uncle became angry with her and had less contact with each other.
Zhang Ailing was not merciless when she wrote her uncle into the novel, and did not beautify her much, but she did not seem to be uglinessing her. Of course, it is understandable that he is angry. He said to his family, "What she asked me, I told her, and now she scolded me in the article."
As a reader, after looking at it, it is the most dazzling sentence "The corpse of a child soaked in an alcohol tank". I wonder if I remove this sentence, will my uncle relieve his anger?
- Reference Books:
"Little Reunion", "Wirewell", "Glass Tile", "Comparison Record" (Zhang Ailing)
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