When Zhang Ailing was ten years old, her mother advocated sending her to school, but her father repeatedly made a fuss about her disobedience. In the end, her mother forced her to be sent away like a human being. Because she already had a good foundation, she entered pornography. I transferred to the fourth grade of primary school.
When filling out the admission certificate, because the word "Zhang Yong" didn't ring loudly, she wanted to give herself a new name. She hesitated for a while and didn't know what name to fill in. She held her head and thought. After a while, she said, "Let's just randomly translate the English name into two words." This word described her mood at that time. This is the origin of Zhang Ailing's name.
The ordinary name Zhang Ailing was just a casual expression of her mother's troubled mood, but later it became known throughout the literary world. Her mother always planned to change it for her but did not change it. Later, Ailing was unwilling to change it and there was no need to change it.
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Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 - September 1995), formerly known as Zhang Yong, pen name Liang Jing, native of Fengrun, Hebei, was born in Shanghai, modern China female writer. He started writing novels at the age of 7, and began publishing works in school magazines and magazines at the age of 12. From 1943 to 1944, he wrote and published novels such as "Agarwood Chips: The First Incense", "Agarwood Chips - The Second Incense", "Jasmine Pieces", "Love in a Fallen City", and "Red Roses and White Roses". In 1955, Zhang Ailing went to settle in the United States.
Zhang Ailing is a uniquely charming writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her life-long creations involve novels, essays, and script reviews, among which novels have the highest achievement. Zhang Ailing's novels transcended her time.
Zhang Ailing's novels all show her personal characteristics in terms of material selection, conception, characterization, narrative structure and language skills, and have achieved outstanding achievements; The in-depth description of small characters is unmatched by any other writer in the 1940s.
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