What Zhang Ailing likes best is her various cheongsam. After the founding of New China, people put on work clothes. Zhang Ailing also went to Hong Kong because she couldn't put on her favorite cheongsam.
Shanghai Beach in the 1940s has always been popular with its own fashion, and there are many descriptions of cheongsam in her works.
Speaking of Zhang Ailing, I can't help thinking of her family background. Her father, Zhang Zhiyi, was the only son of Zhang Peilun and Li Hongzhang's eldest daughter, Li Ju, and her mother, Huang Yifan, was the granddaughter of Huang Yisheng, the naval prefect in the late Qing Dynasty. For Zhang Ailing, this seemingly perfect marriage doesn't seem so proud. Parents' love seems to be a wrong combination, which also brings a great shadow to the young Zhang Ailing.
Zhang Peilun is famous in officialdom for her purity, and Li Ju is also the daughter of Li Hongzhang. She is beautiful and virtuous, a match made in heaven. Such a match made in heaven gave birth to an ignorant and opium-addicted child.
As an only child, my mother also devoted all her energy to Zhang Zhiyi. Zhang Ailing's father always memorizes ancient Chinese in the room. Although it is not very useful, it seems to be her habit and daily work.
Zhang Ailing, who lives in a noble family, neither felt any glory because she was born in such an official family, nor did she deliberately hide her origins. She is born with such a character, and she is really reserved and restrained in her own character.
In this new era, Zhang Ailing's birth has also become a "stain" on her, because she was born in a feudal family, Li Hongzhang was criticized for many treaties that humiliated her power and her country, and Zhang Ailing often kept a certain distance from her family, but this does not mean that Zhang Ailing did not respect them.
1920 On September 30th, Zhang Ailing was born, and her younger brother Zhang Zijing was born the following year.
The love between Zhang Zhiyi and Huang Yifan was really a match made in heaven in the eyes of people at that time, but only they knew whether the shoes were suitable or not. After their marriage, Huang Yifan and Zhang Zhiyi spent almost every day arguing. She was born in a noble family, and she didn't like her husband's ignorance, opium smoking, whoring with prostitutes and marrying concubines, which eventually led to the breakdown of their marriage. Huang Yifan also became the first "runaway Nora" in China and spent her whole life.
The formation of Zhang Ailing's personality has a lot to do with her mother. When Zhang Ailing was very young, her mother left home. When Zhang Ailing was ten years old, her parents divorced, and Zhang Ailing and her younger brother Zhang Zijing were taken care of by her father's aunt.
When Zhang Ailing was fourteen years old, she had married Sun. It is said that stepmother is the most vicious woman in the world. Zhang Ailing often suffers from her stepmother, and her father often stands by her side. Most of Zhang Ailing's sensitive and peculiar personality comes from this. Once again, my father locked Zhang Ailing up for half a year because of the contradiction between himself and his stepmother, which almost killed Zhang Ailing. Thanks to the rescue of the servants, Zhang Ailing was able to leave home.
17 years old, graduated from Zhang Ailing Middle School. She has new ideas. She wants to go abroad to see the vast world and learn western culture. Her biological mother supported her desire to study abroad, but her father, as a guardian, disagreed and her stepmother was cynical.
Soon after, the July 7th Incident broke out, and Zhang Ailing's dream of going abroad was shattered.
Being slapped one by one by her stepmother and father, she almost wanted to kill Zhang Ailing, so Zhang Ailing had to go to the inspection room and was confined by her father. At that time, Zhang Ailing couldn't wait to think, "If the bomb falls in our house, I will die with them." .
At this time, my father is simply a demon. Zhang ailing has dysentery in her eyes, and her father won't call a doctor. Thanks to the servant's efforts, Zhang Zhiyi was persuaded.
At this time, a letter from her mother brought glory to Zhang Ailing. Is it my mother's poverty or my father's abuse? Zhang Ailing has already made up her mind that she would rather starve to death than set foot in her father's house.
She risked her life to escape to her aunt's house. At this time, Zhang Ailing really felt free, and then her resentment came out. The mother saw her daughter's sufferings in recent years and burst into tears.
However, Zhang Ailing and her mother hardly live together. In Zhang Ailing's eyes, mother is also a magical existence, but she never thought that her mother would be stumped by daily necessities. Besides, there is such a drag bottle around, and Zhang Ailing even noticed that her mother felt that she had brought a drag bottle.
In this war-torn era, truth is not easy. At her mother's suggestion, she gave Zhang Ailing two suggestions, one is to get married and the other is to continue studying. Zhang Ailing chose to continue studying without hesitation. With the support of her mother, Zhang Ailing lived up to expectations and won the first place in the London University Examination. But because of the war, Zhang Ailing had to settle for the second best and came to Hong Kong University.
After Zhang Ailing entered HKU, she did not finish her studies. During the war years, Hong Kong also fell. Zhang Ailing and her classmates went to the hospital for nursing. 1942, Zhang Ailing returned to Shanghai and started a new life.
After returning to Shanghai from Hong Kong, Zhang Ailing came to live with her aunt, while her mother had already gone to Singapore, and basically she had no contact with her father.
My aunt, like Zhang Ailing's mother and Zhang Ailing, is a fashionable woman. She has left home and worked to support herself. At this time, Zhang Ailing was ready to enter St. John's University, but such a talented young woman with literary attainments failed to enter St. John's University because she failed in Chinese. After failing to apply for St. John's University, Zhang Ailing started her own writing career. Zhang Ailing, who studied English hard in HKU, first thought of English works. Of course, Zhang Ailing's choice is correct, and Zhang Ailing is also famous for writing English articles.
Since then, she has also started to write Chinese literary works, including "Pogostemon: The First Furnace Incense" and "Pogostemon: The Second Furnace Incense", which makes Zhang Ailing feel the pleasure of wandering words more than writing in English, and writing Chinese novels is more suitable for her. After writing Fragments of Aquilaria Resinatum, Zhang Ailing did not contribute. After all, this is her first Chinese work. She found her mother's friends to help her polish up, and after her decision, two novels successfully made the front page of Violet magazine.
Zhang Ailing proved her creative level, and from then on, she was like a duck to water in creation. Zhang Ailing once put the focus of her work submission on magazines, such as Love in the City, The Golden Lock and other works that Zhang Ailing is familiar with.
At the peak of Zhang Ailing's life, Hu Lancheng entered Zhang Ailing's life. Writing about Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng seems to be a topic that can never be avoided. Zhang Ailing's love for him is as low as dust.
Hu Lancheng has always been a prodigal son. 1943, Hu Lancheng was arrested and imprisoned. Since then, it has been a serious thorn in Wang Jingwei's side, and it was during this period that Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng met and fell in love. Zhang Ailing is just a fond memory of Hu Lancheng when he was frustrated, and also one of the women who passed by in his life. Because of Zhang Ailing's blockade, Hu Lancheng got to know Zhang Ailing from Su Qing. Seeing these words, Hu Lancheng soon forgot his present situation and completely focused on Zhang Ailing. From the disillusionment of the goddess image to the embarrassing atmosphere, and then to the later love, Zhang Ailing fell into the whirlpool of love completely, and then held an unforgettable wedding.
But soon after they got married, Hu Lancheng left Shanghai for Wuhan because of the turbulent situation. Met 16-year-old Zhou. Compared with the old fox Hu Lancheng, 16-year-old Zhou was naive and inexperienced, and was quickly taken in by Hu Lancheng. And Zhang Ailing is still waiting for Hu Lancheng to come back. After you come back, Hu Lancheng also frankly told Zhang Ailing about Zhou Xiao. In Hu Lancheng's eyes, Zhang Ailing loved him deeply, and Zhang Ailing became confused and didn't know jealousy.
But as a woman, how can a husband not be jealous when he has a third party? Hu Lancheng moved from Wuhan to Zhejiang and became a good friend and stepmother from Zhou Xiao. Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing, who were gentle and sincere at the beginning, have gradually become speechless. After meeting Hu Lancheng in Wenzhou, Zhang Ailing finally made up her mind to make a clean break with Hu Lancheng. Hu Lancheng deeply hurt Zhang Ailing, so that Zhang Ailing stayed at home for a long time, aged and haggard.
Zhang Ailing finally decided to write a farewell letter to Hu Lancheng. "I don't like you, and you don't like me. I have been thinking about this resolution for a year and a half ... ".
In the past three years, Zhang Ailing, like Zhou Xiao, was a wet behind the ears girl, attracted by the old fox Hu Lancheng, but now Zhang Ailing woke up.
Hu Lancheng 1945 and left Shanghai. Everywhere mercy, emotional tragedy, Zhang Ailing is often unhappy, and there is nothing brilliant in her works. This once talented woman in the literary world has gradually stabilized her writing skills from the legendary color, and the number of her works has also decreased.
1946, Zhang Ailing also began to transform into a drama, and Zhang Ailing also started a second relationship, which was close to unrequited love. Also because of Hu Lancheng's injury, Zhang Ailing has no sense of security. Sang Arc is a handsome man, and such a man has no sense of security.
1949, they cooperated. Although there is a movie "The Sorrow of Middle-aged People", Sang Arc is the closest person to Zhang Ailing, and Zhang Ailing also said that she has never regretted Sang Arc.
Since then, New China has been established and great changes have taken place in Shanghai. It seems that things about Zhang Ailing and Sang Arc have also gone away. Zhang Ailing seldom talks about mulberry arc. Later, she married a beautiful woman and Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong. When she went there, she knew that she was dead and never came back.
Zhang Ailing, who came to Hong Kong for the second time, is not the same as when she first studied. At this time, Zhang Ailing is full of confusion about the future. She is doing a job she doesn't like in Hong Kong, and she also meets Kuang, Su Qing's best girlfriend and Song Qi.
From 65438 to 0955, she applied for permission and went to America, where she met her true love, Yala. He is 65 years old, and she met him in an art hall at the age of 36. Their cordial greetings again and again made ripples in Zhang Ailing's heart.
Later, their relationship grew by leaps and bounds, just like young people who just started dating. After their residence permit in Yala expired, they had to be separated for some time. 1956, the couple got married in new york and began their common life. The romantic and warm days after marriage were soon broken, and Yala's health was in trouble. She was bedridden several times, and Zhang Ailing stood beside him silently.
Their lives are also in trouble, because they have no income for a long time, and even their own food and clothing are problems. With the gradual improvement of Yala's health and the warmth of their small family, Zhang Ailing's writing is inseparable from Yala's encouragement and support. Because of poverty, she moved from one city to another many times. 1960, Zhang Ailing finally obtained American citizenship.
In order to have a better income, Zhang Ailing had to go to Hong Kong to find better opportunities to make money. 196 1 year, she came to Taiwan Province to collect information for Jong, but it didn't take long for Yala to have another stroke, and Zhang Ailing didn't have the ticket money to return to the United States, so she had to go to Hong Kong to save money to write a dream of red mansions for the film company and go back to take care of Yala. She is determined never to leave Yala again. With Yala's serious illness, Zhang Ailing changed from a part-time writer to a full-time nurse and stayed with Yala all the time.
But the lovers didn't move to heaven, and Yala left him forever. After Yala died, Zhang Ailing always took Yala as her surname and called her Mrs Yala.
After Yala's death, Zhang Ailing's work in the United States was still tepid, but it caused a craze for Zhang Ailing at home. After Yala died, Zhang Ailing was different from before. An interview with 197 1 recorded the appearance of Zhang Ailing in her later years.
"In Ms. Zhang's living room, in addition to a desk, there are dining tables and chairs and powerful light bulbs for photography, which is really incredible for a writer who is famous for his pen and ink."
1972, Zhang Ailing gradually became well-off and later lived in Los Angeles. In her later years, Zhang Ailing moved frequently, moving 180 times in three years, just because she was hiding from bugs. Because it is convenient to move, almost everything is disposable. Many people think that Zhang Ailing is mentally unhealthy in her later years.
After Yala died, Zhang Ailing's mother also left him. She lost her lover and relatives and few friends. She has always been in an autistic state, and Zhang Ailing, who has never felt safe, only feels safe in her closed space.
1995 On September 8th, neighbors in Los Angeles found that Zhang Ailing had been gone for a long time. When the police opened Zhang Ailing's door, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. She is wearing a red cheongsam and lying on a blanket, next to a table and a sheet piling. At this point, Zhang Ailing has been dead for a few days.
This talented legendary woman passed away sadly, and her ashes were scattered in the vast Pacific Ocean, as if her soul had drifted to the other side of the distant ocean with the seawater. ...