Chapter 5 Afterword

In the color ring, Zhang Ailing's life is written. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In 1947, Zhang Ailing's heart died. She told people in the novel "Lust and Caution" that the person who killed her was a traitor man. She is like Wang Jiazhi, and Hu Lancheng is like Mr. Yi. Mr. Yi is the small leader of the Wang puppet regime's intelligence work, Hu Lancheng is a big talent in the Wang puppet regime's propaganda work, and Zhang Ailing questioned how the two of them, as men, did they attack women. Wang Jiazhi can't live, although she saved Mr. Yi's life, but Mr. Yi admits at most that he has a good impression of her, and he will not be more grateful anyway. In 1944, Hu Lancheng married Zhang Ailing, and the following year Hu Lancheng married Zhou Xunde and Fan Xiumei. So, her heart died. In "Lust and Caution," written more than thirty years later, she told people who had killed her.

Zhang Ailing's blessing is too thick, and the blessing is too thin, and in her life, she takes up too much time when she is miserable and lonely. People like to say that her grandmother is the daughter of Li Hongzhang, saying that she is from a noble background, and how her grandfather Zhang Peilun has insights into court politics and is not ordinary, but they ignore the fact that these two gave birth to an unsuccessful son. The son had been married three times, first with Eileen Chang's mother, second with a prostitute, when Eileen Chang was five years old, and the third time when Eileen Chang was a teenager, with another woman. Zhang Ailing's parents are typical of giving birth to a baby, not caring about the baby, and not picking up the baby when the baby runs away. Zhang Ailing's father doesn't do things all day long, watches plays, drinks tea, reads newspapers, smokes big cigarettes and loses his temper, and can't even talk to his sister, he can't live, and he has to beat people when he is in a hurry: to live a good life, he has to settle things at home, settle down the people in the family, so that the family can stay in this house. Zhang Ailing's mother went abroad when Zhang Ailing was four years old, and only came back when she was sixteen, and then went abroad again, never returned. Both of them are in a powerless life, and I guess they don't spend a day without resentment and anxiety, they don't have the mind, the time, the opportunity to manage the lives of their two children, and they can't go deep into their inner world. Zhang Ailing and her brother can only take care of themselves. She grabbed money when she grabbed Zhou, she began to plan her life when she was seven or eight years old, thinking about what work was better, and she was thinking about grabbing something all her life.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Ailing is a smart person and a big fool, too mature and too naïve. People like her may be able to live only their inner life, live in their own hearts, have fewer desires, do not expect more warm things in life, completely close themselves, and the beauty of this world has nothing to do with them. But she couldn't, the home she lived in was not like her own, her stepmother and father bullied her, she had hatred early, she was very young, she imagined that a shell fell on their house, and everyone died cleanly. She read more newspapers and magazines, and the love of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly pie drew a love fairy tale imprint in her heart. When she was very young, she used words to imagine her life, such as writing about the suicide of a young girl who fell out of love, wrote about the family tragedy of her aunt and sister-in-law's fight, and wrote about a happy village, similar to Tao Yuanming's paradise, when she was only seven or eight years old. She has felt the heat and coldness of the world, and she has too much time to analyze the life around her over and over again, and she can also write these lives into words. At that time, she thought that God had given her such a means to write her life with a pen, and she also thought that she could write her wishes with her own pen and then realize them in reality, such as having a better family, more life, and a better life for herself. But life is more complicated than her.

This stupid woman, even God bullied her. When she was twenty-three or four, he gave her so many surprises and happiness at once. In 1943 and 1944, her major novels were completed. These novels are placed in the history of modern literature, just like Gao Shan, no one can surpass her. She had an unexpected fame, status, money, achievements. She also fell in love with Hu Lancheng. She is confident that her talent is equal to her second look, just as a man takes his own talent as his first look, talent and looks are now a resource that she wants to use to tie a man. She hoped for a hundred years of goodness, and Hu Lancheng also promised her that "the present world is stable and the years are quiet". But the stability of the present world must win people's hearts and minds, the years must be quiet, the years must be quiet, she is stable in one person, quiet is better than one person, she feels that Hu Lancheng is smart when he knocks on the soles of his feet, so she appreciates it, thinking that Hu Lancheng is the same as her, and even she may think generously that she can give him freedom, as long as he can know where the door is after he is enough outside. However, Hu Lancheng is fundamentally different from her. He is a self-taught man, he should be perceptive, but he does not have a sense of humility for the complex and diverse world and inexhaustible knowledge, and he does not have the idea that knowledge and talent can be used to love human life and respect human values. He did not want a woman, a family, but at the same time, without any disguise, he needed many women, many families, morality, responsibility, respect for people, necessary shame, inner turmoil, possible harm to others, he did not have to think about anything. The essence of love is selfish, it requires two people to belong to each other and be exclusive. Based on this, it requires equality and respect between two people, mutual appreciation and cherishment, and therefore, it must be cautious, jealous, and does not allow emotional betrayal and possession. At the same time, love should be put into marriage and into life. From this, we can conclude that the test of whether a person loves you or not is to see whether he regards you as his only one, whether he will get along with you as an equal, whether he will cherish it, whether he will be afraid of hurting you, whether he can give you marriage, and whether he can withstand the test of trivial things in life and the exposure of each other's shortcomings. To see whether a person is worthy of love, it is not to see how good he is, but to see how good he is to you, not to see how talented he is, but to see how much sincerity and how much dedication he has when he manages his feelings, not to worship each other and the mentality of being a slave, but to see how he takes you seriously. Hu Lancheng will marry so many women, and the dream of a man and a home that Zhang Ailing needs will be shattered.

A twenty-three or four-year-old girl, to be a wife, to organize her own family, to choose the right person who can live together for the rest of her life, and to have children, face it every day, it is really a big thing, the first experience in her life, and the decision that makes people's hearts very empty. People don't have eyes before and after, they can't see how the future will change, and no one can say whether the man or woman who likes them will eventually become what they like or what they hate. So don't believe that if a person is shrewd, he will inevitably do things properly. When a person is determined to get married, who dares to say that he absolutely has the bottom in his heart. Assuming that Zhang Ailing has a complete family, many parents and siblings, and there can be many people to advise her, her life may be different. Parents will whisper that this woman has changed recently, often laughing secretly alone, and humming and singing when she walks. The sister will say, "I'm in love with a man." Then the family would look at her at the dinner table and laugh, force her to confess, and ask her to bring her boyfriend home for dinner. Later, I saw that she always found all kinds of reasons not to take home, and finally found out that Hu Yuan had a wife, and Zhang Ailing was fifteen years old, and she was still a high-ranking official of Wang Jingwei's government, so the whole family worked together to stop it. The women are afraid that such a person will not be able to keep it, afraid that she will be flashed halfway, and the brothers feel that such a person has evil intentions towards his sister, and he must be taught a lesson, and his father will know that in terms of right and wrong, Wang Jingwei's regime is despicable, and it is an act against conscience, the Japanese will eventually withdraw from China, and Hu Lancheng's life will be stained after all. She will fight, saying that love is only a matter of two people, but those tears, advice, attitudes, opinions, experiences, and common sense will always flash in front of her eyes and appear in her mind, and she has to deduce her correctness in her heart over and over again. Maybe she will follow the family's intentions on the surface, and still communicate secretly, maybe she will cool down this relationship and turn it into a memory, maybe she will get into it and can't pull it out, insist on going her own way, and the family will give in, and finally Hu Lancheng divorced, came to her house to meet her parents and family, ate and played cards and gossip, and everyone scrutinized this person from the details, and the parents privately looked for Hu Lancheng, one in order to entrust his daughter to him, and the other was to beat him inside and outside the words, so that he did not dare to easily give birth to the outside heart and abandoned Zhang Ailing. Then the family will win the media to marry and announce it to the world. Once Hu Lancheng and Zhou Xunde and Fan Xiumei get married, Zhang Ailing can go back to her parents' house to recuperate and recuperate. Zhang Ailing can also find a mediocre man at the beginning, start an unhappy marriage, and then cheat halfway and have a lover, and the damage will be less than the current situation.

But man's fate is so destined, there is an iron-like logic in fate, and everyone is destined to have only one way to belong to him. Her fate is like this, and every step has already been scheduled. Beginning in 1945, her fortune began to wane, and happiness slipped out of her hands. Hu Lancheng is a traitor, wanted, she is called a cultural traitor, and more importantly, she did not get the marriage she wanted and the man she wanted, as she said in her letter to Hu Lancheng, it was Hu Lancheng who had long disliked herself, so Zhang Ailing decided not to like Hu Lancheng anymore. At that time, her heart was dead, and there was no way back. It stands to reason that with her literary achievements, she can enjoy the happiness and beauty brought by success in her later life, but in the era she lives in, there are party strife in politics, she wants to stand in line, there are loyal traitors in the national mood, she is asked to review, there are various standards for suppressing freedom in literature, and she is required to obey, there are too many things in the world that she does not know, and she needs to compromise, suppress, and be humiliated.

In 1978, she wrote "Lust and Caution". She wants to give an explanation to herself, an explanation to the world, and an explanation for her love.

People love to watch the excitement. We can get a kind of psychological compensation from the excitement of others: our own life always has a lot of troubles, so we are not satisfied, and we can't throw away our own life, it is better to run out of our own life, talk nonsense in other people's stories, and give us some advice. Especially Zhang Ailing, a woman, a talented woman, and a female writer with a failed marriage, was abandoned by others. Now everyone is like looking at the Western scenery, eager for Zhang Ailing to say, do you regret it, have you forgiven Hu Lancheng, do you think he still makes you like it now, do you still don't care that he is a traitor, do you still miss that love, will love be greater than political attitudes, greater than political choices, greater than resentment, greater than the unhappiness you once had, is there a kind of poetry in love, so that you don't care about all kinds of humble inappropriateness in life.

Zhang Ailing is not stupid, although she was once stupid, it was when love was carried away, but she is a writer, she has a sober understanding of the world in her instinct, she must be in the world to tell a story that people are convinced, she must see through all the stupidity, in order to fool the reader. We can assume that the reader is stupid, because the reader is willing to believe the writer stupidly, thinking that the life that the writer is talking about has another form, which is not the life they are encountering now. Readers often feel like beans in life, and then let themselves be mentally handicapped when reading the work, which is a kind of happiness without brains. But a smart writer just doesn't let the reader be stupid, and if everyone is stupid, the world will be over.

Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong at the age of 32, went to the United States at the age of 35, married the American writer Lai Ya at the age of 36, Lai Ya was 30 years older than her, Lai Ya died at the age of 47, and she died of illness at the age of 75, and she was found a week after her death. She exiled herself and cut herself off from the world. She had no children, no family, not many friends, and she was completely lonely. The streets are lively, the United States is lively, other people's lives are lively, and she only has loneliness. No one can gossip, such as the parents are short, trivial, and even quarrel with her, make her lose her temper, and it is okay to have some complaints, and even some complaints. Without these, there was no one to accompany her shopping, to go shopping, to cook a good meal for her, so that she didn't have to cook by herself when she came home, to pinch her shoulders when she was tired, and to accompany her when she couldn't sleep. Women are those who please themselves, who she is for, who will please her, I don't know. She will also think of Hu Lancheng. It's no wonder if you don't want to. But this is a painful and tangled thought, a resentful thought, a happy thought that wants to bite him to death and kill him, and a hatred that he is no longer a relative, he is more like an enemy. There is no atmospheric person, everyone will talk about the truth, how can it be so easy to forgive others, it is clear that he ruined her life, and from the basic common sense of life, from the general experience, from the judgment of right and wrong that people have agreed on since ancient times, Hu Lancheng is immoral, disrespects her, and hurts her. Enemies, at this time, are really enemies, but they are not the kind of enemies who are intimate and affectionate, flirtatious, and have real grievances. I want to, but don't say it's love, this can't be put down, it's just an awkwardness that can't be removed in my heart. You can also call it a psychological shadow, a scratch and itch.

Perhaps a new love can heal an old one. Although pessimistically speaking, character is fate, some people will always make the same mistake, in the place where they fall, they always fall repeatedly, and when some people are unlucky, they will also plug their teeth when they drink cold water, this man cheated on her, maybe the next man cheated on her again. But we prefer to believe that one day people will learn their lessons, learn to be smart and become well-behaved, and luck will not always be bad luck in the end. Many people see Zhang Ailing as proud, with high eyes, and they will not easily look at anyone. Don't you know, the more proud people cover up their vulnerability, the more they cover up, the more they accumulate more vulnerability, and it seems that the heart of the iron wall, once broken, will suddenly open like a paper paste. It can also be said that Zhang Ailing is kind and a realistic person, and her requirements for love and life are not high. It is easy to be intimidated by her talents, to worship her, to look up to her, and to capture her heart with her talents, and most importantly, to see her as a woman, or as one of the fragile and helpless beings. She now has a hard shell in her heart, and she can't put it down, after all, the first love and the first man gave her a frame of reference, which can be a good standard or a bad cordon. She will demand that the second man be talented, not weaker than the first, or she will suffer: this is a matter of face. People who have been hurt will ask for this, the second love is rather a competition project, don't let the first man look down on himself, saying that she can't find a better person without me, this is also to announce to the world that I have a better and better man love when I leave him. Also, she will look at all men with the shortcomings of the first man, and then maintain a vigilant, reserved, and prudent mentality. It is necessary to strike at her guardedness and reference contrast, to prove the diversity of ways of love, and where the essence of love is, and how love requires both parties to let go of their bodies, in what sense the new love will be different from the old love, and why the new love will be better. But such a man did not appear.

At the age of fifty-eight, Zhang Ailing wrote "Lust and Caution". This novel of hers can be said to be well-intentioned. This is a confession, a grievance, a review. This novel has two premised positions, one is political correctness. Patriotic students want to assassinate traitors who collude with the enemy country. Although this assassination failed, and the patriotic schoolgirl was shot by a traitor, its justice existed. The second is the questioning of love and the despair of the man who plays on the spot. The criticality is obvious. Zhang Ailing needs to clear herself, when someone said that she was a cultural traitor in four or seven years, she had a confession, saying that personal feelings and political rights and wrongs have nothing to do with it. Her marriage to a traitor man does not mean that she is a traitor. This novel further clarifies her view of right and wrong. The group of university students in Hong Kong were dissatisfied with the indifference of the patriotic sentiment of the Hong Kong people, and they were not from a certain party or faction, nor were they professional secret agents, but they participated in such actions because they wanted to be patriotic. She also repeatedly said in the novel that Mr. Yi and them, because they took refuge in Wang's puppet regime, lived a prosperous life and enjoyed privileges, and competed with Zhou Fohai to clean up the family more comfortably. Although in the novel, she wants to reduce the traitor to an ordinary man, and while acting on the scene, she also has feelings and expectations for love, but he ruthlessly kills people through the assassination of patriotic students, morally convicts them, and uses the compassion that human nature must have to illustrate their cold inhumanity. At the same time, she used Mr. Yi's ruthlessness to Wang Jiazhi, and said in many places that he did not buy things for Wang Jiazhi alone, to illustrate the lightness, cuteness, and not solidity of this love, so that people have a reason to fight for Wang Jiazhi, and at the same time put this kind of love on the judgment table. What best reflects her attitude towards love is that she abruptly inserts a few quotes from others in the novel, one is that power is a man's aphrodisiac. Since power is an aphrodisiac for men, then power is external, and if a man does not have power, the value of love is reduced, which is almost a mockery. The second is to quote Gu Hongming's two sentences, the first sentence says that a woman's heart to a man's heart has to go through the stomach, and a man's heart to a woman's heart has to go through *** to the stomach, which is to put him in life, and to *** is to put her on sex. In the second sentence, Gu Hongming believes that it is legitimate and reasonable for a man to have several women, just as a teapot should have several teacups. And it is unreasonable for a woman to have several men, just as a teacup should have several teapots. She summed up Gu Hongming's words in two words: the next work. She compared herself to Wang Jiazhi and Hu Lancheng to Mr. Yi. Like Wang Jiazhi, she is new to society and met a man who thinks she loves her, Hu Lancheng, like Mr. Yi, is an important figure in Wang's puppet regime and a traitor. However, what she clearly tells readers is that she also regards herself as Zhang Ailing, Zhang Ailing is more sober than Wang Jiazhi, she is a woman, an old woman, an old man who has seen life thoroughly, to stand behind Wang Jiazhi and observe coldly. Hu Lancheng is not Mr. Yi, Mr. Yi is just a man's involuntary cheating, and Hu Lancheng is a shameless insult to a woman. She also sees herself as a writer, a writer who transcends the personal grievances of Eileen Chang and Hu Lancheng, transcends political attitudes, transcends simple moral judgments, and uses storytelling methods to tell people the truth of the matter. There are too many women, in order to get a man who is better than themselves, they do not hesitate to put themselves very low, and even do not want dignity, do not want right and wrong, do not care whether the man cherishes themselves or not, some female writers in Taiwan and Hong Kong have always regarded Hu Ye as noble and worthy of admiration, Zhang Ailing in the novel, in fact, wants to scold them twenty sentences:

"Fool!! Fool!! Fool!! Fool......"

"I was also a fool back then." Zhang Ailing thought, "Wang Jiazhi may also be a fool, but there is a reason for it."

She wants to write about universal humanity.

"The way to a man's heart is through the stomach." "The way to a woman's heart is through the underworld."

These two later familiar words also came from the article "Lust and Caution".

Zhang Ailing's novel has nothing to say, it is a novel that has stood the test of time, and it can withstand the changes of time and still never get tired of reading.

Even in the 21st century, there are still many people who like to study her books and novels. Even Zhang Ailing's collection of works has been included in the list of extracurricular must-read books for junior high school and high school students, which can be seen in general.

Jiuxin originally thought that it would be a short story anyway, so he would simply write a few more articles or something, but then he also felt that two or three classic articles would be enough.

These few articles are almost the same, let's let her dear readers get used to it first, and it's not too late to slowly launch other types of literary style novels. What's more, there are still a few days before the magazine goes on sale, and she plans to write some other articles on the forum.

………… (To be continued.) )