Classical Quotes

1. Because you have loved, you are compassionate; because you understand, you are tolerant.

2. If you knew me in the past, then you would forgive me now.

3. There is no emotion in this world that is not riddled with holes.

4. What is the relationship between life and death? Being happy with your son, holding your hand, and growing old with your son is the saddest poem? Life, death and separation are all major events that are not under our control. Compared with the power of the outside world, we are so small, so small!

5. But we insist on saying: "I will always be with you, and we will never leave for the rest of our lives." ?As if we were in charge.

6. Some silly things must not only be said behind others’ backs, but also behind one’s own back. It's embarrassing to let yourself hear it. For example, I love you and I will love you forever.

7. If a woman cannot get the love of the opposite sex, she will not get the respect of the same sex. Women are so mean.

8. Useless women are the most powerful women.

9. Ordinary men like to teach women bad things, and they also like to change bad women and make them good women.

10. What we are most afraid of is not where we are. No matter what the environment is, how shameful the people we meet are, but over time, we can no longer distinguish ourselves from them

　11. If I blow you up, my story will be over. It killed me, but your story is still going on!

12. You are the medicine that heals me.

13. Are you young? It doesn’t matter, you will be old in two years. Youth is not rare here.

14. If a woman is cheated by a man, she deserves to die; if a woman is cheated by a man, she is even more of an adulterer; if a woman wants to be cheated by a man and fails, she will fall in love with someone else instead. It's true, it was a double act of lewdness. Killing her would also stain the knife.

15. (My whole life is over early) Only rich people who have no worries about food and clothing are qualified to say this.

Story summary

"Love in a Fallen City" is one of Zhang Ailing's most popular short stories. This is a work that explores how love, marriage and human nature survive and struggle during and after war.

The story takes place in Hong Kong. Bai Liusu, a young lady from the Bai family from Shanghai, has experienced a failed marriage, is penniless, is ridiculed by relatives, and has seen the harshness of the world. By chance, she met Fan Liuyuan, a wealthy and handsome bachelor, so she took herself as a bet and went to Hong Kong to win Fan Liuyuan's love and obtain a legal marriage status. The venue for the battle between the two love masters was at the Repulse Bay Hotel. Bai Liusu seemed to have surrendered, but when Fan Liuyuan was about to leave Hong Kong, the Japanese army began to bomb Repulse Bay, and Fan Liuyuan turned back to protect Bai Liusu. The indiscriminate bombing and the matter of life and death have tied up Fan Liuyuan. Liusu's joy is not without sadness. Enough, such hardships are enough to be a couple for ten years.

Thoughts after reading

In this legend, which is not a legend, only when you have been drunk can you know the strength of wine, and only when you have been in love can you know the depth of it. ?Inscription

?Look for ordinary people among legends, and find legends among ordinary people. ?It seems that Zhang Ailing's writing is inseparable from such a contradictory purpose, but it is such an arrangement of emotional entanglement and value dislocation that makes her unique in the colorful literary world.

No traditional love model can escape the classical romantic and aesthetic mythological style of San Mao and Qiong Yao. The normal state of love that we worship is that the mountain has no edges, the heaven and the earth are harmonious, and it is the eternal vow of eternal love with the king; it is the vow of holding the hand of the son and growing old together with the son. .

But in "Love in a Fallen City", this element that we regard as indispensable is nowhere to be found. Yes, there is indeed none in it.

Zhang Ailing’s love inertia is almost a kind of pathology that violates ethics and exposes people’s bad nature. For example, the heroine Bai Liusu in "Love in a Fallen City" is not the innocent lady described by Qiong Yao, but a divorced and somewhat depressed woman. The male protagonist Fan Liuyuan is not an extraordinary gentleman, at most he is a suave and wealthy young man. But the spark of love between them is no less than that of those sanctified men and women. Because love is secular, it appears real; because it is not similar to the myth of love, it has become a myth that cannot be underestimated in secular love.

"Love in a Fallen City" is not too limited to rendering characters in the background environment. At most she said at the beginning of the story: "The Bai Mansion is a bit like the cave of the gods. After a day of fooling around, a thousand years have passed in the world." ?In this depressing exposition, it is not difficult for us to think of the monotony and loneliness of the protagonist Bai Liusu who lives in this museum. In the old days, Liusu could only naturally fall into the misunderstanding of values, believing that no matter how good a woman was, if she could not get the love of the opposite sex, she would not get the respect of the same sex. So she was eager to find another home where she could place her youth and emotions. A twist of fate made Fan Liuyuan, who was originally a couple with his sister Baolu, fall in love with her without hesitation. In Fan Liuyuan's passionate pursuit, she had hesitated and regressed, but no amount of actions or words could compete with her heart.

Fan Liuyuan said: When Chinese foreigners become stubborn, they are more stubborn than any old scholar. ?His love for Tassel is indeed as he said---stubborn and stubborn. And it was precisely this kind of unscrupulous arrogance that he was able to capture the heart of the tasseled copper wall. The love words he spoke seemed to be very cunning, but at the same time, people felt a sense of pure being conquered while ready to move. Liusu feels that her highest ideal is to be a pure and provocative woman. The charm exuded by such a two-faced woman is destined not to be ignored by the opposite sex, so Liuyuan, the magnet, can't help but attract to this cold iron.

As a love classic, "Love in a Fallen City" is indeed very different from other works. For example: the love trajectory has no real starting point and end point; the logic of love does not completely distinguish what is right and what is wrong; The most legendary thing is that in "White Birch Forest", the war burned down a long-awaited love; while in "Love in a Fallen City", the war created an ordinary love that was originally impossible.

Its ending is indeed like what is advocated in "The Romance of the West Chamber": lovers will eventually get married. Yes, Liusu finally had a shore to anchor on and rely on, but this shore was not as strong as she had imagined. Yanagi Yuan could not give her the eternity she wanted, so she could only listen to Hu Qin and search in the process of recalling. Perhaps as said in "The Red and the Black": Love can transcend reason. And if once reason gives in, we will only become slaves of true love, but what is different from other slaves is that we choose the slave master ourselves. Perhaps it is just like the perspective in "Fortress Besieged": marriage is only one type of emotional happiness, not all; the distance of love is sometimes further set aside due to family affection.

But no matter what kind of love it is, people still have to learn to love and appreciate being loved, regardless of whether it is worth it or not. Liusu's love tragedy and comedy is like a charming poem I once wrote:

The incense is gone, the smoke is gone, and the huqin hisses in the dark night.

Maybe the beauty of the past is still covered with a protective layer,

Maybe the promise of each other is still awake.

And love can no longer look back, nor can it move forward.

The song ended and the people dispersed, leaving behind the pretense and loneliness of this city.

Maybe the memories of the past have opened a window,

Maybe time will give an answer.

But love can no longer be opened, nor can it come in again.

My heart is intoxicated, my dreams are shattered, leaving only the sadness and exhaustion of a one-man show.

Perhaps the lost reality becomes an phantom after all,

Perhaps there are tears flowing behind the strength.

But don’t forget,

In the heaven of love of the Golden and Jade Dynasties, there is another kind of eternal life,