Although Aileen's father, Zhang, has fallen, his family background is profound and his knowledge of ancient learning is profound. He often explains a dream of red mansions to her in his spare time and writes her modern comments on a dream of red mansions. Every morning, her mother, Huang Suqiong, asks the maid to carry Zhang Ailing to bed to endorse. Later, she was sent to a new primary school to study, and then promoted to middle schools and universities to receive modern education, which made Zhang Ailing influenced by western culture at the same time. In other words, although the Zhang family has a strong feudal atmosphere, it is still influenced by the trend of the times. Therefore, Zhang Ailing not only has a profound cultural background in China, but also has a good understanding of western culture, which enables her to freely integrate the two and form her own unique style. Objectively speaking, the influence of this family on Zhang Ailing goes far beyond this. The Zhang family is a big family, with complicated relations among its members. With the divorce of parents and the introduction of stepmother, many relationships have been formed: between father and ex-wife, wife with second wife, between Zhang Ailing and father and stepmother, between mother and daughter, between brother and sister, between aunts and nephews, plus relatives, and even between domestic servants. In reality, the Zhang family, a declining aristocratic family, has become Jia. Therefore, the complicated family growth environment, the experience of big family life, the sharp contrast between wealth and hardship in life, the psychological gap between ups and downs, and Zhang Ailing's understanding of the bleak world are much deeper than ordinary people. Such a special living situation not only forms Zhang Ailing's rare personality, but also makes it easy for her to find the same feeling as Cao Xueqin in A Dream of Red Mansions: the decline and decline can't be hidden in the prosperity, and desolation and vicissitudes can be seen in the prosperity. In emotion and reason, how could Zhang Ailing not like A Dream of Red Mansions?
Zhang Ailing has a gift that surprises the world. Zhang Ailing was regarded as a "genius" from an early age. As described in her autobiographical essay "Dream of Genius", at the age of three, she was able to recite ancient poems. At the age of seven, she began to write novels: writing a family tragedy, writing a suicide girl who died in the West Lake because of poetry, and writing utopian novels ... She was extremely sensitive to colors, notes and words, and could hear colors, see sounds, touch tastes and connect words with various feelings. Especially at the end of the article, the famous saying that "life is a gorgeous robe, covered with fleas" is hard to imagine as the life sentiment of a girl of 19 years old. She is precocious, mature and extremely sensitive. Zhang Zijing, Zhang Ailing's younger brother, can confirm this. He recalled the article "My Sister Zhang Ailing" and said: "My sister is precocious and observant. I already knew the intrigue of the nanny at such a young age, thus' thinking about gender equality'. Although I am only one year younger than her, I have never known anything about these things. I think nannies are all the same: nothing more than taking care of our daily lives, eating and wearing warm clothes, playing with us and not letting us disturb the lives of adults. Her talent is naturally stronger than mine. " For Zhang Ailing, her talent is mainly reflected in her high sensitivity to art and her unique feelings about music, painting, literature and even life itself. Therefore, in his masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhou said with emotion: "I am an admirer of talent and wisdom, especially the talented person who fell in love with Cao Xueqin's' two gifts of good and evil' and' cleverness and wit are above ten thousand people'. ..... If talented women are concerned, is Zhang Ailing ordinary? No one can match her-that's why I want to write about her. The portraits painted in her novels fully reveal a handsome spirit. She is the only portrait master I have ever seen, which impressed me deeply. It can be seen that she is by no means a writer's name. If she is engaged in any artistic creation, she will be a first-class person. I am convinced of this and greatly appreciate it. "It is not an exaggeration to praise Zhou. Zhang Ailing's aura and outstanding talent have already been confirmed in her works.
His works are deeply influenced by the Red Chamber.
Zhang Ailing has a soft spot for A Dream of Red Mansions, which in turn has a profound influence on her life, creation and research. Zhang Ailing herself admits that A Dream of Red Mansions is the source of her creation. Xia Zhiqing, a Chinese-American critic, spoke highly of A Dream of Red Mansions and Zhang Ailing: he praised A Dream of Red Mansions as "as beautiful as the greatest novel in western tradition in terms of the realism level and the depth of writing psychology"; Zhang Ailing is "the best and most important writer in China today", and her masterpiece The Golden Lock is "China's greatest novella since ancient times". In short, they are the most fruitful achievements in the literary world.
When Zhang Ailing examines A Dream of Red Mansions with penetrating eyes, she can always walk into the context of A Dream of Red Mansions unconsciously. Therefore, her novel creation has obtained the true story of A Dream of Red Mansions: no matter the characters, plot, language, style, artistic conception, charm and so on, it can be found that it is inextricably linked with A Dream of Red Mansions. The basic point of this connection is the dream of red mansions complex that goes deep into Zhang Ailing's bone marrow. Exploring the influence of this complex on his novel creation is an inexhaustible topic, involving all aspects. In this regard, this paper still simplifies the complex, and analyzes the influence and infiltration of A Dream of Red Mansions on Zhang Ailing's novel creation from three basic aspects.
First, the handling of the relationship between characters in the novel. The greatest feature of A Dream of Red Mansions is that it is good at putting characters in complex interpersonal relationships to unfold stories and portray characters' personalities, which is not only the need of novel creation, but also the embodiment of the author's artistic skills and level. However, most of Zhang Ailing's novels are short stories and novellas, and even some novels have a small number of characters, but this does not prevent Zhang Ailing from building a complex and colorful relationship in the relationship between characters. For example, Bai Liusu in "Love in a Fallen City" has a mother who is not confused but plays dumb, a greedy brother and sister, a defeated half-sister, and two young and precocious nieces in the White Mansion ... Outside the White Mansion, there are Mrs. Xu, Mr. Xu, Princess Sahei Valley, and even people who don't show their true colors. This is how Bai Liusu got caught between the inside and the outside. The situation of golden lock is more complicated. At the beginning, the dialogue between two maids introduces the special position of Cao, the core figure of the novel, in the Jiangfu. Then in an ordinary morning scene, many relationships such as mother-in-law, aunt, aunt, uncle, husband and wife, brother and sister, master and servant are presented wonderfully. In the second half of the year,
Second, the description of daily life scenes. A Dream of Red Mansions describes a very exquisite living space: feasting, sleeping, washing, discussing medicine, traveling ... It describes the environment, atmosphere, utensils and furnishings in a large number with flexible pen and ink, and reproduces the colorful life. Zhang ailing is also immersed in trivial, complicated and gorgeous details of life, describing clothes, food and interior decoration ... Of course, there are many modern products in her works: drinking afternoon tea, watching movies and dancing ballroom dancing. , but the nature has not changed-there is an almost extravagant concern for trivial things in life. For example, in The Golden Lock, "Qiao Qi rummaged through everything, took out some new rulers, gave them to her sister-in-law, another pair of four or two gold bracelets, a pair of Xialian hairpin, a silk quilt, gave each niece a gold digging ear, a gold shovel or a mink warm hat, and gave her brother another golden cicada. In a description, the quantity, texture and distribution of gifts are explained in detail, which is quite similar to the scene where Pinger sent the goods given to her by Jia Fu when Grandma Liu entered: "This is a green yarn you asked for yesterday, and Grandma gave you a white yarn to make a lining. These are two cocoons, and the coat and skirt are both good. There are two pieces of silk in this bag. I want to make a dress to wear next year. This is a box of homemade snacks, some of which you have eaten and some of which you haven't eaten. Take it to the table and treat you. You can buy something better. These two pockets were filled with melons and fruits yesterday, but now this one is filled with two buckets of Yutian japonica rice, and porridge is rare ... "
Third, language. The language of Zhang Ailing's novels is obviously influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions, especially the characters' language. For example, in Heart Sutra, Han Xiao grabbed Milan and said, "Be careful of your skin!" "Be careful ..." is a common word in A Dream of Red Mansions. Other frequently used sentence patterns are: "Yes ... No?" "No …" "Piansheng …" and so on. Others directly apply the sentences in A Dream of Red Mansions, such as "Fragments of agarwood are the first incense", and two maids of the Ge family scold "Wave hoofs"; Wei Long praised her aunt as "Crystal Heart and Glass Man" and so on. And the classic paragraph of "A Dream of Red Mansions" ("If I have a face, you bully others and you call yourself an uncle; I don't want to be ashamed. When I am defeated, you will shrink your neck and make my life worse! " ) There are many copies in Zhang Ailing's novels. For example, in "Glazed Tile", father and daughter argue for a paragraph: Mr. Yao wants to pave the way for his career and future through the marriage of his daughters. But the second daughter chose a third-class clerk, Wang Junye. Confronted with her father, she said, "Scold, rejoice and make a fortune." If I am developed, you are the royal family; If I mess things up, it's because I'm dirty and ruined your innocent family style. You scold me more than anyone else! You said I couldn't understand your twisted heart! Another example is to meet Cao at the golden lock door and say, "I am on the lintel with your help!" " ! "I have seen you completely-I can beat them. You came to me for credit and money, but I couldn't beat them. You fell over there. When I saw an official, I lost my mind. As soon as my head shrank, I left with me. " Obviously, this passage was skillfully used by Zhang Ailing, which is perfect.
Looking at Zhang Ailing's life experience and temperament endowment, it is very similar to Cao Xueqin's, so it is not difficult to understand Zhang Ailing's extreme love for A Dream of Red Mansions. The sense of desolation, the sense of loss in the rise and fall of family history, has penetrated the universal survival dilemma of human beings, which is the best point for two talented writers to travel through time and space, and is also the essence of their literati character. As the saying goes, "Wan Li is still a neighbor when we know each other far and near", so Zhou said, "Only Zhang Ailing can be called a bosom friend."