Everyone will love many people, at least two, no matter who they end up with, they will eventually regret the person who once loved but didn't go to the end. People who are together are tired after a long time. People who can't get it gradually ferment in memory and become an untouchable perfect existence.
As the saying goes, "what you can't get is often the best."
Zhang Ailing's classic Red Rose and White Rose begins: Maybe every man has had two such women, at least two. Married a red rose, over time, the red one turned into a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was still "the bright line at the foot of my bed"; Married a white rose, the white is the rice on the clothes, and the red is the Zhu Shazhi in my heart.
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Creation background
Zhang Ailing's life is full of strange and incongruous contents. Grandfather Zhang Peilun was a scholar during Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty.
The deputy officials of Duchayuan are the representatives of the famous "Liu Qing".
Grandma is Li Hongzhang's daughter, but when her father got into bad habits,
But they married a modern woman influenced by western culture, elegant and sensitive, and such a family can't be broken.
Therefore, although Zhang Ailing is famous,
The living environment in the early years was extremely cold and harsh. Loneliness, isolation and independence are her characters.
1944 In early February, Zhang Ailing fell in love with Hu Lancheng. Zhang Ailing in love,
Her mood has changed a lot. She just fell in love and longed for the care and love of a man like her father and brother. In her opinion, when she met Hu Lancheng,
Life is bright in a desolate world.
Even though Hu Lancheng was married at that time, Zhang Ailing didn't care and loved him wholeheartedly. Soon Hu Lancheng divorced and signed an engagement with Zhang Ailing. But it didn't last long,
Hu Lancheng soon liked the new and hated the old, and had lovers such as Fan Xiumei and Zhou Xiao. So Zhang Ailing stopped contacting Hu Lancheng, and her first love ended. Red Rose and White Rose was written at this time.
Main character
Tong zhenbao
Tong Zhenbao is a senior employee of an old foreign trade company in Shanghai. He is infatuated with a "red rose" of his friend's wife Wang. After several rounds of flirting, he succeeded in winning the favor of his friend's wife. Later, Wang wanted to marry him, but he was afraid of ruining his future, so he gave up the king.
Then he married Meng Yanhu, a "white rose", but Meng Yanhu was charming and beautiful.
She is gentle, but she doesn't like "the best indoor sports", which makes Tong Zhenbao unable to satisfy her pursuit of femininity. She soon got tired of this chaste wife and began to go whoring regularly.
One day a few years later, Wang, the woman he abandoned at the beginning of the chaos, met him. She is a wife and a mother.
I took a child with a toothache to see a doctor. I can see at a glance that she is a competent mother and a good wife. Tong Zhenbao couldn't believe it, because in his cognition, Wang was a "wild woman"
I can't marry.
But what makes Tong Zhenbao even more incredible is that Meng had an affair with the tailor, which led to his cognition being greatly tilted and misplaced. From then on, he began to go whoring openly and crazily to crush his wife, himself and this family.
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"Red Rose" Wang was born in an overseas Chinese family. She was sent to study in England to get married better, but because she was playing outside and had a bad reputation, she married Hong Shi by the way. Later, she met Tong Zhenbao. She has a crush on Tong Zhenbao, hoping to divorce Hong Shi and then marry him.
But Tong Zhenbao didn't want to. In the eyes of treasures, Jiao Rui is a brainless stunner. He just wants to get satisfaction from her. Even if Wang was abandoned by Tong Zhenbao, she still chose to divorce to prove her love.
Later, Jiao Rui and Zhen Bao met on the tram. At this time, Jiao Rui has become a traditional woman. She married a man named Zhu, gave birth to a child and lived a quiet and stable marriage. But because she lost her strong personality and herself, she was not very happy.
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"White Rose" Meng is Tong Zhenbao's wife. She is the most ideal wife under the construction of patriarchal culture. But she couldn't satisfy Tong Zhenbao's pursuit of femininity, so she didn't win her husband's respect and love, but was suppressed by her husband.
. She is just a decoration in Tong Zhenbao's life. She suppressed her inner needs and retreated again and again for a little stability. However, she never got her husband's sympathy, so she cheated on her, aiming at a humble tailor.
She became anxious after the incident was exposed. She was even more servile to her husband, but instead of getting his forgiveness, she got herself deeper and deeper. She has been unable to face up to her own needs and has never known the value of her existence.
She will only continue to submit to the power of Zhenbao's husband and become a desolate "white rose" without self-awareness and free soul.
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theme
First love, lover and wife have a far-reaching influence on Zhen Bao. Zhang Ailing reflects the miniature of petty bourgeoisie life and human emotional needs through delicate and complicated interpersonal relationships and psychological descriptions.
The novel does not make a strict value judgment on the two kinds of women, namely "red rose" and "white rose", but only reveals their own living conditions and describes their own emotional experiences in the development of very ordinary stories, and shows their living dilemma in a patriarchal society in these living conditions and emotional experiences.
The root cause of this dilemma is not only the two heroines' own reasons, but also the social background at that time and the deep-rooted male chauvinism in the hearts of the heroines. At that time, China was still a time when feudal cultural traditions were deeply rooted, and male chauvinism was still the dominant consciousness of society.
Under the guidance of this consciousness, once a woman threatens the authority of a man, she will be punished. Wang He and Meng are the victims of this unfair treatment.
Although there were also women who tried to break through the shackles of tradition. They went to new foreign schools, put on new dresses, and went in and out of major communication places to fight for their due rights and interests, but their gender still hindered their real progress, just like Jiao Rui in her works, bravely pursuing their true love.
But in the end, they can't really break through the shackles of tradition, which is still unacceptable. Men always impose their own moral restrictions and personality restrictions on women, so that they are always in a dilemma of survival. No matter how hard they try, it is in vain.
About the author:
Zhang Ailing (1920- 1995) is a female writer in China. Born in Shanghai, his ancestral home is rich in Hebei. His works began to be published on 1943, and his representative works include novella Love in a Fallen City, The Golden Lock, short story Red Rose and White Rose, and prose Record of Embers. 1952 left Shanghai, 1955 went to America and wrote many English novels.
After 1969, he mainly engaged in the study of classical novels. He wrote A Dream of Red Mansions. His published works include short story collection Legend, prose collection Gossip, prose collection Zhang Kan, novel Eighteen Springs and Love in the Bare Land.
During the period of 1944, Zhang Ailing met and interacted with Hu Lancheng. From 65438 to 0973, Zhang Ailing settled in Los Angeles, and from 65438 to September 8, 1995, it coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhang Ailing's landlord found her dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in westwood, California, at the age of 75.
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