Abstract: In her novels, Zhang Ailing has formed a unique aesthetic and creative style by creating a bleak story background and atmosphere, revealing a bleak human relationship and describing a bleak life sentiment. This paper discusses several characteristics of the language composition of Zhang Ailing's novels, such as strange metaphors, strange scenery, strange colors and strange feelings, and the reasons why her personality has an important influence on the novels.

[Keywords:] Zhang Ailing's novels desolate strange language features

Zhang Ailing is a unique and legendary writer in the history of modern literature in China. She was called "one of the most beautiful achievements in our literary world" by Fu Lei. The charm of her novels lies not only in her meticulous and vivid description of the unique customs of colonial Hong Kong and occupied Shanghai, but also in her persistent attachment to her own world and description of the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, and more importantly, in her profound insight into human nature, profound understanding of life tragedy and the unique tragic beauty she shows in her works.

Zhang Ailing's novels not only deeply explore human nature, but also show excellent "depression and sadness". What amazes the author is her language features, which can be called superb, with many amazing metaphors, wonders, colors and feelings. With the femininity of a young woman, this incisive and eye-catching description of Leng Yan, meticulous observation, flamboyant brushwork and unrestrained language, and regardless of whether the work has reached the level of a master of drama, it is undoubtedly appropriate to describe her in four words: wonderful and exquisite. Generally speaking, Zhang Ailing's novel language has the following characteristics in using strange metaphors, strange scenery, strange colors and strange feelings:

First, the words are fresh and unique, making good use of "bleak gestures" to form a strange scene.

In the garden of modern novels in China, Zhang Ailing's novels stand out. Her novel seems to be a tree full of flowers and fruits, and it seems to have just been washed out from the warm feelings of the world. The text is fresh and unique, which makes people fondle it.

(1) Image correspondence creates a story atmosphere.

At the beginning of The Golden Lock, we talked about the moon 30 years ago, which was like a tear on Duo Yunxuan's stationery. Then we went on to tell the story 30 years ago, which made the reader's imagination return to the dreamlike time 30 years ago, and it was very effective. Just like the beginning of a movie, it uses sound or pictures to convey the atmosphere of the story. It's really unusual.

(2) Prefer the word "cool"

The word "cool" is used a lot in Zhang Ailing's novels. Such as Desolate Attitude, hentai, Cold Feeling, etc. Most of her stories have the meanings of "desolation" and "sadness". They have a sense of melancholy, but it is not heavy. They are the so-called faint sadness, a beautiful and comfortable feeling. Zhang Ailing wrote in the preface of Legend Reprint: "One day, our civilization, whether lofty or flashy, will become a thing of the past. If my most commonly used word is desolation, it is because there is an uneasy threat in my ideological background. "

The second paragraph at the beginning of "Love in a Fallen City" is "Hu Qin babbles and pulls, pulling and pulling in the night with thousands of lights, endless sad stories-don't ask!" So is the ending. The divorced daughter of a "ruined" family was ironically driven out of the house by her poor brother and sister-in-law and fell in love with a sophisticated and cunning old international student. It was the fall of Hong Kong that completed this epic love. Zhang Ailing's writing is fresh and unique, depicting the fatigue, heaviness and exhaustion of Liu Yuan and Bai Liusu, and full of Xiao Zhi Xiaohui. They are not tragic, only sad. Tragedy is a kind of completion, while desolation is a kind of enlightenment.

"From Repulse Bay Hotel, there was a bridge flying through the air. There is a mountain on the other side of the bridge, and there is a wall made of gray bricks on this side of the bridge, which blocks her ... Liu Yuan looked at her and said that this wall somehow reminds me of things like the end of time ... One day, our civilization was completely destroyed, and everything was finished-it was burned out, bombed out and collapsed. Tassel, if we meet under this wall at that time ... tassel, maybe I will be sincere to you. "

What a vast and boundless realm! This is a broken and hypocritical world, and tassel can only "sit still and listen to hentai." "In this unreasonable world, who knows what is cause and what is effect? Who knows? Maybe just because she wants to be fulfilled, a metropolis has been subverted. Thousands of people died, thousands of people suffered, followed by earth-shattering reforms ... Tasso doesn't think her position in history is subtle. She just stood up with a smile and kicked the mosquito-repellent incense tray under the table. " That's a real bait hides the hook. Reading can't help but feel a chill from my heart, but I am full of joy. In this way, Zhang Ailing's words are soft and firm everywhere, with needles hidden in cotton and water flowing.

Zhang Ailing writes tassels moving into new houses. "The paint on the living room doors and windows is not dry. She tried it with her index finger. Then stick sticky fingers on the wall and put a green mark on each one. Why not? It is not illegal! This is her home! She smiled. Simply print a bright green handprint on the dandelion yellow powder wall. " This gloomy and strong feeling is full of sadness, and it is also dotted with Zhang Ailing's flying, willful and energetic personality. In the long river of history, Zhang Ailing vividly wrote a history of China, a love story in troubled times, and a classic story with a little bit of destroying old dreams. We clearly saw Zhang Ailing's troubled times complex in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s. As Hu Lancheng commented on Zhang Ailing: "Because she loves herself, she will go out into the street in shorts and classical embroidered clothes, regardless of the attention of pedestrians, and she will be intoxicated with a princess she will see on the stage or read from novels, but beautify it with her imagination, or just the pretty action of a maid, just as she was moved by the beautiful word" borrowing a red light "and wanted to turn herself into a princess. This is not narcissism. Narcissism is sad and persistent, but she is domineering. For example, when Christ walked through the crowd, a voice said,' Look, the master is coming!' Her love for herself is similar to this, just like the characters and language in her text. "

In Love in a Fallen City, life becomes an epigram. Liu Yuan was right: "Holding your hand and growing old with your son" is a sad song. The world is desolate and too heavy. His wit and humor are just the blue light of fireflies, illuminating himself in the dark. Zhang Ailing likes to use the words "desolation", "sadness", "desolation" and "tragic" to describe life. She knows China, knows the fun of ordinary life, touches its taste, and can tolerate life. "At the moment of enjoying life, I feel the sadness and irrationality of life."

Zhang Ailing said in her article: "I don't like heroism. I like solemn and stirring, and I prefer desolation. Heroes only have strength, no beauty, and seem to lack humanity. Tragedy is like bright red and green colors, with strong contrast. But it is still more exciting than inspiring. The reason why desolation has a deeper aftertaste is because it is like green with powder, which is an uneven contrast. "

Zhang Ailing's combination of aristocratic spirit and common people is due to her personality. She also used this unique and fresh language to explain her love and hate. She doesn't look revolutionary, but her novels are the daily life of a little person with human nature and soul. Her novels are flesh and blood, calm and full of wisdom, threatening Leng Yan. Only in this way can human nature have an eternal charm and a short sense of reality in parents.

The reason why Zhang Ailing's language has a special charm is that she can be as interested in writing as Jane Austen, and her pen is also prickly, but through her funny surface, we can see her "great sadness"-a kind of impersonal deep sorrow for the absurdity and boredom of her enthusiasm for life. On the one hand, Zhang Ailing has a Chaucer-style mind to enjoy life, but when observing the life situation, her attitude is sophisticated and tragic-the mixture of these two attributes makes this young writer who wrote Legend a unique figure in China literary world, so it is not difficult for us to understand her "desolation".

Secondly, the feeling and suggestion of metaphor

There are many amazing metaphors in Zhang Ailing's novels, which are exquisitely carved everywhere, just like painting. Whether full of vitality or interest, they give people unexpected surprises and endless aftertaste.

(1) sensational metaphor

In the paragraph describing the coming of the war, Liu Yuan and tassel fled, the author wrote: "stray bullets tear the air and tear the nerves." The pale blue sky was torn into strips and fluttered in the cold wind. At the same time, countless severed nerve tips floated in the wind. The bomb exploded in Skyquake, and the whole world turned black, just like a huge box with a closed lid, and countless sorrows and sorrows were locked in it. "Zhang ailing's metaphor is really clever, just like a calm bystander. Those who participate in directing a wonderful play, those who watch the play and those who act are all leisurely in the sound effects of nature. The picture is vast, spectacular and lively, and there is a kind of despair and biting pain that is about to be destroyed, which makes people feel pain, but the root cause is impossible to talk about. This is the genius of Zhang Ailing's strange metaphor.

Zhang Ailing's novel world is full of images of natural scenery. Her metaphor is vivid and vivid, which is formed by the feeling of foreign objects. Life is a stage in which one can't escape to play a role. However, Zhang Ailing is directing this stage of life. As an explanation, she used a pen to introduce us beautifully to the miracles in the past or in the drama of life. She sets off the spiritual space of the characters with natural scenery, from which people can understand the most tragic mystery of life.

For example, "the thirsty sun gurgles with seawater, gargles, spits and clicks." It sucks all the water out of people, and people become golden dead leaves and light. Fringe gradually felt strange dizziness and pleasure ... "Zhang Ailing's Theory of Things has such a rejuvenation punch line everywhere. Her metaphor is wonderful, accurate and memorable, which shows her meticulous observation. Zhang Ailing's attitude towards all beings at that time will undoubtedly be sober and calm, so she can also truly and historically interpret the tragicomedy of life for us.

(2) Suggested metaphor

In The Golden Lock, she wrote: "She went to the window and opened the dark green foreign-style curtain decorated with small fluffy balls. Jize came out of the alley with a gown on his arm. The sunny wind got into his silk pants, like a flock of white pigeons, flapping their wings everywhere. " This is a situation in which the characters are in a gloomy and depressed environment and their love will eventually be shattered. Without a lot of description and rendering, the text economy is moving, but it shows that kind of sadness very deeply. This is really a stroke of genius, natural and ingenious. The effect of this strange metaphor is more surprising than the witty discussion. Compared with the dove, the narrow situation locked in The Golden Lock is so apt, vivid, abrupt and natural that people have to admit the existence of the writer's genius. With keen thinking and interest in feeling pleasure, Zhang Ailing's novels are rich in metaphors and images, which can be said to be second to none among modern novelists in China. Qian Zhongshu is good at using clever metaphors, while Shen Congwen is good at writing landscape metaphors. They use metaphors as skillfully as Zhang Ailing, but their observation range is narrow. Not as imposing as Zhang Ailing's metaphor. Zhang Ailing's metaphor is obviously suggestive. Cao locked his love with gold, only to lock himself. Love tortured her all her life and her family. She was defeated. She was weak. This implied metaphor arouses readers' pity because of the author's deep pity. Zhang Ailing's psychological analysis of characters does not require lengthy monologues or complicated anatomy. She uses hints to integrate action, speech and psychology. "In an understatement, it gives people a desolate atmosphere and style." The two scenes of uncle and sister-in-law flirting are not only beautiful and moving, but also a combination of many seemingly opposite advantages such as implication, delicacy, simplicity, fierceness, restraint and boldness. For example, after Tong Shifang's engagement with Chang 'an, this description reads: "On the empty green grass, many people are running, laughing and talking, but they walk through a lonely and beautiful corridor-an endless lonely corridor." These implied metaphors together constitute the essence of Zhang Ailing's novel language.

The strange metaphors that can be seen everywhere in Zhang Ailing's works are full of brilliance. On the one hand, it is the power of observation, on the other hand, it is the power of expression, which greatly enriches the connotation and extension of her art. For example, "Some people can't drop anything, while others are like silk cotton dipped in rouge, which immediately seeps into a mess." "She thinks her sacrifice is a beautiful and desolate gesture …" These metaphors are really witty and calm. Zhang Ailing's strange metaphor is somewhat similar to Qian Zhongshu in wit, but the hidden meaning, situation and personality of "sad and desolate" are more prominent. This combination of implied metaphor and description sometimes really reaches the level described by Mr. Xia Zhiqing: "the most tense and greatest moment in poetry and novels".

Zhang Ailing, like an excellent conductor, took the effect of beauty to the extreme and made a curtain call. The audience still can't get out of the feeling of being brought into a beautiful melody, and they are infatuated. This is really a big hand, full of wisdom and traps, but those who fall into it can't bear to give up.

In The Golden Lock, Cao's love is disillusioned and his mentality is distorted, so he will not hesitate to pass on his hatred to his children and their love and marriage. Her son Changbai became her victim and a tame tool beside her smoking couch, and her daughter Chang 'an was expecting a successful marriage. Unexpectedly, her mother held a "Hongmen Banquet" and invited her boyfriend to come, lightly mentioning Chang 'an's addiction to opium since childhood, which made Chang 'an's boyfriend Tong Shifang listen from "startled" to "unbearable discoloration". The description of this paragraph is like this: "Changbai suddenly stood up and put his hands on the table." Shifang turned around and saw a little old lady standing at the door with her back to her face, wearing a blue-gray Dragon Palace satin gown, holding a red thermos bottle and two tall maids beside her. The sunshine outside the door is dim. The stairs are covered with lake green plaid lacquer cloth lichen, which leads to the place where there is no light step by step. "

"Suddenly stood up according to the table", a sentence describes the cowardice of Changbai people and the arrogance of Georgians under paternalism. After an incredible treachery and vicious destruction, I wrote down the appearance of my daughter Chang 'an: "Chang 'an quietly went downstairs, dark black embroidered shoes and white stockings stayed on the stairs in the dim sunlight, stopped for a while, and then went up again, step by step, into a place without lights." "

This is not only a breath in one go, but also an impeccable structural beauty. Besides, well-intentioned on the poetic basis of tragedy gives people lingering shock and endless depression. In the garden of modern novels in China, Zhang Ailing is the only novel that writes metaphors in a rich and sad way.

Third, the language is lively and the scenery is strange.

The language of Zhang Ailing's novels is colorful and the scenery is peculiar. For example, in Love in a Fallen City, tassel went to a hotel and wrote, "The whole room is like a dark yellow picture frame, with a big picture hanging on the window. The turbulent waves splashed on the curtains and dyed the edges of the curtains blue." It is written in excellent colors.

In The Golden Lock, she wrote; "It's almost dawn. The flat last quarter moon is getting lower and lower, and it sinks like a red golden washbasin. It's cold and green, and there are only some short buildings in the dark, so I can see them from a distance. The dawn on the horizon is green, yellow and red, like a cut watermelon-the sun is coming out soon. " This color description highlights the heroine's gloomy and sad mood. "It's warm outside, but my heart is completely cold." "Out of the window, or the creepy abnormal moon-a burning small white sun in the dark sky. I can clearly see in the room that the embroidered chair with rose purple is covered with tablecloth, Qi Fei's screen is red, flat, gold and five phoenixes, and water-red satin couplets are embroidered with flowers and seals ... In the moonlight, there is no blood on her feet-green, green, purple and the color of cold dead bodies. " This uneven color contrast is like a western tourist looking at this ancient China. This kind of language color expressed through pattern painting is very creative and has a beautiful structure. Abstract, Leng Yan, gorgeous. The more abstract the pattern technique is, the more freely she can display her talents, show religious piety to gorgeous colors and highlight her personalized language.

Zhang Ailing is really a master of expressing symbols with colors. She described her feelings as feelings. She walks into all life, and all beings are merciless. In her works, she also "lived her own life" and got complete silence. Therefore, her articles are warm, her colors are solemn and gorgeous, and also sad, but not bitter and biting. The so-called "all sentient beings have feelings" has great love for the world. Zhang Ailing's vulgarity and elegance, vulgarity means vulgarity, elegance means vulgarity, and her colors are all notes of life, reaching a state. She has evolved a flamboyant beauty towards big red and big green, just like Chinese western painting, which is particularly attractive. Look at her novels, the taste is mellow, as mellow as a carved flower. So she knows that green and pink are an uneven contrast, and she is the one who can paint colors very beautifully.

There are many contradictions in Zhang Ailing's character. She is a hedonist who is good at life art and life art, and she is also a person whose life is full of tragedies. Novelists of the new school often write characters' clothing colors with thick needles and big lines, only seeking to express their feelings, partly because they are not interested and partly because they are not proficient. Zhang Ailing will never be careless about this. She got the true biography of A Dream of Red Mansions, trying to be meticulous and accurate, and her knowledge of clothing and color matching gave her capital. She told Su Qing: For her, a good dress is a good dress; It is necessary for herself; For everyone, it is to show her status; For the person she is determined to attract, it is attraction. For her, clothes and colors are small-scale creations, games, the art of life, and artistic life. For everyone, it is the expression of her personality, temperament and mood, and it is also the effect she hopes to create.

Therefore, she created a close-fitting environment for herself with strange clothes, and matched her life with the continuation of strength with red and green. Zhang Ailing wrote in Zhang Kan, a collection of Zhang Ailing's soliloquies: "I am extremely sensitive to colors, notes and words. When playing the piano, I imagined eight notes with different personalities, wearing bright hats and dancing hand in hand. I learn to write articles, and I like to use words with strong colors and sonorous rhymes, such as' Pearl Grey',' Dusk' and' Wan Ru', so I often make pile-up mistakes, but I enjoy it. Until now, I am still reading Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and the tacky Paris Fashion Report to find this attractive word. "

Indeed, Zhang Ailing is full of joy in life, which is an extraordinary beauty, and so is the language of her novels.

Su Qing, Zhang Ailing's contemporary female writer, made a pertinent evaluation of her: "I read Zhang Ailing's works and feel that there is a charm of my own, which I want to swallow eagerly. Reading is like listening to sad music, even fragments will be moved. Her metaphor is so clever that some people find it cute even if they don't understand it. Its bright colors, like a painting, can't even catch up with the best painting. Maybe there is no such color in the world, and Ms. Zhang Can is really a' fairy'. I admire her most, not blindly. "

Zhang Ailing's novels give people the impression that they are colorful and have vivid feelings. Her language is a combination of affectionate words, which is civilized in the modern sense. With the cultural imprint of Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1930s and 1940s, as well as feelings for the world, it permeates between the lines, lifting weights lightly, and sometimes it seems to be inadvertently pointed out, all of which become witty remarks. She is full of beautiful, witty and beautiful language, which shows that her national and folk cultural qualities are quite profound. The value of Zhang Ailing herself and her literary language just shows the complex and desolate connotation of the Chinese nation in a certain historical period. She uses strange metaphors, strange sights, strange colors and strange feelings to compose all this, just like her favorite word "a beautiful and desolate gesture", which gives people a aftertaste and an inspiration. Zhang Ailing left us with many ancient historical images of the blending of ancient and modern languages and cultures, from which we will undoubtedly get some far-reaching enlightenment.

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