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This paper analyzes the role of the image of the moon in Zhang Ailing's The Golden Lock.
The Golden Lock is famous for its description of the moon. The description of the moon in the works has the author's strong feelings and becomes a unique image, which has strong suggestive and contrasting functions in a specific context. Suggest some feelings and set off an atmosphere. Enhance the appeal of the work. It provides readers with more imagination and experience space. In the work, the image of the moon appeared six times.

For the first time, "thirty years ago in Shanghai, on a moonlit night ... thirty years ago, we may have missed seeing the moon."

The second time, "it's almost dawn. The flat last quarter moon is getting lower and bigger, sinking like a red golden washbasin. It implies the decline of family and destiny.

The third time, it was the night before Chang 'an dropped out of school, the moon in Chang 'an, and the sad atmosphere.

For the fourth time, Cao Qiaoqi asked Changbai to burn opium for himself all night, and he was not allowed to share a room with Zhishou. On the couch in the middle of the night, mother and son smoked opium and made fun of poor Zhishou. "Abnormal atmosphere gloomy.

The fifth time, Changbai accompanied Cao to smoke opium, and Zhishou lived alone. "-abnormal moon, afraid of wisdom and longevity.

The sixth time, the ending echoes the beginning, locking in the overall atmosphere of the novel and making it more meaningful.

The meaning of the moon

The moon has rich symbolic significance in China culture. It is a symbol of beauty and creates a beautiful aesthetic mood. At the same time, the moon is also the carrier of human lovesickness, maintaining the lovesickness between lovers and expressing people's nostalgia for their hometown, relatives and friends. In the writings of frustrated people, the moon has a symbol of frustration.

The quiet mood of the moon has created a quiet and beautiful aesthetic mood and aroused the ethereal feelings of many frustrated literati. The moon hanging high in the sky has also aroused people's philosophical thinking, and the moon has become an eternal symbol.

The moon was originally just an asteroid the size of the moon in the solar system. Once, because it ran near the earth, it was captured by the gravity of the earth and never left the earth again. There is also a view close to the capture theory, that is, the earth keeps accumulating substances that enter its orbit, and over time, more and more things are accumulated, and finally the moon is formed.