The venue for the two masters to fall in love is Repulse Bay Hotel. Originally, it seemed to have been lost, but when Fan Liuyuan was about to leave Hong Kong, the Japanese army began bombing Repulse Bay, and Fan Liuyuan turned back for protection. Indiscriminate bombing, life and death, bound Fan Liuyuan, tassel's joy is not without sadness, enough, so difficult, enough to be husband and wife for ten years.
Expanding the old family is Zhang Ailing's most familiar scene. The cold view of marriage and love that "deep love is just to make a living" is related to her parents' marriage shadow. The divorce of her parents and the decline of her family in childhood have caused great trauma to her mind. What she sees from her parents and relatives is more the desolation of old-fashioned marriage.
The women in the works are rarely strong people who pursue their own values. They can't find their own existence and rarely have pure romantic love. Their love and marriage are purely a means of making a living and a bargaining chip for survival. They clearly know that they are men's vassals and tools to carry on the family line, so they try their best to make use of men's needs to seek their own interests.
Marriage is a transaction under the balance of interests. In this kind of transaction, economic interests are of course the protagonist, and love marriage has become a tool for women to make a living. Getting married for a living is just a transaction, which constitutes a bleak life for women.
This kind of marriage is not based on love, but a helpless choice made by women for life. Therefore, it can be said that in Love in a Fallen City, although Zhang Ailing took Bai Liusu's marriage as a happy ending, it did not weaken the tragic color of the novel at all, but made people feel more intense.
The ending of the novel seems perfect, but in fact it is saturated with desolation. As Xia Zhiqing said in the History of Modern Novels in China: "Aside from Zhang Ailing's sensitive heart and love for feeling pleasure, the richness of images in her novels can be said to be second to none among modern novelists in China. Tragic images such as Hu Qin, the moon, mosquito-repellent incense, mirrors and empty rooms create a sad atmosphere for the novel.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-love city