In terms of language form, Yi Shu's novels all take one or two sentences as a paragraph: great leap and strong sense of rhythm, which are very in line with the tense life in Hong Kong where time is precious. In addition, the language style of Yi Shu's novels is also very distinctive, which is classical, pungent, sharp and humorous, and often hits the point in a few words. For example, a passage in "Open your heart to tea" describes Wang Yunna's reaction when she met a nagging and pretentious rich woman on the plane: "I suddenly turned around and said,' Stop saying' we', madam, I have publicly admitted that I am 26 years old, and I am afraid of reflecting that you are old. "As soon as she understood, she was offended immediately, closed her mouth tightly, looked out of the window and ignored me. I really regret it. Why didn't you offend her fifteen hours ago? Anyway, she is always angry, and I don't have to drop ear oil on my shoulder to listen to dozens of cars. I just wanted to protect one of my important organs-my ears, but she was offended. Once a person insists that he is pure or fragile, any weak reason can be his support. " In her works, we can vaguely see her favorite sharp Lu Xun and Zhang Ailing's calm, objective and agile language to deal with life.
Compared with Yi Shu, Zhang Xiaoxian's narrative language is relatively peaceful, but every sentence is full of philosophy. Such as: "Love always has regrets. Not just moonlight. " "Life always wants us to appreciate perfection from regret. Isn't it? We appreciate the happiness of meeting from the thoughts of parting. We realize the value of loyalty from the pain of betrayal. We realize the deep feelings together from the sadness of lovelorn love. " "At that time, the turning point of life was very difficult. One day, I suddenly looked back and I had already flown to Qian Shan." ..... However, just a few plain and philosophical words seem to overflow from my heart. If you don't have time to say or want to say and don't know how to express it, let her say it and feel incisive.
Their times, lives and cultural backgrounds are different.
Yi Shu was born in Shanghai, went to Hong Kong with his family at the age of five, started writing at the age of fourteen, studied in Manchester, England at the age of twenty-seven, worked as a journalist, hotel manager and civil servant, divorced and married, and now lives in Canada. Her brother is a famous science fiction writer Ni Kuang. She has lived in the upper middle class for a long time and is familiar with the lives of senior intellectuals and celebrities, so there are many celebrity banquets, working girls, professors, lawyers and doctors in her works. She herself said, "My novels mainly show the bourgeoisie and intellectuals." Born in her forties, she has an elegant and concise aesthetic taste. The tastes of her mother's generation, such as "only selling black and white fashion houses", "cashmere coats" and "Swarovski crystal ornaments", have all become noble and refined objects through her wonderful pen. Yi Shu is famous for reading A Dream of Red Mansions. She wrote: "In the past five years, I have only seen a dream of red mansions, which is still related to the Red Chamber. Strangely, I can never get tired of reading this book, and the more I read it, the more interesting it becomes. If I see 50 years old, I am still not tired, and I will never study the second book again. To tell the truth, it's enough to watch A Dream of Red Mansions all my life ... As for Historical Records and The Analects of Confucius, I have to apologize for the time being. " She even has a set of Chen Geng's re-evaluation of Zhi Yanzhai's "The Story of the Stone" ... so she has a profound literary foundation in writing articles.
Zhang Xiaoxian once worked as a TV screenwriter and executive, and also wrote a screenplay, which laid a good foundation for her to be good at "making up stories". She likes psychology and Zhang Ailing, so she can always analyze love so deeply and meticulously. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, which is an out-and-out metropolis. She wrote the love story of ordinary people in the city. The ordinary men and women in her works are me, you, him, and all the people who are trying to survive and quietly looking for the other half. So real, so touching.