"Red Rose and White Rose" is a widely circulated novella among Zhang Ailing's many works. The author uses delicate writing to describe the secret psychology and complex of ordinary people, showing people's emotions and marital life when China's Chinese and Western cultures met in the 1930s and 1940s, and revealing the difficulty for women in a patriarchal society under the integration of tradition and modernity. tragic life.
In "Red Roses and White Roses", Eileen Chang subverts the male protagonist's stereotypes of female types with meaningful descriptions of clothing, and adds fresh meaning. The two heroines use different clothing styles to show their differences in autonomy, vitality, etc., as well as their different attitudes and fates when facing patriarchal rules. It embodies Zhang Ailing's feminist stance and critical spirit, expresses her examination and concern for the plight of women's survival under patriarchy, as well as her questioning and rebellion against women's gender roles in society.
The original text is this: The life of an ordinary person, no matter how good it is, is like a "peach blossom fan". If you break your head, blood will spatter on the fan. Just add a little bit of dye on it to become a peach blossom. However, Zhenbao's fan was still blank, his pen was full of ink, and the windows were bright and clean, just waiting for him to finish writing.
The original folding fan of life is a blank side. The beautiful and happy moments in your life, as well as the beautiful longing and enjoyment of life, and even the thorns you encounter in life, under difficulties, you Rush forward desperately, smear these rich colors of life on the fan, and create a different peach blossom fan of your life. In life, many people act too rationally, often just to hide their emotional cowardice. Zhenbao is such a person. He has been in love three times, but it is not emotion that dominates such relationships, but reason. Because of rational restraint, he gave up his first love's courtship and Jiaorui's request, making his life a mess. Imprisoning oneself in the cage of reason, in the end, in the eyes of others, at most, it is just a peach blossom fan.