Zhang Ailing during the Hong Kong University period

We have already confirmed the auto-translated features of \”Small Group\” through two articles that we have studied and considered. We have done a story-based interpretation of the entire article of \”Small Group\”. From this article, I will make a new \” Literary interpretation of Literary Group, trying to understand and analyze from its literary perspective.

The non-linear structure of triple time and space intersection

《Small \”The Group\” starts with waiting and dreams, and shows a few time to change from the beginning, Establishing the \”Big Test MorningA calm mood\”Displayed with three layers of time and space intersections, and the protagonist Jiuli seemed to be in the Rubik\’s Cube, lying on her thirty birthday Jiuli, who was watching the moonlight in the bed at night (September 30, 1950), Jiuli, who wrote \”the sound of rain\” at her desk (1940s), and Jiuli, who suddenly broke out in the Hong Kong war this morning (1941) December 8).

This non-linear incident was created in Zhang Ailing\’s late period It is becoming more and more prominent in the middle, such as the intertextuality of photos and memory in \”Contrast Notes\”.

In the morning of the big test, the calm mood is probably comparable to the dawn before the army fights, like \” The rebels in Spartakus look forward to the Roman army in the morning fog, the most terrifying scene in all the battle films, because it is completely waiting.

The first paragraph first describes the \”quiet mood in the morning of the big test\”, just like \”the terrifying wait before the war\”, although there is no clear time , but what is contained in it is the storyteller (Zhang Ailing) who wrote \”Small Group\” (1970life experience. As soon as you open your head, you will feel that the overall emotional basis of this book is depressed.

Julie was almost thirty years old and wrote in her pen book: \”The rain sounds like living in a stream Next. Ning wants to rain every day, thinking that you are not coming because it rains.\”

The second paragraph directly turns to Jiuli\’s diary before she was thirty years old. Jiuli was almost 30 years old, writing the mood of a woman who was addicted to single-mindedness/was broken up (what is the situation? \”you\” means who we still need to look back to know). I feel hurt and comfort myself.

On my thirty birthday, I saw the moonlight on the sun in my bed at night, and the cement rubbing was like a collapsed stone tablet There, bathed in the blue moonlight of the late Tang Dynasty. The moonlight was more than a thousand years ago, but there were too many in her thirty years, and the tombstone was as heavy as it was in her heart.

Zhang Ailing was born on September 30, 1920, on August 19, when she was 30 in 1950. In the past few years, Zhang Ailing experienced the resurgence of her career with Hu Lan and her writing career. She finally discovered a new path in the field of film editing and met the first Sang Hu in love. And luck makes people feel bad, and in 1950, her relationship with Sang Hu also came to the intersection…

I think it was because of this that she was in an international relationship on her 30th birthday The rupture of the thirty-year-old birthday was broken, and I would be hurt by watching the moon on my 30th birthday.

Zhang Ailing is good at writing \”moonlight\”. The moon is a very important image in her novel. On the night of her 30th birthday, the cement column on the sun\’s platform is as heavy as the tombstone. In the heart, it directly expresses the heaviness and pressure in her heart. This feeling of heaviness comes from both the reflection of the past month, the sorrow of the passing of years, and the fear of the unknown future, and the \”blue moonlight of the late Tang Dynasty \”All of a sudden it made people think of Li Shanghin\’s \”the bright moon in the sea is bright\”, and it also added a sense of depression and sorrow to this heavy and stressful atmosphere.

But she often thought that Lao Xiao had at least one advantage, and there was no need to take the exam. However, I have always been doing dream tests, and it is always a nightmare.

How much did Zhang Ailing leave in the exam?The deep shadow made her feel that she didn\’t need to take the exam when she got older, and it wasn\’t that scary. But when she got older, she still did not have the nightmare of taking the big test, which combined Zhang Ailing\’s own life experience: this is a metaphor that Zhang Ailing\’s life was always under extreme pressure. It clearly shows that this passage returns to the life experience of the readers (Zhang Ailing) writing \”Small Group\” (the 1970s).

The bells have been beaten. The pumping bucket rumbles far away and near. Bibi and his classmates asked and answered each other on the pillow across the wall, and they whispered each other. The sound of their questions was very natural, but when they reached their own answer, they immediately turned into a single, sad little voice, and they reported their bones one by one, and they couldn\’t bear to hear it. Bibi\’s re-level last year.

The atmosphere of Zhang Ailing\’s writing is really terrible. The sound of the bell, the sound of the pumping bucket, and the inverted way enters the December 8, 1941 recalled by the person in charge Jiuli. In just a few words, we brought us back from the night of her 30th birthday to the morning when she was waiting for the big test at the University of Hong Kong, and the readers\’ visual line quickly retreated.

If we read it later, we will find that such time-space conversions and narratives are interspersed in \”The Small Group\”. Zhang Ailing always involuntarily joined the narration of the \”third-party\” teller (Jiuli), as if she was watching her own movie drama, and couldn\’t help but burst into a screen and complain about the person in the drama.

When writing \”novel\”, in order to maintain the virtual structure of \”novel\”, we should maintain appropriate separation from the characters as an outsider. But Zhang Ailing couldn\’t stay out of the matter. It was her writing photos of her past relentlessness during the creation process.

2. The heavy metaphor of war and lights

In the morning of the big test, the calm mood is probably comparable to the dawn before the army fight. For example, in \”Spartaks\”, the slave aggression rebels in the morning fog, all The most terrifying scene in the battle film, because it is completely waiting.

This passage even appears at the end, and the call from beginning to end should make the use of the image of war particularly interesting—\”Roman Army\” implies that Hong Kong is about to be The historical background of slump is also a metaphor for Zhang Ailing\’s stressful life difficulties. This method of setting up personal crisis and historical catastrophe is in \”Jiangcheng\”In \”The Legend of the Condor Heroes\” there is already a physical manifestation when Bai Liusu\’s marriage and the city relationship form an intertextual relationship.

Jiuli washed her face and returned to her small room, and she forgot to close the platform lights. The B-shaped small platform lights were On the window table, the nipples of yellow spherical glass cover was still lit, reflected on the gray and blue sea in the early morning. Somehow it felt a strange feeling. She seemed to give a slight to give it a slight and immediately twist it. Her mother was a school fan. At that time, middle-aged women went to elementary school. I studied the regulations of this place thoroughly. The dormitory has a lamp installed on its own. I specially gave her three money from the company to buy one of them. Ning Ke took the risk of breaking it and brought it in a box. The European War was unable to go abroad, so it was easy to change to Hong Kong. Hong Kong coins were three to one, and Jiuli also felt that the money was not worth it. In fact, the white flowers have already had flowers. The most common class is taught by the three joint recruiters in Oxford Bridge London, which is of course a shocking surprise.

This paragraph needs to be combined with Zhang Ailing\’s real experience. Here:In 1939, Zhang Ailing won the University of London Award as the No. 1 in the East. However, due to the outbreak of the European War, I was admitted to the Literature College of Hong Kong University. Although there was a agreement when her parents divorced in 1932: her father Zhang Zhiyi was responsible for the support of her children\’s care and education, and she was particularly stressed that Zhang Ailing wanted to send her abroad when she graduated from high school. But later due to a conflict with her parents, in early 1937, Ailing escaped from her father and went to her mother. After that, all her academic fee supplementary courses and residency fees were held by her mother. The inheritance inherited by my mother is mainly antiques, most of which are unmarketed, and the economy is not very abundant. But in order to see her daughter\’s future, she tried her best to criticize her for her great information and finally sent her to study in Hong Kong. The mother was under tremendous economic pressure and was also in a hurry to go back to Europe to get together with her boyfriend, so she often complained that her daughter was dragging her down.

Learn these backgrounds, we can understand. Zhang Ailing, who returned to the room after washing up, found that the platform lights forgot to be kept in touch, why it seems like they were being smeared-she was very short of Because of this, I love this lamp very much, and I worry that I have to spend money to buy new ones.

\”I\’ll go down first,\” she pushed open the half-leaf door of the western wine bar and said to Bi.

\”When did you sleep yesterday?\”

\”I slept very early.\” At least I was awake.

Bibi was lying in her sleeping bag. She lived in Hong Kong and knew it was Asia\’s hot weather, but she still sent a sleeping bag because her mother was afraid that she would lift her quilt while sleeping and she was worried. She took out a light from her sleeping bag, and it was still a little bright.

\”Are you reading a book in the quilt?\” Jiuli didn\’t understand, and there was no light extinguishing order in the dormitory here.

\”No, it was cold last night.\” Used as a hot water bag. \”My son wants to jump,\” she said with a smile, twisting the lights, still holding them upside down on the iron rubbing on the bed. \”Have you prepared it?\” Jiuli shook her head and said, \”I don\’t have any complete notes.\”

\”You Is it true or not that? ”

”Really.” She saw Bibi’s fearful smile on her face and immediately said lightly: “You will probably pass the exam.”

But Bibi knew she was not passing the exam. \”I\’ll go down first.\”

Then was the conversation between Jiuli and Bibi (Yan Qing). Bibi and Jiuli have completely different personalities, they are lively and open and eccentric. She put the table lamp in her sleeping bag as a hot water bag.

Bibi had a sleeping bag specially prepared by his mother, and he had to open the platform lights all night to keep warm, but Zhang Ailing was so tight that she didn\’t turn off the platform lights in time. The comparison of this detailed section shows the different situations of the two people. Bibi was born in a mixed-race jewelry treasure, her mother was from Tianjin, and her father was a Slaranka jewelry treasure merchant. She was well-off and loved. It’s also hard to blame her for being so lively and open-minded. She exists like Zhang Ailing\’s contrast group.

Bibi asked her how she was preparing for the exam, and she said there was no problem with passing the exam.

Bibi also knows that Zhang Ailing\’s goal is not to pass the exam. From the later text, we can know that she is a top student and has won many awards, and economic pressure also makes her study hard. Compete for good results, get a bonus, and reduce the burden on the light mother.

She lowered the floor with her steel ink bottle ink book. In the school where the Rubber Prince\’s daughter entered, she did not have a water bottle, and was always brought with her. She was very touching.Objective.

Those who could read Hong Kong University in that era were either rich or expensive, Students include Wang Jinghua\’s niece and the daughter of the Rubber King, like the small United Nations. Zhang Ailing is the only student in the school who has no self-contained water bottle. After seeing this, you will know why the pressure on Jiuli\’s exam is so great. As a smart and talented girl, if she is in a better position, she can treat her academic performance as a love-go-like vote, but Zhang Ailing doesn\’t have this capital.

Cherish the details of \”Three-block B-shaped platform light\” We told Zhang Ailing about the embarrassment of Zhang Ailing during the university… During the university, the sense of beauty brought by this lack of material things makes people think of the graceful leather shoes in \”Jasmine Fragrance\” .

The dual pressures of economy and education are on her, and it is hard to blame her for using the battle metaphor to compare herself to a slave who has not yet lived or died.

After reading this, you may ask: Didn’t Zhang Ailing come from a bellfish food? Not the descendant of the noble tribe of the Hikh? Isn’t it Li Dongzhang’s former daughter? Why is her college life like this? Why is this in her life?

In fact, \”Small Group\” tells us the auto-translated novel about why Zhang Ailing\’s life is like this.

Want to know the answer? Let\’s look back with me.