Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The memory and whipping of the last nobleman 1

What her grandfather, grandmother and even Li Hongzhang brought to Eileen Chang was the blood of nobles. Although this identity was what she needed, what followed was the rotten and suffocating smell of more "last nobles".On March 16, 1944, the "Women Writers Gathering" was held in Shanghai's "New China Newspaper Office".During the meeting, Su Qing talked about the narrow life of female writers, who could not draw extensive materials, and always chose to write about things she knew well.Eileen Chang went on to say: "Women's range of activities is more limited, which is unthinkable. Fortunately, direct experience is not the only source of creative themes." There are also fabricated ones, but most of them are Zhang Guan Li Dai, and get the outline of the story from here, the face shape from there, and the dialogue from other places." And two months later, she published it in the ninth volume of "New Oriental" monthly magazine No. The fourth and fifth joint issues were published on May 15, 1944.The article "Own Articles" on the Internet also said: People live in an era, but this era is sinking like a shadow, and people feel that they have been abandoned.In order to prove one's own existence and grasp something real and basic, one has to turn to the ancient memory, the memory of human beings who have lived in all ages, which is clearer and more intimate than looking to the future.While Zhang Ailing was saying these words, she had almost finished writing the stories in her novel, because after another three months, her collection of short stories would be officially published.

Scholar Yu Bin said in "The Biography of Zhang Ailing": "Mr. Zhongyao's home, Chuanchang's room, etc., as the specific environment in which the story unfolds, have no meaning beyond the specific place and place. However, when they are With the Bai mansion in the novel, the Jiang mansion in the novel, the Chuanqing’s family in the novel, Mrs. Yang’s mansion in "The Show of Mercy", etc., due to an inherent similarity, they overlap and relate to each other in the readers’ minds, forming a whole. When creating a unique 'world', each specific environment acquires a new meaning beyond itself under the unified will of the author. If a scene is repeated, it may become a symbol. In the above-mentioned novels The specific environments are certainly not the same, but their internal similarities—they are all run-down old-fashioned homes, and more importantly, they have the same gray tones, the same rotten, suffocating smells—make it possible to Treat them as one." And this declining old-fashioned family points to Eileen Chang's family, and can even be extended to the entire family.Zhang Ailing's grandfather, Zhang Peilun, whose style name was Youqiao, was born in 1848 and died in 1933. He was born in a family of "scholar-bureaucrats". The capital censor, the left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Sheng Department, was the backbone of Tongguang's "Qing School" in the late Qing Dynasty.In 1884, French warships invaded the southern coast of China. Zhang Peilun, who was working in the Prime Minister's Office, was ordered to manage the coastal areas of Fujian.He built a fort on the coast of Fujian and resisted the invasion of French warships for a month. However, in the end, the Chinese navy was defeated, Zhang Peilun was dismissed, and he was exiled to Zhangjiakou, a frontier fortress.At that time, the sons Zhicang and Zhiqian (Zhong Yan) born to the first wife Zhu Zhixiang who died of illness five years ago, and the second wife Bian Cuiyu did not accompany them.

In 1886, Bian Cuiyu died of illness in Beijing. In 1888, Zhang Peilun returned to Jinmen on April 14th when he was in full command of the army.According to a letter from Li Hongzhang to Governor Liu Ming of Taiwan on April 27 of the same year: "Youqiao came back from the fortress, so he entrusted his in-laws to return to Zhongxiao in Zhangye, and Ouhuo in Xuchang. We have made friends for many generations. I hope in my life, and I will get this in old age. Deep and comfortable." From this point of view, Zhang Peilun married Li Hongzhang's daughter Li Jing (chrysanthemum couple) less than half a month after returning to Tianjin.That year Zhang Peilun was 41 years old and Li Juou was 23 years old.