Chapter 10 Chapter Nine

It is a work on red studies left by Zhang Ailing, so it becomes the main body of my review of this little book, and I plan to start with her preface. This preface is very important, it represents her ten years of academic achievements and academic mood, and it is a key to understand her literary heart. This preface represents her writing style.Its characteristic is that it is very plain, does not play with brushwork, and tweaks some "literary language".The real "vernacular", simple heart sounds. But what makes me more comfortable reading is that I don't put on "academic" airs, don't write "academic papers", and don't have the smell of foreign stereotypes.

However, there is a "disadvantage" for some readers: she herself is talented, intelligent, impatient with "mother-in-law" nagging, and does not like the tone of "teaching mortals". She "cherishes ink like gold" and only writes When I wrote the "Conclusion", I didn't know that the euphemistic part was omitted (I understand it), ordinary readers and stupid students would think that what she wrote was often "half sentences" and "incomplete sentences", and felt "too irregular"... …It's a little hard to understand, and I can't digest it.

This is the gap and "conflict" between Shangzhi Shanghui and Changzhi Changhui. I hope this "shortcoming" does not hinder some people's desire or interest in reading.You need to be careful, and you need to "train" your own reading habits. Don't just like "text in order", rigid "classroom assignments" that are superficial and lack depth and rich superficial and thin text. You also need to constantly improve your ability of "enlightenment"—you don't have to "save effort", you have to spend a little time thinking, exploring, and exploring, and take the initiative to match the author's voice.

In fact, this is not only a characteristic of Zhang Ailing's articles, but also the original book of Cao Xueqin, so why not?The author and the reader should not be "enemies", but "confidants and irreversible". "A piece of "Jinse" solves people's difficulties".There are not many poets, and poets who understand them are even rarer.Cao Xueqin and Zhang Ailing, rather than being positioned as writers, should be attributed to poets.The poet's prose, "vernacular", essays, letters... also have poetic quality, poetic mood, poetic rhyme.Understanding Cao and Zhang, this aspect cannot be ignored.

The poem says: A preface to the generous family, don't count on chickens and worms. Mingyi opened the sect to see the sincere song, and the light and wind are indistinguishable from the moon. Scholars, poets and writers, three long and beautiful newspapers. Ten and a half years of "Dream of Red Mansions", it is difficult to understand the famous mink, which is painful.