Good "wild" people: respect! The rebellious soul who rebelled against feudal patriarchy in the chaotic world

Zhang Ailing's works depict the contemporary life of women, as well as the embarrassment and desolation under the oppression of the traditional patriarchal system.

Thank you to the good "wild" people in history for creating a new vision and continent for future generations, so that we can enjoy fresh free air and the courage to move towards the future!

There are many freedom fighters in history who do not follow the rules and traditions, and these good "wild" people have worked hard to break the shackles of the framework, rewrite their own destiny, and create a new history for everyone.

9/30 is the birthday of a generation of talented women Zhang Ailing, and let us walk back to Zhang Ailing's legendary life!

The young family is out of harmony and inherits the rebellious unruliness of his mother

Her maternal grandfather was Zhang Ailing of Li Hongzhang, who was from a prominent background, while her father was a decadent and stupid boy who smoked opium all day and did not do his job.

Her mother could not stand her husband's dereliction of duty, and when Zhang Ailing was still young, she chose to rebel against this feudal marriage and leave home to travel the world. Such a brave and uninhibited style also runs in Zhang Ailing's blood.

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In the chaotic world, he became famous in one fell swoop and caused a sensation in Shanghai during the fall period

The period of study coincided with World War II, and Zhang Ailing, who was going to study in Britain, stayed in Hong Kong to complete her studies.

In 1941, when the Pacific War broke out and the Japanese army captured Hong Kong and the Hong Kong was shut down, Zhang Ailing took refuge in Shanghai in 1942 and published several novels set in Hong Kong, such as "Love in the Allure" and "Agarwood Crumbs and First Incense", which became famous in the Shanghai literary circles.

Picture | stills from "The First Incense"

To love is to love strongly, and to break is to break crisply

In 1944, Zhang Ailing met the writer Hu Lancheng, and later secretly married in Shanghai, with no testimony and blessings, only a marriage certificate: "Hu Lancheng Zhang Ailing signed a lifelong and married couple, willing to make the years quiet and the present world stable." 」

They knew each other very well that an unfettered woman like Zhang Ailing did not need the law.

After that, the war split them, the amorous Hu Lancheng had a new love in other places, Zhang Ailing knew, but also coldly and decisively cut off the love thread, handsomely attached the manuscript fee as a breakup fee in the parting letter, and mentioned in the letter: "You don't come to look for me, even if you write a letter, I will not read it." Love and lose.

Rebelling against traditional patriarchy, the forerunner of Chinese women's thought

Zhang Ailing's works, although born in the era when feminism was not yet formed, she was forward-looking about war and revolution, gender and system.

Her delicate brushstrokes describe many of the female body, the shape of women's lives, or the resistance to the objectification of women, as well as the embarrassment and desolation of the different genders under the oppression of the traditional patriarchal system.