Zhang Ailing has three hatreds in her life. This is what she mentioned in "A Nightmare in Red Mansions": "First, I hate that shad are prickly, second, I hate that begonias are fragrant, and third, I hate that the Dream of Red Mansions is not over yet."

The word "hate" here follows the ancient meaning and means "regret".

Anchovy has been one of the "Three Delicacies of the Yangtze River" since ancient times - the other two delicacies are saury and pufferfish, which have always been river delicacies.

Although the anchovy tastes fresh, it has a lot of spines, which scares many people. It is said that Jiangnan gourmets are good at cooking the anchovies. They simmer the anchovies over a slow fire overnight, remove the bones with a fishnet, and cook the noodles with the fish soup. It is extremely delicious.

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It's a pity that this river fish is on the verge of extinction. In the 1970s, it was still available for fishing, and it only cost a few yuan or ten yuan per catty. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, due to overfishing, adults were scarce, and the price has risen to 400 yuan per catty. Now it is even more expensive.

It's hard to buy for two thousand yuan.

Zhang Ailing, who grew up in a noble family, has eaten many kinds of fish and also eaten shad many times, so she can sigh that "shad is spiny".

This is the style of China's old aristocrats who "never tire of fine food and fine food".

Although crabapple is also a famous flower, it is not as graceful and luxurious as peony, and its tenacity is not as strong as plum blossom. However, its bright red and pure color has won praises from great poets since ancient times.

Su Shi's "Begonia Poetry" "The land of Jiangcheng is covered with miasma and vegetation, and only the famous flowers are bitter and lonely. A beautiful smile among the bamboo fences, and the mountains of peaches and plums are always vulgar." Begonia is compared to a beautiful woman who is lonely. Although she is living in a foreign land, she still maintains her integrity.

Beautiful and bright.

?It can be seen that Begonia is a flower with a high standard of beauty, and Zhang Ailing’s aesthetic taste is also a flower with a high standard of beauty.

The only regret is that crabapples have color and form but no fragrance. No wonder "begonias have no fragrance" has become her hatred.

"Dream of Red Mansions" can be called the pinnacle of Chinese classical literature. Unfortunately, the last thirty or forty chapters have been lost due to various reasons.

There are so many sequels, but in the end they all end with nothing more than a sequel.

The incompleteness of "Dream of Red Mansions" is the "hate" of many readers, but when this "hate" reaches Zhang Ailing's heart, it will be unforgettable and heartbreaking.

This shows that a real literary creator should first be a high-level supporter.

Extended information: Zhang Ailing (1920.9.30-1995.9) is a modern Chinese female writer. Her original name is Zhang Yong, her pen name is Liang Jing, her ancestral home is Fengrun, Hebei, and she was born in Shanghai.

He started writing novels at the age of 7, and began publishing works in school magazines and magazines at the age of 12.

From 1943 to 1944, he wrote and published novels such as "Agarwood Chips: The First Incense", "Agarwood Chips - The Second Incense", "Jasmine Pieces", "Love in a Fallen City", and "Red Roses and White Roses".

In 1955, Eileen Chang settled in the United States and wrote many English novels, but only one was published.

After 1969, he mainly engaged in the research of classical novels and authored a collection of red studies, "A Nightmare in Red Mansions".

He died in Los Angeles, USA, in September 1995 at the age of 75.