She once wrote in 1939 the essay "Dream of Genius" and said:
At the end of 20021,the film "The First Furnace Incense" caused a heated discussion. The various colors in the novel can explain why the film was criticized. I really can't say that fans are too harsh.
The description of various "colors" in this novel can show the final ending of Ge in a few paragraphs.
1. Ge Weilong is in her aunt's garden.
The garden is surrounded by a barren hill, which looks like a "golden" baking tray, with gorgeous English roses, pink azaleas with yellow and shrimp red, fiery wild azaleas burning down the hillside, deep blue sea and white boats.
Then Zhang Ailing turned to write: Not only strong colors have an unreal sense of vertigo, but also various discordant backgrounds are forcibly mixed together to create a fantastic realm.
This impenetrable color description, in which ordinary Shanghai woman Ge is not dizzy, is very strange.
Then look at the colors outside the house: blue glazed tiles, green glass windows, chicken oil yellow and red borders, red bricks, the heritage of early architecture in the southern United States.
Interior colors: jade, ivory, bamboo, oriental colors.
The nondescript colors of the East and the West are intertwined: absurd, clever and funny.
2. Aunt is back.
Black all over. There is a green net hanging on the brim of a black straw hat, and there is an emerald spider with big nails ... it is terrible to read here.
Aunt in Ge's eyes: her face is white and greasy, her lips are purple and black, and her mulberry is red.
Decoration on the piano: cactus in bud, green leaves, looking around like a green snake, red branches twisted like a letter. Wei Long made a cold shiver.
In the study: white powder wall, azurite lacquer cloth, gold lacquer case, big HongLing chair cushion, red brocade silk curtain, cloisonne square bottle, and the flowers are pale white.
My aunt is sitting in a chair: a gold-painted chair, brocade slippers, Ying Ge green buns and a banana fan.
When Wei Long left: the sun was setting, behind the mountain, red and purple were alternating, gold and green were interlaced, green was dissolved, and the moon was shining high. Looking back, it was a yellow windowsill with red edges and green glass windows reflecting the color of the sea. The towering white house is covered with green glazed tiles, which is a bit like the ancient imperial tomb.
At this point, I can already guess Ge's fate, and I didn't say anything more. All the plots are presented in color, including the emotions of the characters.
Green snake, spider, imperial tomb ... Ge Weilong walked into the grave step by step and was about to be swallowed up.
Wei Long woke up, too. I walked into this haunted world with my eyes open, she thought. If I am possessed, who should I blame?
Sometimes I think that Ge Weilong in the book has to stay in Hong Kong alone in order to study. Her parents love her too. She is a middle-class family, so she can still study in Shanghai. When my aunt was a fourth aunt, her father thought it was natural not to let her daughter degenerate.
Ge Weilong, on the other hand, has a big idea and has to stay in Hong Kong to study. His father is a celebrity and doesn't take it seriously, and his mother doesn't care. He was just deceived by his daughter's lies.
As God wills, there is the story of this first incense burner.
Ge Weilong lives in his aunt's house.
The house upstairs is as small as a boat and is pushed by the sound waves downstairs. Half-old red gauze wall lamp, pearl curtain, milky fog outside the window. ...
Gorgeous clothes: brocade, tulle, silk, satin, cloak, pajamas, bathrobe, evening dress, cocktail party afternoon dress, dinner dress, all kinds of colors.
Ge used to wear bamboo student clothes ... She tried them on one by one and whispered to herself, Look at them.
On the way back from dinner with aunt.
Cherry red glass tiles, dark mountains, dark wind, white and spicy rain, white hydrangea and green hydrangea. .....
Other scattered places are all kinds of colors: finely divided red, blue and purple flowers, big bowl of red flowers and orange-red flowers.
5. Ge He is at the temple fair.
Blue and purple ear bottles, lush golden velvet, amber durian cream, red ear beads, goose yellow sachets, black silver crosses ... Beyond this lamp, people and goods, there is a sad sky and sea, boundless desolation and boundless terror. So is her future.
Geweilong of various colors was gradually swallowed up. ...
In addition, there are many reduplications in the novel:
Soluble green, faint green, furry, thick and heavy, cool and cloudy, dark and dark, dark and gloomy, dark and white, spicy and soft, soluble and warm, drunk and empty, fluttering, blue and cloudy, meat chirping, blood dripping, purple and water.
I have to admire, they are all the same square characters. Zhang Ailing's ability to control words is absolutely unique.