Literature knowledge, about Zhang Ailing's The Golden Lock

2025-02-28 00:29

Zhang Ailing's novel, The Story of the Golden Lock, was a work that described the social contradictions and the fate of women in Shanghai in the 1930s. It was regarded as a classic work of modern Chinese novels. The following is some literary knowledge about this work: The Story of the Golden Lock is Zhang Ailing's representative work and her most famous novel. The novel was set in Shanghai in the 1930s. It described the story of a rich, beautiful and intelligent woman, Xianglin Sao, her lover, her wife, and her lover's wife. It showed the contradictions and conflicts in social class, family, marriage, love, and so on in Shanghai at that time. The Golden Lock was considered a complex and profound work. The novel involved many characters and many emotional relationships. The topics of love, marriage, family, power, desire, etc. all required the reader to have a certain degree of thinking and interpretation ability. 3. The use of language in The Story of the Golden Lock is also its characteristic. Zhang Ailing used many language techniques such as metaphor, symbolism and contrast to make the novel concise, vivid and vivid, and at the same time, make the readers feel deep emotions and thoughts. The plot of The Story of the Golden Lock is compact and the plot is full of ups and downs. Through reading the novel, readers can understand the social background and people's living conditions in Shanghai at that time. Zhang Ailing is an important figure in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her novels have been widely read and studied, which has had an important impact on the development of modern Chinese literature.