Zhang Ailing And Xiao Hong Desolation Imagery

Zhang Ailing and Xiao Hong are both famous female writers in modern schools of Chinese literature. The former lived in the modernized city from her childhood, the latter lived in the unenlightened backward village, different living environment determines their different writing targets. One is good at describing the love and marriage of the declining aristocrat in China's southern cities; the other is good at portraying the real life of the lower strata in China's northern villagers. Though having some difference in their writing's contents, they have many similarities on the use of imagery. This is because under the common culture the People who belong to the same nation will find similar sustenance in the appreciation of the beautiful and the imagery for the same scenery(almost at the same age period Zhang Ailing and Xiao Hong separately recite poems under their fathers and grandfathers'education), for a long time, these sceneries can accumulate the fixed emotion with national culture tradition and particular symbol meaning. During their writing they often conveys the determination and lofty ideals by means of these same objective sceneries and then affects readers. Because there exists the characteristics which share the same shape and structure between objective sceneries and the People's spirit, when conveying the determination and lofty ideals, they will place the fixed thought and emotion on some scenery, objective sceneries can be turned into the writer emotion's revelation. As we all know, moon, flower and sun are typical imageries in the China's traditional literature, they will naturally become the common imagery in their works. For the same imagery, they also express different implications and construct different moods of their literary works. Just Zhu Guangqian says,'changing emotion is changing imagery, changing imagery is changing state'. Indeed, since they express different emotions, when using these imageries, there exists different connotation and state.Obviously, whatever for environment's description or for characterization, both Zhang Ailing and Xiao Hong shows ingenuity on constructing profound imagery. Among many imageries, either moon, flower or sun, has constructed the desolated colours. Therefore, from the point of their works'general style Zhang Ailing is desolate, Xiao Hong is lonely, the style of desolation and lonesome outstandingly depicts the uses of imagery. Under their typical imageries such as moon, flower, sun, through comparison and analysis, the article delineates its particular literature value and aesthetics value.