From Daily Life Narrative Eileen Chang, Wang Anyi's Novel

Daily life is the essence of life. The two female writers, Ailing Zhang and Anyi Wang who spanned a half century based on the daily life to describe the story. It was the eternal meaning that they told all kinds of men and women in daily life, deconstructed the great value of history and politics by the value of daily life in their novels.Firstly, The essay probed into why could Ailing Zhang and Anyi Wang choose this visual angle to tell the story coincidently. In brief, their life experience kept them away from furious, revolutionary, grand, heroic and monastic literature narration; but they were enamoured of the literature narration which is full of rich flavour of life, human feeling, eternal, detailed and folk spirit because of their life interests and literature experience.Ailing Zhang and Anyi Wang all revealed the daily life that was more essential and forever continuous behind the different idea of history culture and social life by their own texts, which made their novels have high comparability. However, you would find that theirs mood color and spirit direction were very different at the back of the external comparability if you savoured their novels carefully. Ailing Zhang put her life experience to life nothingness and the cognition of ugly human nature into her novel because of her lost sense to family and her experience in Hongkong war, which made her story of man and woman ,detail description have tragic color and her worldly novel became a bleak legend. Different from Ailing Zhang, Anyi Wang understood the life of common people, her description of trifles had a kind of warm and full flavour of life. She not only had refined careful study to daily life and interests of slight mood, but also had sincere admiration for striving in ordinary life, and then sympathy and mercy for tragic ending of common life fortune, which made her works have a kind of keynote of warm feelings and human nature. Because of this difference, their novels conveyed different spirit direction to readers, Ailing Zhang's novel let us see through the darkness of life and human nature, reconsiderd in our sigh and tremble, while Anyi Wang's novel guided us into a world filled with warm feelings, people gained a spiritual power. The two spirit direction were necessary for people lived a common life in their spirit world, people not only could see through the ugly life, but also couldn't lose the hope for life. It was very important value for Ailing Zhang and Anyi Wang to tell the story by daily life.