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Thoughts on reading the Golden Lock

Born in the declining aristocracy, Zhang Ailing describes the old and young of the declining class with her unique social experience and psychological feelings. She was conscious of the inevitable tragic fate of that class, and analyzed it mercilessly. The story of the golden lock is not only her early success, but also an influential novella in the 1940s. Diary 500 words

The story of the golden lock, written in 1943, describes the spiritual changes of Cao Qiqiao, a woman from a small merchant family. Qiqiao was the wife of the disabled. She wanted to love but couldn't love. She almost spent 30 years in the Jiang family like a madman. Under the oppression of money and lust, her character was distorted and her behavior became surly. It not only destroyed her son's marriage, but also caused her daughter-in-law to be tortured to death and broke up her daughter's love. For 30 years, she was in the yoke of gold. She used the heavy flail horn to kill several people, and the one who didn't die also died.

In this book, Zhang Ailing shows the basic meaning of modern society's gender psychology to an unprecedented extent. She didn't have any avant-garde ideas in her creation era, but it was shocking that she opened the veil of tenderness in the world of both sexes. The protagonist was once called the only hero in her novel world by the author. She has the prudence and tact of a madman. In order to revenge the society that once hurt her, she uses the most morbid way. Her flat and sharp throat is cut on all sides like a razor blade.

The author pushes the modern Chinese psychoanalytic novels to the extreme and carves out the abnormal psychology of the characters. The sharp and spicy words produce a soul stirring artistic effect. The story of the golden lock also draws on the experience of the old national novels in its narrative style, which obviously reflects that novel techniques like a dream of Red Mansions have been used by the author to express the modern urban life in the mixed places of China and foreign countries.

Fu Lei also pointed out in the novel on Zhang Ailing: "if love can not be satisfied in one person, it needs three or four people's happiness and life to compensate.". Cao Qiqiao became the prisoner of lust and the executioner on behalf of lust. Cao Qiqiao didn't get happiness, so he went to destroy his children's happiness. There is no solemn and stirring, only desolation. Solemn and stirring is a kind of completion, and desolation is a kind of enlightenment. What is the use of enlightenment for this family? Home is the harbor of the soul, and in Cao Qiqiao's home, there is no trace of warmth, not only can't give the closest people spiritual comfort, but it is a terrible big black net, suffocating the people in this home. Every family member is the object of her venting the grievances she has suffered in the Jiang family for so many years.

In the torrent of transformation, what is engulfed is more than a Cao Qiqiao. Although it has become the past, we have more or less the shadow of Cao Qiqiao. Maybe it's just that we are no longer locked in gold and split people with gold lock.