Theme of the work
Zhang Xiaoxian told all kinds of love stories that are constantly staged in this city, showing the emotional waves, and made his own unique interpretation of love: "Love is drinking poisoned wine with a smile". In Zhang Xiaoxian's novels, the protagonists pursue love and despair by drinking poisoned wine with a smile, and show their different feelings about urban love in this process of happiness and pain.
The characters in Zhang Xiaoxian's novels believe in the real existence of love and the purity of true love, so they pursue love and are willing to drink the "poisoned wine" of love. Zhang Xiaoxian believed in and pursued love, which was an important part of life. He even thinks that "love is self-improvement and self-improvement", which means that love has risen to the same height as life. Understanding love means understanding life and perfecting oneself, which gives the meaning of love life.
In order to elevate love to the same level as life, Zhang Xiaoxian tells readers in her novels that love is an important part of life, and life without love is incomplete. Therefore, the theme of pursuing love has been emphasized in her works, and almost all the characters in her novels are pursuing their own love.
Women in Zhang Xiaoxian's novels are persistent in their pursuit of love, because they have their own careers and are financially independent, so they don't have to rely on men to live. China's traditional patriarchal ideology hindered the development of women's individuality, personality and independent space. Modern women in Zhang Xiaoxian's novels, like men, have the desire and ability to think independently about the value of individual life, and no longer rely on men and marriage to survive like women in Zhang Ailing's novels and Xibao in Yi Shu's novels. ?
Describing the pursuit of love and disappointment in love is almost one of the common themes in most love novels, especially in Zhang Xiaoxian's works. For example, the woman in the bread tree rhymes moderately, thinking that love is the whole of life and falling in love with the gifted scholar Lin, who has always been inarticulate. Lin's derailment again and again made his heart hurt again and again. The quarrel and breakup between two people can never erase the love in each other's hearts. They can't forget each other after breaking up. When the misunderstandings were eliminated one by one, the two made up again. In the love with Lin, Cheng Yun suffered setbacks and disappointments, but what she longed for was Lin's love. Even though she was betrayed, she still believed in love and pursued it. On the road of love, you can't always get what you want. Pain and happiness are intertwined. In the face of disappointment, women in the new era still choose to believe in love, indulge in love and enjoy the happiness and pain brought by love. Perhaps the frustration in love will be more unforgettable than the frustration in love, but women in the new era believe that this will be a feeling of life and self-growth.