Library

"Ancient Rhyme" was a British bestseller in the 1950s and a Taiwanese bestseller in the 1990s. The autobiographical novel "Ancient Rhyme" made Ling Shuhua the first Chinese female writer to conquer Europe. After reading "Auspicious Rhyme", you can look back on the sentimentality and sweetness of your childhood with the little girl, and explore the prosperous scene of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when officials and officials had their wives and concubines in groups and VIPs were everywhere. Ling Shuhua - Xu Zhimo's most trusted woman, a talented woman whom Tagore praised endlessly. Read "Old Things in the South of the City" to understand the streets and alleys of old Beijing, and read "Ancient Rhythm" to understand the deep residences and courtyards of old Beijing. "However, in terms of creative talents, Bing Xin, Lu Yin, Feng Yuanjun, Chen Hengzhe, Su Xuelin and others are not as good as Ling Shuhua."

"Red Holly" is a collection of short stories by Ling Shuhua. Most of the books are stories written from the perspective of children, focusing on the lives and interesting things of children in the old days. These are rich in content, sincere in emotion, and humorous and fresh in language. They show the innocence, simplicity and kindness of children from different angles. Ling Shuhua entered the world of children and used children's vision and psychological thoughts to create a colorful world for children. Other works describe the living conditions of adults and the social reality at that time, reflecting the corruption of adults' lives and many unreasonable social realities.

It depicts the life experience, observations and feelings of a little girl who grew up in an official family in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In this complex old-style literati family, there is a majestic father; the beautiful, intelligent and sad fifth mother; the jealous and quarrelsome third and sixth mothers; and my own virtuous and uncontroversial mother; more than a dozen brothers and sisters; distant and near relatives, aunts, etc. And countless servants and servants. She has been used to seeing aunts and wives fighting for favor and status since she was a child. The book also tells readers that Shuhua followed the gardener Lao Zhou and went out to visit Longfu Temple, buy flower fertilizer, and see the gardener friend who once managed the Summer Palace for the Empress Dowager Cixi; when Gu Hongming, who was proficient in six languages, came to visit, Shuhua stood aside and watched his father and him admiring bamboo, arguing about state affairs, and waiting to eat cloud cakes; when he was young, he studied in Japan and experienced the joy and sadness of the brilliant cherry blossoms in bloom.

"Women" focuses on showing readers the moral loss and human degradation of women under the background of the abnormal combination of traditional culture and urban civilization. Among them, "Xiao Liu" is about the decline of a new woman who has received a new education. The old ladies in "Car Delivery" expose their vanity and parasitism in fashionable modern communication. Ling Shuhua unabashedly showed their ugliness, unbearable inner feelings, and their boring souls, creating flesh-and-blood female images. She not only wrote about the lives of women in the changing era of the old and the new, but also engraved the historical mark of a generation of women.

The novel collection "Flower Temple" consists of 17 short stories. The theme of his creation can be roughly divided into three aspects: First, it reflects the bleak life of girls in the boudoir. It depicts the inner world of wealthy ladies, expresses the loss and confusion of old-fashioned girls who cannot control their destiny, and satirizes and sympathizes with their tragic fate; secondly, it reveals the vulgar life of the wife class. It exposes the parasitic life of old-style wives and examines and criticizes their numb and ugly souls; third, it shows the contradictory life of new-style wives. It expresses the pain and helplessness of new women trying to break the constraints of traditional gender roles, affirming and highlighting the independent female consciousness.

This book is a collection of essays based on overseas historical events and reviews of literary and artistic poetry. Among them, the article "Love Mountain Lu Mengying" mainly describes the mountains. Ling Shuhua loves mountains. She said that she has been closer to mountains than others in her life. In her writings, mountains do have a unique flavor. To her, they are a confidant, an elder, a playmate, or a lover.