Discussion on the Influence of "A Dream of Red Mansions" on Zhang Ling's "The Affair of Flowers"

The creation of the famous Chinese writer Zhang Ling is deeply influenced by the Chinese classic novel "A Dream of Red Mansions". Zhang Ling's novel "The Affair of Flowers" and Cao Xueqin's "A Dream of Red Mansions" have many aspects of intertextualities. "The Affair of Flowers" follows the image of jade and flower in "A Dream of Red Mansions". The beauty is like a flower, and the love is like jade makes "The Affair of Flowers" become a poetic novel. The corresponding arrangement of the two female main characters in "The Affair of Flowers", Hua Yuyue and Hua Yunyun, Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu, is especially evident in the efforts of writer Zhang Ling to create two equally wonderful female images. The key wedding ceremony of "The Affair of Flowers" is very similar to that of Baochai for the marriage plot. It writes the incompetence of beautiful women's love and marriage, and conveys the deep sigh of destiny. "The Affair of Flowers" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" are strikingly consistent in the decline of the big family, showing the sigh of the family's prosperity and decline. Zhang Ling's absorption of the artistic nutrition of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a major feature of his creative style, and it is also the secret of her success.