Though living in two different periods, Zhang Ailing and Zhang Yueran have some similarities in terms of style. The former’s novels have long been considered as a kind of literarure that is full of strong senses of colors. She has a special like for red and has depicted a lot of red colors throughout her works. One of the best new writers, Zhang Yueran, being in the habit of using red colors to express her senses of colors,. Some of her favorite red words are the same to the ones that are relatively used by Zhang Ailing. From the perspective of a reader, these colors used by them appear to own a lot of similarities or similar psychologies or reasons. They embody different psychological features represented by red colors in China.

Same basic red-color words

Zhang Ailing is using red colors at all times, trying to show a pictorical world to her readers. She has colorful and splendid words, such as scarlet, pink, peach, maroon,  crimson,etc. at her fingertips and write with facility, creating her novels as pictures. Once finishing reading Zhang Yueran’s works, you will feel that the whole colors in them are black and red. It seems that in this sophisticated world these words can convey her works’ connotation to a great extent. Pink, tangerine, deep red, scarlet, crimson, maroon, purplish red and so on can be seen everywhere in her novels. Both of them are adept at using colors.