The characters in the biographies in Lang Huan Anthology are Zhang Dai's relatives and close friends with foibles.Zhang Dai's biographies are characteristic of focusing on defective life segments and describing the characters in a sectional manner,praising friends and relatives for their anti-Qing braver-y,plainly narrating what the characters have seen in the third-person point of view,and emphasizing detail description.The narrative of characters with foibles reflects Zhang Dai's pursuit and practice of true na-ture,the integration of the tribute to ancestors and the reflection on worries,and the contradictory compro-mise between loyalty and the life and death choice.
Lang Huan AnthologyBiographyCharacter with foiblesNarrative artEmotional de-tail