20世纪三四十年代,上海被日军占领沦为“孤岛”期间,许多文化界名流或撤离或隐居,上海文艺园空旷的土壤上,先后出现了两朵别致的花卉——苏青和张爱玲。她们迅速走红,成为上海文坛最负盛名的女作家。她们系好友,却又性格不同,文风迥异。如果以花喻人,那么,苏青是一朵杜鹃花,红艳热烈,豪放明朗热爱交际,朋友很多;张爱玲则是梅花,冷漠倨傲,孤僻苍凉,喜欢独处,朋友很少。苏青的文字通俗清浅,一目了然,是单纯的白描。无论才华和见识,抑或文字的功力和技巧,苏青无疑都逊色于张爱玲,然而这些都不妨碍张爱玲欣赏苏青。张爱玲算得是眼高于顶的人了,但对苏青却毫不吝惜自己的赞语:“苏青的文字做到了一种‘天涯若比邻’的广大亲切,唤醒了古往今来无所不在的妻性和母性的回忆,实在是伟大的。低估了苏青文章的价值,就是低估了现代的文化水准。如果必须把女作者分作一档来评论的话,那么,把我同冰心、白薇她们来比较,我实在不能引以为荣,只有和苏青相提并论,我是甘心情愿的。作家实斋在他的回忆文章中这样描述他当年见过的苏青:我想像中的苏青,是爽直、豪放和饶有男子汉气概。我眼前见到的却是一个烫着卷发、身着时装的现代佳人,然而我们闭上眼睛,只听她的高言傥论,又活似一个辩才无碍的男子汉了。” During the 1930s and 1940s, when Shanghai was reduced to an “isolated island” by the Japanese occupation, many celebrities from the cultural world either evacuated or lived in seclusion. On the open soil of the Shanghai Arts Park, two unique flowers, namely, Su Qing and Eileen Chang. They quickly became popular and became the most famous female writers in the Shanghai literary world. They are friends, but different characters, different style of writing. If the flower metaphor, then, Su Qing is a rhododendron, warm red, bold and bright love communication, a lot of friends; Zhang Ailing is plum, indifferent proud, solitary desolate, like solitude, few friends. The text of the Soviet Union Qingqing plain, at a glance, is a simple white description. Regardless of talent and knowledge, or writing skills and skills, Su Qing is no doubt inferior to Eileen Chang, but these do not prevent Zhang Ailing appreciate Su Qing. Eileen Chang was considered above the top of the eye, but Su Qing did not begrudge his own compliment: “Su Qing’s writing to do a kind of ’End of the World Zambia’ vast cordiality, awakening the ancient and modern ubiquitous wife and Memories of motherhood, it is great. Underestimated the value of Su Qing’s article is underestimated the modern standard of culture .If you have to be divided into a file to comment on the female writer, then, with me Bingxin, Bai Wei them to compare , I really can not be proud of, and only comparable to the Soviet Union, I was willing to write .In his memoir, writer Zhai described his so-called Su Qing that year: I think the Soviet Union is straight, Bold And have a manhood.I saw in front of it is a hot curly hair, dressed in modern fashion lady, but we close your eyes, just listen to her gossip, and live like a man of no resistance . ”