Zhang Ailing s prose,quite different from her novels full of desolation and bleakness,is filled with her eager devotion to secular life,townpeople s life and material life.

There is a kind of artistic beauty coming from the mixture of feelings, interests and reasons in Zhang Ailing s proses; the beauty is reflected in her description of secular life, her analysis of human nature and the conveying of homeland awareness; and the beauty exists in the use of the literary style of arguing essays and the use of lively, epigramtic languages.

Starting with Zhang Ailing s initial prose The Genius Dream,this paper attempts to analyze the inherent features of two types of her prose—a treasure of and love for secular life against the background of tragic consciousness.

Zhang Ailing, with women s perceptual psychology and sharp literature talent, depicted the nihility of life of common customs of city in the change of times.

Ever since the 1980s, with the gradual formati on of pluralism in literature, works reflecting common worldly existence created several generations of Chinese writers, especially a group of young writers, wh ose mode of describing the wor.