《朱门》是林语堂写于上世纪50年代的长篇小说,延续了《京华烟云》的基本叙事模式:以家族颓败和红颜传奇为主线,书写了一座城在历史风云动荡中的持守与变迁。这部小说聚焦的是有着三千多年建城史,一千多年建都史的文化老城——西安。与北京的帝都贵气和上海的摩登洋气相比,如今的西安给人的感觉可能是一种黄沙 The “Zhumen” is a novel written by Lin Yutang in the 1950s. It continues the basic narrative pattern of “Jinghua Yanyun”: taking the decadent family and the legend of the original as the main line, it depicts the holding and changing of a city in the turmoil of history. The novel focuses on Xi’an, a cultural city with more than 3,000 years of history and more than 1,000 years of capital history. Compared with Beijing’s imperial capital and the modern atmosphere in Shanghai, the present feeling of Xi’an may be a kind of yellow sand