Abstract: The declining aristocrat clan and luxurious social background in Shanghai brought up both Zhang Ailing’s aristocrat temperament and civilian temperament.This paper,on the one hand,analyzes the amalgamation of these two temperaments from the perspectives of the author’s life experience and her image of a declining aristocrat,and exposes the aesthetic distance between aristocrat temperament and civilian temperament from the perspectives of the author’s life attitude,and the delicate taste and language style in her works on the other hand.These two temperaments are amalgamated and not totally separated from each other.

Key words: Zhang Ailing, aristocrat temperament, civilian temperament, amalgamation, separation