A year after the death of Mr. Chen Zhongzhong, the TV series version of "White Deer Plain" was finally put on the TV screen and entered the field of vision of thousands of households. This epic drama, which took 16 years of preparation and 10 years of project approval, took a long time and cost a lot of money, has been widely praised since it was broadcast, and its word-of-mouth and ratings have soared. Viewers who have watched the TV series are deeply impressed by the white deer that frequently appears in the play, so in "White Deer Plain", who is the incarnation of the "White Deer Elf" in Mr. Chen Zhongzhong's mind?
If you want to figure out who is the incarnation of the "White Deer Elf", you must first figure out the true meaning of the "White Deer Elf", Mr. Chen Zhongzhong once explained the "White Deer", she is the elf bred by Confucianism, in other words, the symbol of truth, goodness and beauty, is the incarnation of the White Deer Elf.
Bai Ling: If you open your eyes, you won't close them again
Bai Ling is the "White Deer Elf" in "White Deer Plain", which is more recognized by most people. In the pen of Mr. Chen Zhongzhong, Bai Ling does represent the most ideal female image in the historical background at that time, his life is relatively short, but it entrusts the author's ideals.
From the time she was born, she behaved differently from other children. When she was born, a lark was barking on the paulownia tree in the courtyard, with her tail cocking, so she was born as a "Lingling Baby". Bai Ling is the only girl in the Bai family, and she is so smart and beautiful, she is the pearl of her father Bai Jiaxuan. In the drama version of "White Deer Plain", Bai Ling was taken away by the white wolf as soon as she was born, but in the end, the white wolf did not eat her, and was probably "frightened" by her silver bell-like laughter. When I was older, like boys every day, I liked to run crazy in the village, and when it was time to bind my feet, I cried and resisted every time, and finally Bai Jiaxuan was distressed, so Bai Ling became the first girl in Bailu Yuan who did not bind her feet.
Bai Ling grew up in a family with a strong patriarchal culture, but she was not affected by it. She was naturally beautiful, beautiful and intelligent, and she didn't like to be a female celebrity, so she entered the school like her brothers. Mr. Private School was surprised to find that she was extremely intelligent, had the ability to remember, and in a short period of time, her calligraphy level surpassed that of her brothers, and later even surpassed Mr. Xu. After a big quarrel with her family and went to the new-style school in the provincial capital, Bai Ling's thinking underwent a qualitative change, and her character of unwilling to be restrained and resolutely resisting since she was a child was seamlessly connected with revolutionary ideas. With the gradual strengthening of ideals and beliefs, Bai Ling has also become more mature. The break between Bai Ling and his father Bai Jiaxuan symbolized the complete break between the revolution and the old forces.
Although Bai Ling died early due to the revolution, the final outcome is shocking and painful, but Bai Ling is a central image throughout the whole **, beautiful and kind, lively and intelligent, honest and resolute, bold and strong, these beautiful characters are like a beautiful white deer, worthy of the author's "white deer elf".
Mr. Zhu: I am confident that I have nothing to do in my life, and I dare to face the sky after death
Mr. Zhu is the only perfect person in the entire Bailu Plain written by Chen Zhongzhong, a spiritual leader on the Bailu Plain, and the mentor of the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan. Whenever there is something important, Bai Jiaxuan will go to Mr. Zhu for advice, and Mr. Zhu's opinion is undoubtedly correct every time.
Mr. Zhu has been brilliant since he was a child, at the age of 16, he was admitted to the county examination, and at the age of 22, he went to the provincial examination and won the first place in the Wenju with exquisite words. The following year, when he went to Beijing to take the examination, his father died of illness, and the governor of Shaanxi, Fang Sheng, loved his talent and admired his filial piety. Governor Fang Sheng entrusted him with important tasks many times, but he was rejected by Mr. Zhu and lived in Bailu Academy by himself.
Mr. Zhu has done several earth-shattering things, all of which are good deeds that benefit one party, go down in history, and are above board. Mr. Zhu acted as a lobbyist for Governor Zhang, and with just one mouth and one sentence, he relieved the 200,000 Qing soldiers of Governor Fang, who had counterattacked from Gansu. There is a song sung by Wang Wei "Sending Yuan Er Envoy Anxi": "The rain in Weicheng is light and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow-colored. Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west. Why the author uses this poem as the "key" to solve the problem can be seen as a praise and affirmation of traditional Confucian culture.
Bai Jiaxuan met the owner of a pharmacy in the provincial capital by chance, and in order to repay his kindness, he gave Bai Jiaxuan a packet of poppy seeds as a reward, and boiled it into tobacco and sent it to the pharmacy as required. Later, I learned that it was not used for medicinal purposes at all, but as a guise for profiteering, but the consequence was that for a while, the cultivation of opium poppies in Bailuyuan became a trend. Everyone does have money, but various problems have also arisen. After Mr. Zhu came back, he didn't say a word, and asked Bai Jiaxuan to cover the plaque of "Ploughing and Reading Heirlooms" inscribed by himself on the gatehouse with a black cloth, and then set up two sets of pear utensils, and took Bai Jiaxuan to destroy his own poppy field, which shook the Quartet in an instant, and within ten days, all the poppies in full bloom on the original were ploughed down, and it was a good story for a while.
Also, during the siege of Xi'an, Liu Zhenhua, the leader of the Zhensong army, came to visit Mr. Zhu, and Mr. Zhu did three things: put two big wolf dogs at the door to welcome guests;I made a pot of tofu stew to entertain guests;Told him a story. In the end, Liu Zhenhua went back and thought for a long time and chose to retreat. During the Great Famine, he was invited by the county magistrate to use his prestige to preside over the relief of the whole province.
Mr. Zhu's will: do not cover your face, do not use coffins, do not blow drummers, do not report to relatives and friends, do not receive any filial piety mourners, do not use brick hoop tombs, in short, do not extravagantly can, do not shout, and enter the earth as soon as possible. A traditional knowledge person can be respected and worshiped by villagers, officials, warlords, bandits and other people. In a sense, they respect the intellectual, and even more so the deep tradition that contains the value identity behind him. In ** "White Deer Plain", Chen Zhongzhong said through Bai Jiaxuan's mouth: "This person has left countless strange anecdotes in his life, all of which are good things for others, and he can't find a thing that harms others and benefits himself." "There will never be a gentleman like this in the world!"”
Perhaps, we can understand it this way, "White Deer Elf" is the sum of the shining points carried by Bai Ling and Mr. Zhu, and is a combination of these two characters, Bai Ling represents a new hope, and Mr. Zhu represents the essence of Confucian tradition.
In my mind, Bailuyuan is a pinnacle work in the past 70 years of New China, which has crushed all contemporary novels, and it is a masterpiece of Mr. Chen Zhongzhong's painstaking efforts and hard work. Mr. Chen once said that he would use it as a pillow after death, and he did it, and Bailuyuan will enter the history of Chinese literature and become an immortal masterpiece together with the three words Chen Zhongzhong. With the extension of time, a hundred years later, the literary, historical, and historiographical value of this immortal work will be more and more demonstrated.
Mr. Chen Zhongzhong began to prepare in 1986, collected and sorted out all kinds of historical materials in the Guanzhong area, as well as folk customs, folk conditions, production and living materials, read a large number of county records and historical documents, consulted archives, and made a large number of notes.
In this game, it is the heirs of the two families who set off an unprecedented "wind and snow" on the cusp. They have the wisdom and resilience left behind by generations of ancestors who started from scratch and climbed and rolled, waving their flags and shouting in the great changes in the countryside.
Some of them were carried forward by the torrent of the times, overthrowing the old system in the blue wisps of the road, showing the iron backbone of the heroic sons and daughters;Some stick to old habits, support traditions, and break blood for profitSome are confused from the world, lost in their hearts under the shackles of deformed stereotypes, and show the evil of human nature.
The splendid rural landscape paintings, the vivid human nature, and all the truthfulness and cruelty of history are slowly spread out on this White Deer Plain.
Now that Mr. Chen Zhongzhong has passed away for many years, and our greatest memory of him is to read this work and trace the history in order to better point to the future.
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