It can be said that "White Deer Plain" depicts the fate of the Chinese family system with the struggle for clan power as the warp and sexual activity as the weft (the two often use each other as backgrounds and use each other). The power struggle between Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin is the most open and secret contradiction in the original. Bai Jiaxuan had the upper hand at the beginning, gaining the aura of Bailu and successfully planning the land exchange incident. In fact, it is not just from this, but the more fundamental reason can be traced back to the ancestors. The surnames Bai and Lu are a big clan, and when dividing the surname, it is stipulated that the surname "Bai" is the longest, which is an innate advantage and is the prototype of Bai Jiaxuan's power.
Bai Jiaxuan used the power in his hands to always attack Lu Zilin skillfully without a trace. Doesn't he know Lu Zilin's lewdness? He knows very well, and has long predicted: Lu Zilin will end up as a pig and a dog. As a patriarch, why did he ignore Lu Zilin's lewd behavior and punish Xiao'e, Goudan, and the like mercilessly? Reading the text carefully, it is not difficult for us to find that Bai Jiaxuan deliberately let Lu Zilin go, and Lu Zilin has a sentence that profoundly indicates the meaning of the two people, "(After Xiao'e was stabbed) You were hurt by the stabbing brush, I know." But you don't know that Bai Jiaxuan only used thirty percent of your strength to fix you, and seventy percent of your strength was aimed at me......People take your jiriko as my face and slap it! ”
Indeed, Bai Jiaxuan's purpose is to make Lu Zilin indulge and let him fall in anger. He wants to destroy the self-confidence in Lu Zilin's heart and make him lose his qualification to be a man in the village, so that Lu Zilin will lose the strength to compete with Bai Jiaxuan.
Chen Zhongzhong said that his prototype came from an old patriarch with a straight waist and great majesty, and those women who breastfed their children at the door of the house quickly drilled into the house as soon as they saw him, and Bai Jiaxuan was almost the embodiment of dignity, justice and reason in the book. When he dealt with his son's sexual fouls, he won the support and trust of the villagers at the same time. Bai Jiaxuan could hardly stand his son's rebellion, when he heard Xiaowen's ** voice in Xiao'e's cellar, he screamed and fell to the ground, he was not only knocked down by this sudden shame, but more importantly, Bai Xiaowen's blow to his moral beliefs.
What Bai Jiaxuan values most in his life is that "face", without "face", he has no power and dignity, and no pillar of survival, "This son lost his face, lost his heart, lived up to his expectations of him, and he was far more discouraged and unhappy for him than the catastrophe ...... when his waist was broken by bandits."”
From the perspective of power, his sexual punishment of Bai Xiaowen and Xiao'e is based on several considerations: first, he must maintain the fairness of his power, the villagers are watching him, and more importantly, Lu Zilin is paying attention to his behavior, if Bai Jiaxuan shields his son, he will fall into the trap of the deer; Secondly, Bai Xiaowen's ** behavior made him lose his qualification to be the patriarch in the future, and he wanted to confirm the position of the patriarch of his second son Xiaowu by punishing Xiaowen, which is quite important for maintaining the power of the Bai family in the future, and it was deliberate for him to let Xiaowu stab his brother; There is also a psychological reason that Bai Jiaxuan is not aware of at all, and he pays far more attention to sex than other aspects.
As mentioned earlier in the article, Shiro has a natural aversion and nervousness to exuberant **, and he sees Hyowen's sexual indulgence as much more serious than any other mistake. Lu Zilin also grasped this point, so that Xiao'e lured Xiaowen to take the bait. It is not difficult for us to find that Bai Jiaxuan implemented violent rule on Bailuyuan, and used violent means to achieve the goal of "benevolence and righteousness" to govern the village, which is itself a paradox. In Bai Jiaxuan's eyes, everyone in the original is a network of knots under the clan power network, and this deviation between morality and the value needs of the subject is a tragedy of China's existential morality.
However, we should also realize that although Bai Jiaxuan has his own goals and objectives in the use of power, this does not mean that it is determined by Bai Jiaxuan's subjective consciousness, he is also constrained by the moral spirit he believes in, and this high-level rationality forms a layer of power to encircle Bai Jiaxuan and urge him to implement it in order to achieve its goals.
"White Deer Plain" is a long story created by writer Chen Zhongzhong**, which took Chen Zhongzhong six years to create and was first published in 1993. The ** takes Bailu Village, Bailu Yuan, Guanzhong District, Shaanxi Province as a microcosm, and shows the historical changes from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century for more than half a century by telling the grievances and disputes of the three generations of the two families surnamed Bai and Lu.
"White Deer Plain" is not just a book describing the secret history of this Chinese nation, why? The criticism of women in it also makes many people unbearable, it seems that in "White Deer Plain", only a woman like Bai Jiaxuan's daughter-in-law Wu Xiancao can achieve peace and happiness. Because she only looks forward to her husband in this life, she regards "obedience" as her own responsibility and criterion in life.
So he created a group of awakened women in "White Deer Plain", who were fearless and fearless in the battle against feudal etiquette, and were coerced by the times, leaving traces of blood.
To a certain extent, "White Deer Plain" reveals the difficulties of modern Chinese women in their quest for true independence and deep emancipation.
In this story, a woman should always be "wrong" and "bitter".
But "White Deer Plain" is indeed a rare good book that reflects the times at that time, otherwise it would not have won the Mao Dun Literature Award. If you only see the salient descriptions and ignore the deeper meanings, then you also lose the most precious thing.
Chen Zhongzhong also won the 4th Mao Dun Literature Award for "White Deer Plain". It can be said that "White Deer Plain" has achieved Chen Zhongzhong, and Chen Zhongzhong has also written about this Weihe Plain.
He seems to be revealing the history of the Chinese nation and the history it bears.
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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