Some books are destined to be extraordinary, it will firmly grasp your heart, and even change your life.
"White Deer Plain" is such a book, the plot ups and downs are gripping, creating a protagonist with a distinct personality. Bai Jiaxuan, who is upright and benevolent, Lu Zilin, who is treacherous and cunning, Mr. Zhu, who is brave and strategic, Tian Xiao'e, who pursues freedom, and so on.
The first time Lao Gu saw "White Deer Plain", he was deeply attracted by the first sentence of its opening paragraph:
"Bai Jiaxuan later became proud of marrying seven women in his lifetime."
At first, you may not understand this sentence, why is it arrogant? What happened to marry a woman in a seven-room room? After reading a few chapters, you will understand that Bai Jiaxuan continued to marry women when he was young, almost lost his family property, and even then he still spared no effort to marry women.
Because women are a necessity in his life.
Many people also wonder, why would Chen Zhongzhong create such a story? Bailuyuan is indeed a place name, and Chen Zhongzhong returned here to create a realistic masterpiece through the shadow of this place! Through his visits and consultations with the county chronicles, Mr. Chen Zhongzhong had a very profound understanding of the Bailuyuan area, especially when he saw that there were more than twenty volumes of county chronicles, and there were four or five volumes about "virgin women and martyrs", which was both surprising and puzzling. It was under this circumstance that the image of Tian Xiao'e came up in Chen Zhongzhong's mind.
Bai Jiaxuan shook his head slightly, and couldn't help but shed tears when he turned around.
This is the last sentence of the novel, and it is the essence of the whole book.
The Bai family and the Lu family had been fighting all their lives, and Bai Jiaxuan looked at Lu Zilin, who had gone crazy, remembered the use of means to deceive the land, and fell into deep self-blame.
"White Deer Plain" begins with Bai Jiaxuan's heroism and ends with Lu Zilin's evil death, and Chen Zhongzhong's pen is one after another distinct characters that are worth reading repeatedly.
The dust of the White Deer Plain is too thick, and in the turbulent history of China in the 20th century, thousands of years of patriarchy are as hard as the loess soil under the feet, and the vicissitudes are resolutely self-conscious.
The loess of the White Deer Plain was too heavy, and finally crushed the back of the Guanzhong people, and thousands of years of perseverance faded with the floating world, and only the hoarse Qin cavity pulsated with the ancient earth.
In this life, I did not read the White Deer Plain, and the Haoshou Poor Scripture was also in vain
Chen Zhongzhong returned to the countryside and locked himself in the ancestral house, in order to complete a book that can be placed in a coffin and used as a pillow after death, his "White Deer Plain" is about the past that happened in that land, a distinct character, in fact, there are prototypes, in the rural rental house, Chen Zhongzhong wrote for 4 years!
On 25 January 1991, Chen Zhongzhong drew the last punctuation mark for "White Deer Plain".
On a calm day, Chen Zhongzhong received a letter that was different from the previous letters, this letter was a thin one, from "People's Literature", and at the moment of receiving the letter, Chen Zhongzhong was excited, because according to experience, the thick envelopes were rejected, and this one was different.
In 1992, "White Deer Plain" was first published in the "Contemporary" magazine sponsored by the People's Literature Publishing House, and in June 1993, the People's Literature Publishing House published a single edition of "White Deer Plain".
Since then, "White Deer Plain" has become famous, and Chen Zhongzhong, a writer from Shaanxi, could not even squeeze in with first-class writers, but he completed Mo Yan's wild hopes in family history novels!
"White Deer Plain" may be the best family history novel in contemporary China, and it is also fully qualified to set up its own monument in literary history.
The small part of "White Deer Plain" is about the ups and downs of the people on the White Deer Plain, but the big part is about the deep suffering of the Chinese nation. After reading this book, I can't help but sigh and sigh, cover up and think twice, think about the long river of time, and think about the fingers; second, the people are not suffering, and they are all happy; second, the country is not in trouble, and the war will be stopped from now on.
"White Deer Plain" has been praised by many researchers as an epic, when Mo Yan first read "White Deer Plain", when he was brewing his "Fat Buttocks", he was well aware of the status of family history novels in Chinese culture, but when he read "White Deer Plain", he was stunned.
The famous scholar Fan once called "White Deer Plain" "a generation of strange books, Fang Zhi Ouxi, although Balzac and Standal, did not give up lightly."
Back to the original northwest land, feel the grace and resentment in that yellow land, there is black humor, there is magic realism, and its eternal foothold is in the people's lives!
Every character has his own destiny, and an era will always have an end. People in the present will also end from the stage, and the drama of life with long love and hate, sadness and joy, whether good or bad, will eventually turn into the dust of history.
"White Deer Plain" tells the story of an era, the story of that land.