In 1993, Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain", which he had written for 5 years, was confirmed to be published, and the editor asked him: "Do you want the manuscript fee or royalties?" Chen Zhongzhong, who was honest and honest, did not understand the difference and said casually: "If you say you can do it, you can get it!" I didn't expect that this stupid sentence at that time actually made him earn 4.55 million!
At the beginning, Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" and Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital" both spread all over the country in a flash and caused a huge sensation in the literary world. After Chen Zhongzhong saw it, his heart was deeply shaken, and he felt that no matter how he said in this life, he had to write an excellent work worth bringing into the coffin.
Therefore, Chen Zhongzhong resolutely dropped everything and returned to the ancestral home in Shaanxi. Here, he did not rush to start writing "White Deer Plain", but first spent two years to go to various places to conduct in-depth investigations and consult relevant historical materials. In order to make "White Deer Plain" more rigorous, he thought it was worth the effort to make it more rigorous.
After the previous series of preparations, Chen Zhongzhong locked himself in a hut and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the creation. In this way, one classic plot after another jumped out of his pen. Finally, the masterpiece that cost him six years of hard work, "White Deer Plain", drew the last end.
Chen Zhongzhong himself was very satisfied, when his wife asked him: "If "White Deer Plain" cannot be published, what should you do?" After so many years of hard work, are you not afraid of being wasted? Chen Zhongzhong was very calm, he said: "If "White Deer Plain" cannot be published, then I will go to raise chickens and spend this life plainly!" ”
Before the publication of this masterpiece, the editor asked Chen Zhongzhong: "Do you want to take the manuscript fee, or do you want to take the royalties?" Chen Zhongzhong did not know much about the difference between the two, and did not want to think about it, so he asked the editor to help him make a decision, and the editor said: "Then take the royalties!" ”
This decision of the editor made Chen Zhongzhong's pockets bulge, and his royalty income reached 4.55 million at that time, and he also occupied the 13th place in the writer's rich list. These situations were something that Chen Zhongzhong had never thought about before, of course, by now, the value of the "White Deer Plain" he had written was already more than ten times higher than it had been at the beginning!
As soon as "White Deer Plain" was published, the entire literary world was greatly shocked, countless readers rushed to buy it, and bookstores even sold out of stock. The popularity of this excellent work of "White Deer Plain" has also derived many other forms, such as dramas, TV series, movies and so on. Even now, the popularity of "White Deer Plain" is still undiminished.
In this work, the most heart-wrenching thing is the tragic role of Tian Xiao'e. Originally, she was a talented daughter, born beautiful and knowledgeable, but her biological father actually sold her for money, and the other party was still a 70-year-old, white-haired old man.
However, the life of being a concubine is not moist, and the special habits of the other party make Tian Xiao'e feel pain, but she is not willing to spend her life like this, she wants to resist. So, she came together with the family's long-time worker Heiwa in private, and eventually the two eloped back to Bailuyuan.
At that time, Tian Xiao'e's heart was full of beautiful expectations for the future, but the villagers poured basin after basin of cold water on her, and used all kinds of cold words to insult her for not keeping the way of women. Tian Xiao'e can endure these grievances, and she feels that as long as she and Heiwa live a good life. But then Heiwa had an accident and had to flee, and Tian Xiao'e's life changed completely.
The men in the village all had illusions about her and had long been salivating, and Lu Zilin, Bai Xiaowen and others had all been on her kang. It is precisely because of these things that Tian Xiao'e is not welcomed by the villagers. The daughters-in-law of these men, as soon as they saw her, humiliated her with all kinds of incomprehensible words.
Finally, on a dark night, Gonglu San took a dart and completely ended Tian Xiao'e's life. In the end, she was unable to live her ideal life and died alone. And after her death, everyone also collapsed the cave where she lived as a burial, and then gave up.
The fate of Hetian Xiao'e is equally tragic, and there is Also Leng Qiuyue. She never received her husband's favor and stayed alone in the empty house for more than ten years, but one day her father-in-law drank too much wine and ran to her house. Since then, she has become insane, and everyone will talk about the scandal of that day.
Leng Qiuyue's father was a well-known doctor in the original, and the locals respected him especially, rich and poor, and he himself attached great importance to fame. Mr. Leng, who was fierce, finally decided to personally inject medicine into his daughter so that she could no longer speak. After experiencing a series of blows, Leng Qiuyue did not eat food, lost weight day by day, and finally left this world.
In Chen Zhongzhong's pen, everyone is so real and so vivid. They came out of the text, let everyone recall that period of time, and deeply reflect on the changes of the times. For example, tian xiao'e and Leng Qiuyue, these women not only represent them, but also epitomize the female image in the white deer plain, and even in the entire era.
"White Deer Plain" is undoubtedly a great work, but there are some large-scale depictions in it that many people cannot accept. Chen Zhongzhong is very sorry for this, these large-scale depictions are actually the key elements that expose human nature. But in order to publish it smoothly, he also had to endure the pain of deleting more than 40,000 words.
Fortunately, with the development of the times, everyone's thinking has continued to progress, and there has been more tolerance for literary works, and the uncut version of "White Deer Plain" can finally be published again, and it has been listed by the Ministry of Education as a required reading series for college students. This epic classic is worth each of us to savor!
It is no exaggeration to say that the uncut version is the original "White Deer Plain", which can take you to appreciate the desolate and tragic song belonging to that era, a magnificent and tragic national epic. Friends who are interested in the uncut version of "White Deer Plain", click [Take a Look] below to buy and read!
White Deer Plain 1993 edition of Chen Zhongzhong's works
