Original title: Focus on the south plains foraging white deer
In his later years, Chen Zhongzhong was on the banks of his hometown of Bahe. Photo by Xing Xiaoli
In 2019, "White Deer Plain" was selected into the "New China 70 Years and 70 Novels Collection".
Chen Zhongzhong's former residence under the northern slope of Bailuyuan. Photo by Xing Xiaoli
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the famous Contemporary Chinese writer Chen Zhongzhong (1942-2016). Chen Zhongzhong's monumental work "White Deer Plain", which wrote the local social changes in the Guanzhong Plain, is listed in the classics of contemporary Chinese literature, and the "White Deer Plain" located on the outskirts of Xi'an is also well known to the world because of this book. "There is a white deer on the white deer plain, and there is no Chen faithful in the world." On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Chen Zhongzhong's birth, go to Bailuyuan and relive "Chen Zhongzhong of Bailuyuan and Chen Zhongzhong of Bailuyuan".
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Out of Xi'an City to the east, encounter the Xun River from the Qinling Mountains and flowing north. Along the Xun River to the north, the BaHe River will come from east to west. Chen Zhongzhong's novel "White Deer Plain" calls the Bahe River a nourishing water, the Xunhe River as a runhe river, and the moist two waters surround a plain from the northeast and the west on three sides, that is, the White Deer Plain. The White Deer is originally condescending, looking west to Chang'an. Geology believes that this original is a loess plateau formed over hundreds of millions of years. Bi Yuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty and the governor of Shaanxi, described the name of the White Deer Plain in the "Guanzhong Shengzhi Tuzhi", quoting the "Book of Three Qins" as saying: "The King of Zhou Ping moved east, and there were white deer swimming in this plain, which was named after it. ”
After the death of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, some people saw white deer on the white deer plain. When there was no white deer on the White Deer Plain, there was no way to check. At least from the end of the Qing Dynasty recorded in the "White Deer Plain" to the present, there is no record of the white deer on the White Deer Plain.
In the summer of 1992, Chen Zhongzhong had already finished writing "White Deer Plain", and he was full of emotions and filled in a poem "Xiao Chongshan Creative Feelings":
Spring comes and goes. When the bald pen is pulled down, the peach is red. Alone and silent. But I wanted to cry, but my nose didn't burst into tears.
Just for fame and fortune? How to bear these four years, tormented love. Gaze at the white deer in the Southern Plains. Green is endless, like a yo yo yo yo.
Chen Zhongzhong finished writing "White Deer Plain", "looking at the south plains to find white deer", the result was "like smelling yo yo-yo", but he did not see the white deer.
In July 2022, one evening, I drove west to Bailuyuan, turned down the north slope of Bailuyuan, and arrived at Xijiang Village. At the edge of the village is Chen Zhongzhong's former residence, Chen Zhongzhong always called this place "Ancestral Old House" before his death, and now there is a sign standing in front of the door of this "Ancestral Old House": Chen Zhongzhong's Former Residence. I stood outside the door, surrounded by green trees, and the former residence was still the same as it used to be, the old way I was familiar with it. It's just that the gates are locked.
This courtyard, which Chen Zhongzhong called "ancestral old house" and is also known as "Chen Zhongzhong's old house" today, is now quietly hidden in the shade of a large tree. I knew that behind the yard was the north slope of the White Deer Plain. Somewhere on the north slope is Chen Zhongzhong's cemetery. A little piece of land. The cemetery is simple, with a pine tree and a black tombstone with the inscription "Tomb of Chen Zhongzhi".
In the spring of 1986, Chen Zhongzhong lived in the old mansion of Xijiang Village, and in the preparation stage for the creation of "White Deer Plain", he sought the help of the villagers and personally built a new house on the ground of the old house of his ancestral home. I have been to this new house or new courtyard many times, and it is very clear not to go in: the yard leans on the north slope of The White Deer Plain, sitting south and facing north, facing the gushing river to the north. The yard pattern is: gatehouse, front courtyard, front room three, middle courtyard, planted with small trees and flowers, three back rooms, back courtyard, behind the courtyard is the north slope of the White Deer Plain, the bottom of the slope, there was a small cave chiseled in the summer, you can cool inside in the summer. On the afternoon of July 23, 2001, it was in this cave that Chen Zhongzhong negotiated with Zhao An, chairman of Xi'an Guangzhong Film and Television Co., Ltd., and Zhao Jun, general manager, and signed a contract for the copyright of the adaptation of the TV series "White Deer Plain".
The new house in his hometown was built, and Chen Zhongzhong made the right one of the three rooms in the back room, about ten square meters, into his study. This study was the place where Chen Zhongzhong finished writing "White Deer Plain" at the end of 1992 and lived back in the city, and it stored the books and periodicals he had bought and collected for decades. This study has a total of three two-door bookcases, two of which are slightly wider and of the same style, with patterned glass sliding doors on the upper side, which are divided into three layers inside, and wooden sliding doors on the lower side; The other is narrower, with a wooden framed transparent glass handle door on the top, divided into four layers inside, and a wooden sliding door on the bottom. At that time, I took pictures of all of Chen Zhongzhong's books here. His collection roughly has a classification, such as Chinese literature and foreign literature, but in general, it is not very carefully classified and stored, and it seems to be scattered. Judging from the books and periodicals in the collection, there are many books and few publications. Books are mainly literary books, and most of the literary books are foreign literary works.
Two years ago, I visited this study with friends such as Li Jianjun of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the old appearance is still the same. A few days ago, I met Mr. Wang Pengcheng, a professor of modern and contemporary Chinese literature at Northwest University, who said that he had visited this study room once in recent years, and accidentally saw that some writers and scholars were scattered in the desk drawer of the study to Chen Zhongzhong. It seems that Chen Zhongzhong's former residence, especially his study, is still preserved.
When the new house was built, Chen Zhongzhong also made a painting of dark stones on the stone walls along the back porch of the front house, one side is the mountain, the other side is the water and petrel, which is considered a landscape painting, and it is set on the wall. This was the first and only time in Chen Zhongzhong's life.
This is now the former residence of Chen Zhongzhong. It is a typical style of the small courtyard in the countryside of Guanzhong, Shaanxi in the 1980s. Of course, it also has a strong cultural atmosphere, belonging to the cultural atmosphere of Chen Zhongzhong, a writer who has lived in the rural grassroots for a long time.
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According to my observation and understanding, Chen Zhongzhong's outlook on life generally belongs to the practical category, he is less romantic and does not like retreats. For example, he is not keen on travel. However, he has specifically visited the former homes or hometowns of three writers.
The former residence of Lu Xun in Shaoxing, the former residence of Mao Dun in Wuzhen, the cemetery of Shen Congwen in the phoenix of Xiangxi, and Chen Zhongzhong have all been there. Go, all for the writer of his choice.
From the end of May to the beginning of June 2000, Chen Zhongzhong was invited to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, to attend the Fifth Annual Conference of the Chinese Novel Society. After the meeting, he made a special trip to Shaoxing with Li Jianjun and others. In Shaoxing, he visited Lu Xun's former residence and Lu Xun Museum. He said: "Everyone who makes literature should come here to worship their ancestors. We have come to return to the ancestors. He was puzzled by some remarks that vilified or slandered Lu Xun, saying: "These people don't want to think about it, and they have denied Lu Xun, so what is left in the history of modern literature that cannot be denied?" The problem is that up to now, no one has reached the height of Lu Xun, and no one has dug into the root causes and problems of our nation as deeply as Lu Xun did. It can be seen that in Chen Zhongzhong's understanding of Lu Xun, he attaches importance to Lu Xun's dissection of the root causes and problems of national diseases.
In late October 2002, Chen Zhongzhong visited Wuzhen and Mao Dun's former residence in Wuzhen, and then wrote the essay "In Wuzhen". In this essay, he affectionately recounted: "More than a thousand years of ancient towns or villages, whether in the south or north of China, in fact, will not cause too many surprises, as far as the Weihe River Plain where I live, the history of many villages can be traced back to before the Common Era, and it is speculated that the same is true in the south, and the history of the multiplication of this nation is too long." I came here from the distant Guanzhong, obviously not purely to visit an ancient town in Jiangnan, but because Mr. Mao Dun, one of the pioneers of modern Chinese literature, was born and raised here. This town is called Wuzhen. Mao Dun of Wuzhen and Wuzhen of Mao Dun have been haunting my emotional world for decades. Chen Zhongzhong recalls the scene when he was in high school: "Visiting the Dongxi River, my mind is always floating with Mr. And his works. On the way home from school on Saturday afternoons, I always choose the wide embankment along the Bahe River, which is difficult for even cyclists to touch, so I can safely read while walking. During that period, I concentrated on reading Mao Dun, "Midnight", "Eclipse", "Corrosion", "Polyamorous Relationship", and "Lin Jia Puzi" and other short stories. At that time, it was in the 'three-year difficulty' period, and the education authorities canceled physical education classes in secondary schools at the same time, but also canceled evening self-study and homework in various disciplines, with a very simple purpose, to preserve the limited calories of students due to lack of food, to put it bluntly, to save their lives. This gave me the best opportunity to read a novel. I can't remember the cause and circumstance, but I read almost all of Mr. Mao Dun's published works during this time. Lying in the dormitory, reading in the shade of the bahe river, reading all the way home on Saturday along the river embankment, as a middle school student who loves literature, there is no attempt to study and evaluate, but the feeling is enduring admiration. After more than forty years, I finally came to the ancient town in the south where this giant was born, and this town is called Wuzhen. ”
Chen Zhongzhong wrote about what he saw and felt when he visited Mao Dun's former residence, which was written in great detail, indicating that he observed it in detail and thought a lot. He talked about the influence of Mao Dun's vernacular novels on him, especially mentioning that during his visit, he "thought of the "Spring Silkworm" that I had once learned in the middle school textbook, and the painful face of the old Tongbao who was bankrupt due to sericulture in the text is still stored in his heart", and "realized the disillusionment and despair of the old Tongbao of the sericulture professional household", not mao Dun experienced in his own deep house compound, as a new literary writer, it is Mao Dun's "eyes and heart" "bet to". Countless withering old tongbaos went to the huts and courtyards of the old tongbaos." Therefore, "when I studied "Spring Silkworm", I did not feel that I was separated by the fact that Lao Tongbao was a silkworm farmer in the south", but felt that "it was no different from the experience of grain farmers, cotton farmers, and vegetable farmers in the Guanzhong area where I lived in that era." Chen Zhongzhong went on to say, "This feeling has always affected me now." As a result, he later "paid little attention to the small cultural color of one region." He realized that "one Confucian doctrine" has extensively influenced the same nation in the same historical process, and that it is rare to "find essential differences in psychological order and psychological structure in different regions of the north and the south."
From the end of May to the beginning of June 2005, Chen Zhongzhong participated in the Retracement of the Long March organized by the China Writers Association. He served as the leader of the first regiment of the Chinese Writers' Wind Collection Troupe. At the end of the trip, in order to commemorate Shen Congwen, Chen Zhongzhong and the first group specially chose to pass through the ancient city of Fenghuang in western Hunan Province. At that time, Shen Congwen walked out of the mountain along a piece of yuanshui from his hometown phoenix, "walking into the life school that could not graduate, and reading the big book that may not be understood." The members of the group took a boat along the Tuo River for a while, abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and climbed up the steps along the foothills of Tingtao Mountain to reach the Shen Congwen Cemetery. There is no grave in the cemetery, only a natural multicolored stone tombstone, and The front is engraved with Shen Congwen's handwriting: "According to my thinking, you can understand me; As I think about it, I can know people. The back of the stele was written by Shen Congwen's aunt Zhang Chonghe and wrote a joint book: "Do not fold and do not follow, the stars fight its text; Also mercy and let go, the naked son of his people. This is a summary and evaluation of Shen Congwen and his people. In the shade of a tree not far from the tombstone, there is a stone stele inscribed with an inscription written by the painter Huang Yongyu for his cousin Shen Congwen: "A soldier either died on the battlefield or returned to his hometown." In front of Shen Congwen's tomb, Chen Zhongzhong put on his glasses, took out his notebook, looked at it solemnly, and remembered it seriously. Whether from the regional characteristics of his hometown or from the style of his works, There is no similarity between Chen Zhongzhong from Guanzhong in Shaanxi Province and Shen Congwen who came out of the water town of Xiangxi, but Chen Zhongzhong admires Shen Congwen's personality, and the scenery of "Border City" also gives Chen Zhongzhong a wealth of feelings and imagination.
Chen Zhongzhong is a contemporary writer who mainly describes the countryside. Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Shen Congwen, the literary styles of the three are different or even completely different, but all three of them have written about the countryside, although the focus of Mao Dun's creation is not in the countryside, but his "rural trilogy" and other works, including "Spring Silkworm", can be regarded as vernacular novels in a broad sense, while Lu Xun and Shen Congwen, an important aspect of their literary creation is the vernacular novel. Therefore, in a certain sense, Lu Xun, Mao Dun and Shen Congwen are the masters and pioneers of modern Chinese vernacular literature. In this sense, the three of them should also be the "root" and "source" of Chen Zhongzhong's local creation, and are important reference writers for Chen Zhongzhong's local creation.
Chen Zhongzhong's visit to the hometown of Lu Xun, Mao Dun and Shen Congwen was more or less of a pilgrimage in a literary sense. This is the worship and respect of writers to writers, and it is also the learning and inheritance of writers to writers. Because of respect and inheritance, the value and idea of a certain literature will be passed on forever.
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Traditional China is a vernacular society, and sociologist Fei Xiaotong's "Native China" has made a profound exposition of China's vernacular society. Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain", now seems to be undoubtedly a novel of classic significance describing China's local society and history.
If the local world written by Lu Xun, Mao Dun, and Shen Congwen is the local society in the south, then the local world written by Chen Zhongzhong is the local society in the north. Lu Xun's half-city and half-village S City, half-town and half-village Lu Town and closed Weizhuang, because there are curved waterways and black canopy boats, have the characteristics of Jiangnan. Mao Dun's "spring silkworm" is also a representative image of Jiangnan. Shen Congwen's "Xiangxi World" and "Border City", the clear streams and ferries, are naturally also southern. Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain" world is a thick and flat loess plateau, with ditches in between, but it is a transition between the plain and the plain, not the bottomless gully in the lofty mountains. The "White Deer Plain" world also has The Zishui and Runhe Rivers, as well as the WeiHe River, but these waters and rivers have not been used for navigation for a long time, and the Weihe River also has ferry boats, and although the Zishui and Runhe Rivers have ferries, there are many ferries, and people carry people across the river. In the twenty-fourth chapter of "White Deer Plain", it is written that on the Runhe River, "on the way to the ancient city, a ferry port without a ferry was formed, which also created a profession of carrying people across the river", the communist Lu Zhaopeng, who was hunted by Bai Xiaowen of the Kuomintang County Security Force, escaped to the Runhe Ferry, and dressed up as a back river man who crossed the river with his back to the river. The traffic on the White Deer Plain, written in "White Deer Plain", such as from the county seat of Zishui to the provincial capital of Xi'an, public transportation is a wooden wheeled car pulled by cattle, and only the rich and large families such as Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin travel is a wooden wheeled car pulled by a horse or mule. All of this fully embodies the world of "White Deer Plain", the local world of the Guanzhong Plain, which is different from the south of the water town, it is northern, and it is the north of the yellow land.
One side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people, the other side of the water and soil naturally has different cultures. Another major difference between the "White Deer Plain" world and other local societies is that it was in the land of "Gyeonggi" in ancient times. Xi'an was once the capital of the thirteen dynasties of the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. Chen Zhongzhong said that his hometown "Occupied most of the territory of historical Xianning County", "during the Han and Tang Dynasties Xianning was the land of Gyeonggi, and then as the first yi in Guanzhong until the complete collapse of the feudal system", the feudal dynasty "created generations of loyal and courageous people around the palace wall, the so-called Jingmen face", therefore, the Baqiao area, that is, the ancient Xianning also included the part of the current Bailuyuan, "feudal culture feudal civilization and the rouge water washed feet of the imperial concubines were excreted to the land outside the palace wall, This land accepts both civilization and filth" (Chen Zhongzhong: "I Say Guanzhong People- Preface to the Integration of Folk Literature in Baqiao District"). To put Chen Zhongzhong's figurative expression in other words, that is, the traditional culture of this land is very deep. Therefore, Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain" world is not only a natural world in the north, but also a world of local literature with profound traditional culture.
From the perspective of vernacular literature, Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain" has its own world. Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Shen Congwen, etc., who came from a large family that was either in decline, or a well-off family, left their hometown very early and became students or foreign students, living in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Chen Zhongzhong was born in an authentic peasant family, born in Sichuan, grew up in Sichuan, relied on land to eat, although he also went to high school, but after graduation, he returned to his hometown to become a private teacher, became a rural grassroots cadre at the age of thirty, and although he became a professional writer at the age of forty, he lived in the countryside until he was fifty years old and wrote "White Deer Plain" before officially living in the city. Therefore, from the perspective of being familiar with rural society and understanding the peasant groups, Chen Zhongzhong has the thickness and depth of his life beyond ordinary people. Judging from the characteristics of their works, Lu Xun is the precursor and representative of the new culture and new ideas of May Fourth, and his vernacular novels, with a critical vision of the old culture, he is like a doctor, holding a scalpel, dissecting the lesions and roots of the old society and people, in a sense, this is the "disenchantment" of the traditional idyllic local culture imagination. Mao Dun, whose literary role is generally that of a city dweller, is to stand in the perspective of left-wing ideology and culture, revealing the decay of the countryside under the wrapping of capitalism. Shen Congwen came out of his hometown of Xiangxi, a "country man" running in Beijing (Beiping), Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Qingdao, Kunming and other cities, with complex emotions of both need and disgust for the city, as some scholars say, he "daytime lantern" like a "prophet", illuminating the city, high society and modernity, and thus carrying a "anti-modernity" tendency. He looked back at the world of the border city in western Hunan that had not been impacted by modernity, and wrote his own vernacular literary works, and his vernacular literature had the characteristics of "returning to charm". Later Zhao Shuli and Sun Li also wrote about the countryside, and their works even had the rich earthy smell of "yam egg" and the lotus fragrance and water vapor of "Lotus Pond". Later, Liu Qing and Haoran, the works they wrote about the countryside, the earthy atmosphere is still strong, and the rural characters and life scenes are also rich and vivid, but their main purpose is to write about "a new society" and "a new person". Comparatively speaking, Chen Zhongzhong's long "White Deer Plain" cannot be said to be a latecomer, but it is true that in writing about local society, due to learning and drawing on the experience of literary predecessors, "looking for their own sentences" in the various paths opened up by the predecessors, and finally becoming their own scenery.
Chen Zhongzhong's local society is more inclined to the authenticity of the local society, especially the local society in guanzhong in the north. This is a traditional super stable local social structure composed of landlords, parents and patriarchs Bai Jiaxuan, xiancao, xiancao, landlord Lu Zilin, Changgong Lusan, Mr. Zhu, who inherits poetry and educates people, and Confucian benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, and loyalty. However, the storm of the times came, and the "ultra-stable" structure that lasted for thousands of years was in turmoil. From this point of view, "White Deer Plain" is not only a panoramic map of local society, but also a history of changes in local structure and traditional society. "White Deer Plain" records and, to a certain extent, restores the various historical forms of mature local society formed by the mainland for thousands of years in the form of literature, and this work still retains the true and profound memory of the nation about the countryside to a considerable extent.
For thousands of years, the countryside has been the root of the lives of the vast majority of Chinese, and the local society has also been the home of the Chinese. In the wave of modernization and urbanization, the traditional local society has gradually disappeared and reshaped. Li Bai has a poem: "In this nocturne, the willow is broken, and who can't afford to be in the garden." Du Fu's poem said: "Cong Ju opened his tears twice, and the lonely boat was tied to the heart of the old garden." Cen Shanshi said: "The road to the east of the old garden is long, and the sleeves of the dragon bell do not dry up." Literature, especially fiction, because it has the function of artistic reproduction, people with "hometown heart" and "hometown feeling" always seek the mottled relics of history in reality, and are willing to find a path to the "old garden" in the novel and relive the "old garden feeling". Just as to understand the life of aristocratic families in the feudal or imperial era, you need to read "Dream of the Red Chamber", if you want to seek the texture of traditional local social life, you must read "White Deer Plain".
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"Floating clouds and wandering, sunset and old feelings." Those who are keen on cultural roots and those who like to trace history always have to look for a place where they can pin their "intentions" and "feelings" and settle down in nostalgia. A few years after the publication of the novel "White Deer Plain", because of the great influence of this book, the white deer was originally changed back to its original name - when king Zhou Ping moved east, the name was originally white deer plain, because the Song Dynasty Di Qing was stationed in this original garrison, and later generations also called this original Di Zhai yuan - "White Deer Plain" came out, changed back to the original name and erected a monument on the original top to zhi. More than ten years after the advent of "White Deer Plain", the White Deer Barn Scenic Area based on the White Deer Barn in "White Deer Plain" was built in the north of White Deer Plain, trying to reproduce the old scenery on the White Deer Plain with real scenes, with more than 10 million annual tourists at its peak, and its annual tourist volume in recent years was also 6 or 7 million. Bailuyuan Film and Television City was also built in the same period, located in the original slope ditch south of Bailuyuan, with a grand scale and is a provincial cultural tourism project. It takes the local society in "White Deer Plain" as the basic construction concept, there is a County town of Zishui County, there are various neighborhoods with folk characteristics in the city, there is White Deer Village, there are archways (archways), ancestral halls, opera stages in the village, there are Bai Jiaxuan House and Lu Zilin House, and the village gate at the mouth of the village. The facilities and residential houses in Bailu Village are mostly relocated by the actual scenes of the filming of "White Deer Plain", and a considerable part of these real scenes are historical objects in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Plain, so parks such as Bailu Village and Zishui County Town have a sense of returning to the old times. The park also performs a number of characters and stories in "White Deer Plain" in the form of live-action performances, such as "Erhu Shou Chang'an" and "Black Baby Rendition". It is understood that the Number of Tourists in Bailuyuan Film and Television City was 3.46 million in 2017 and 1.08 million in 2021.
Earlier, in 2005, some scholars in Shaanxi province set up the White Deer Academy together with Chen Zhongzhong himself, and Chen Zhongzhong was elected as the dean for life. When Chen Zhongzhong was founded, he said with emotion, "The White Deer has returned to the White Deer Plain." According to expert research, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were about 7,500 colleges built on the mainland, and about 1,000 of these traditional colleges are still preserved today, and nearly 2,000 modern colleges have been built since the 1980s. As a White Deer Academy that was moved from the novel "White Deer Plain" to the real life, it inherited and innovated, gathered books and compiled books, lectured in forums, academic research, collected teachers and students, celebrities from all walks of life, and cultural exchanges from all walks of life, and has also been quite influential in the past 17 years, and was elected as the vice president unit when the China Academy Society was established. In 2006, Bailu Academy cooperated with Xi'an Siyuan College to build the Chen Zhongzhong Literature Museum, displaying Chen Zhongzhong's literary path and creative achievements, and also becoming a scenery on the Bailu Plain, and now it has become a member unit of the China Museum Association and a member unit of the Literature Professional Committee of the Association of Museums, and visitors and researchers from home and abroad flock to it.
At this dusk, I wandered alone in front of Chen Zhongzhong's former residence, remembering Chen Zhongzhong's words: "Mao Dun of Wuzhen and Wuzhen of Mao Dun" "Haunted my emotional world for decades." I think that at some point, maybe, no, there will be another writer or some writers, as well as tourists from different places, who come to Xi'an, to Baqiao, to Xijiang Village, to see Chen Zhongzhong's former residence, to say that "Chen Zhongqiao of Baqiao and Baqiao of Chen Zhongzhong" have been haunting his emotional world for many years, and then go to Bailuyuan to see "Chen Zhongzhong of Bailuyuan and Chen Zhongzhong of Bailuyuan".
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Chen Zhongzhong's birth, Chen Zhongzhong's hometown of Baqiao District of Xi'an City held a meeting related to Chen Zhongzhong. At the meeting, someone said that several white deer had been found somewhere in the woodland on the White Deer Plain.
It is said to be a wild white deer.
In 2792, after King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi (770 BC), another white deer swam on the White Deer Plain.
(Author: Xing Xiaoli, executive vice president of Shaanxi Bailu Academy, author of "Chen Zhongzhong Biography" and "Chen Zhongzhong Painting Biography" and so on.) (Xing Xiaoli)