What is the theme of Chen's White Deer Plain?

"Bailuyuan" takes Shangbailu Village in Bailuyuan, Guanzhong area, Shaanxi Province as a microcosm, and shows the historical changes of more than half a century from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1970s and 1980s by telling the grievances between grandparents and grandchildren of Bailu family.

In the early 1980s, due to the special political environment, there appeared a creative trend of "reflective literature", which gradually became a universal literary spirit in the 1980s. This spirit influenced the long-form creation in the 1990s, and many long-form creations in the 1990s are involuntarily moving closer to this spirit.

This also makes the long-form creation in this period reach a new height in the reflection on national history and culture. It is under this literary trend of thought that Chen Meng-sheng had the desire to create White Deer Plain and completed this epic work which can represent this new height of reflection.

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White Deer Plain is a very representative drama in recent years. Taking Bailu Village, which is known as "Renyi Village" in Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi Province as the background, this paper tells the story of grievances between the grandparents and grandchildren of Bailu and Lu.

The two most important characters in the play are Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, who are also the soul figures of the Bai family and the Lu family respectively. Their personalities are completely different. Bai Jiaxuan is loyal and upright, while Lu Zilin is sleek and sophisticated. In this way, two people who seem unable to live in harmony interpret the wonderful story of Bailuyuan.

White Deer Plain is Chen's masterpiece. Since he wrote this book, he has no regrets all his life. Therefore, before writing, he did a lot of preparatory work, read a lot of records in ancient county annals books, and made a lot of field trips.

The first page of the book quotes Balzac's famous saying: Novel is the secret history of a nation. This is the hundred-year history of going to the countryside in the Kansai Plain: Bailuyuan. From the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of New China, and even during the Cultural Revolution, some things were described.

Write dozens of classic characters in Bailuyuan. Under the drastic social changes, where is everyone's fate going? Bai Jiaxuan, a kind-hearted patriarch who has been loyal and honest all his life; Lu Zilin, a jealous and restless village convention; Lu San, a long-term worker who is loyal to pedantry; Zhu, a wise and almost sacred embodiment of traditional culture.

In fact, the disputes over interests are all floating clouds. Facing foreign enemies with the same interests, it is a fine tradition of our Chinese nation to unite with the outside world. Even if there are different personalities and positions, even if there is controversy, it is in line with the principle that Bailuyuan can live forever, "Bailuyuan does not leave the deer, and the deer does not leave the white".

Each character has a distinctive personality and is particularly classic. After reading the book, I feel that these characters are around. You can feel the personality characteristics and ways of doing things of those characters. History has never gone far, but it is always by your side.

This is the essence of this book, which depicts human nature. Reading this book is a feeling of spiritual baptism, which will reflect on the traditional culture of China.

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