White dogs are food, and black dogs are disaster. What do you mean?

"Black dogs steal food, white dogs are evil" means that this person has done bad things, but let irrelevant people take the blame and be punished. Metaphor punishes the wrong object.

Source: Ouyang Shan's "Sanjiaxiang" IV: "Since then, Guo Biaoyue has broken up, making money and goods together, boldly stealing; Zhou Bing is more and more afraid, but the black dog steals food, the white dog is a disaster, and the shopkeeper is more and more suspicious of him. "

In the eyes of critics of the novel, it is the genre painting of life that dilutes the breath of revolution and whitewashes the cruel and fierce reality of class struggle. Even the critics who defend these two novels will point out that this kind of description restrains the situation and appearance of "overall" class struggle, and the writer's "criticism" of Zhou Bing's weakness is not enough, and his description of his relationship with many women is "not high in style".

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Of course, the author of "Three Alleys" wants to describe it carefully, and also understands that "gifted scholars and beautiful women" and their love should not occupy too much space in modern revolutionary novels, nor should they have an independent nature-they can only exist as positive or negative proof of "revolution". The delicate twists and turns of love entanglements, coupled with the artistic experience provided by the "tradition" of China's romantic novels, have obviously become more attractive factors in writing, which fascinates the author.

The result of specific description sometimes sets off the dryness and simplicity of the described "revolution". The hesitation in establishing the object of expression, narrative style and language style leads to the internal contradiction in the structure of the novel (especially Sanjiaxiang).

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