What is the "village agreement" of Bailuyuan?

Township Covenant is actually a management department set up by the government of the Republic of China to manage village-level cadres. It is equivalent to the current towns and villages. In the original book, the right of rural convention is great, but in Bailuyuan TV series, Lu Zilin is the rural convention. This is a crime. Bet with the patriarch. Collaborate with the local ruffians and hooligans in the village to do evil. Township Covenant is actually a functional department set up to manage village-level cadres. But in the TV series "White Deer Plain", Bai Jiaxuan seems to be more mixed and more powerful than Lv Xiang. In fact, in Bailuyuan, Lu Zilin only secretly challenged Bai Jiaxuan. I've never been like a TV series, and I have nothing to say. Moreover, according to the feudal patriarchal clan system, Lu Zilin had no chance to be a patriarch. The rights of township conventions are much greater than those of clan chiefs, but in front of clan concepts. The township agreement should be managed by the patriarch.

In the shadow of the novel "White Deer Plain", we find that although the adaptation is still a little far from the original, it is difficult for TV dramas to make a difference, as everyone knows. Judging from the trend of the whole drama, it has its own clues and context, and it is still very sincere and conscientious. For example, in the tenth and eleventh episodes, we saw the long-lost "village appointment". So, here's the problem. What is a "rural convention"? Today, I'll tell you something about the "village convention" in White Deer Plain. Teacher Zhu in the TV series, after fulfilling his promise to the teacher in those years, returned to his original place, but he didn't want to leave in recent years. Many things have happened in the original place, opium cultivation has become the norm, and the villagers are addicted to gambling ... Mr. Zhu returned to his original position, and quietly dug up a few poppies in the original place at this booth.

In addition, more importantly, Mr. Zhu also wrote down the village rules and regulations he saw in recent years. After Bai Jiaxuan renovated the ancestral hall, he carved a stone to set the world straight ... So, what happened to the village rules and regulations in the novel?

When and by whom was "Village Covenant" written? After meeting Mr. Fang, Mr. Zhu's mentor in those days, he finally arrived in Ningxia, Gansu Province, where he was promoted to work and solved the crisis of 200,000 Qing troops besieging the city. When he returned to his original place, Bai Jiaxuan heard about his brother-in-law, and felt too risky. At the same time, he also talked about the original white wolf and so on.

Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help lamenting loudly that her brother-in-law's aunt's trip was too risky. After talking about the White Wolf, Bai Jiaxuan raised many questions. How can I live without an emperor? Do you still accept the imperial salary? Or according to the six grades of "the right time, the right place and the right people" determined by the Qing family, what is the person who cuts the braid? A woman with two big fat feet is not disgusting? Looking at Bai Jiaxuan's doubts, I even panicked, which also shows that although it has been "anyway", there are still many things that have not come anyway. To borrow Lu Xun's words, although the delisting has changed, the goods are still the same.

With so many questions about his wife and younger brother, Mr. Zhu-Mr. Zhu listened to his wife and younger brother complaining evenly, took out a neatly copied article from the drawer and handed it to Jia Xuan: "It's an external thing. It saves time and trouble to sort it out every day. Women's feet are born to walk, so it's good to put them down. Only how to live in the future is the biggest and most difficult. I have drafted a life rule. Do you think it is feasible? " Bai Jiaxuan took a look, and it was written by my brother-in-law ... What did the village appointment say? In the novel White Deer Plain, there is a detailed record of Zhu Jieshu's Village Covenant:

First, the German industry advises virtue, and it is necessary to do what is good. If you smell it, you must change it. You can cultivate yourself, repair your family, teach your children, respect your children, make friends, be honest and clean, ask people to save trouble, make mistakes, get together with many people, solve struggles, promote good and eliminate evil, pass official positions, and people who are promoted by many people feel good. It is said that stay at home, father and brother teach younger brother, stay with wives and concubines, make friends and teach children to obey.

Second, the negligence of the rules is too six: one is to argue after drinking, the other is to violate the metaphor, the third is disrespect, the fourth is disloyalty, and the fifth is to ruin six days with rumors. Break the contract four times: First, they don't convince each other for moral reasons; Second, the fault does not conform to the rules; Third, courtesy and righteousness are not complementary; Fourth, adversity does not sympathize with each other. Five major problems of not repairing: First, people who make friends are not limited to ordinary people, but fierce and invisible. If you swim with them day and night, you will become friends with them. If you have to, you won't return them. Second, you will be lazy in the game, that is, you will go in and out for no reason and never see anyone again. People who idle around and laugh too much, people who intentionally invade or bow their heads, that is to say, people who can't repair their careers and housework will die. Third, you won't be rude. Fifth, if you don't spend money and don't care about the existence of your family, you can't live in poverty, but if you don't make mistakes, you will be punished for all three crimes.

Third, the ceremony happened to intersect ... After Bai Jiaxuan brought back the township contract written by Mr. Zhu, Mr. Xu praised it as the way to cure the problem. Then Jia Xuan invited Lu Zilin and others to the ancestral temple to discuss. After reading the full text of the Village Covenant, Lu Zilin was filled with emotion: "If all the villagers in Bailu Village act according to the Village Covenant, it will really become a state of etiquette." The three men immediately discussed and came up with a plan to practice the village agreement in Bailu Village, which was implemented by the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan. In the evening, Mr. Xu copied the full text of the village appointment with yellow paper and posted it on the wall outside Zumen the next morning. In the evening, White Deer, a man with two surnames over 16 years old, gathered in the school, and xu teacher explained the provisions of the village covenant every night. Every man is required to teach his wife and children the terms of the rural contract memorized at school. Students should also learn to remember at school. Rural conventions are like local textbooks. Bai Jiaxuan solemnly announced to the villagers: "Learning is for use. If you learn, you should use it. Speak, walk and behave in accordance with the "village agreement". Anyone who violates the provisions of the "village agreement" will be recorded by Mr. Xu; Those who commit three crimes shall be punished according to their severity. It is precisely because of such a clear standard of persuasion of rural conventions that the plowman can hear the voice of reciting the rural conventions every night in the ancestral hall of Bailu Village. Since then, stealing chickens and dogs, trying to pick peaches and pinching melons have suddenly disappeared. Gambling businesses such as playing cards, mahjong, rubbing flowers and dice have all been kicked out, and fighting and swearing in the streets and lanes have never happened again. Everyone in Bailu Village has become gentle and sincere, even the voice is soft and slender. In the novel "White Deer Plain", there were four incidents in which ancestral temples were used to punish violations. The first two punishments were given to the white woman who breast-fed the baby on the cloth stone outside the street gate, and the gamblers who used the dried jujube thorn brush to bet on opium smoking; The last two times were the severe punishment of White Dog Egg and Tian Xiaoe, and the prospective patriarch Bai Xiaowen lured by Tian Xiaoe. It can be seen that Bai Jiaxuan, the patriarch, standardized the daily behavior of himself and his people by virtue of the blood relationship between Confucian culture and the ancestral hall in the township agreement, which made the villagers in Bailu Village closely surround him.

In fact, the historical roots of rural customs, whether novels or TV plays, are rooted in history. Chen, the original author of the novel, discovered Lushi Township Covenant in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province in the process of writing Bailuyuan that year. In his impression, when he copied the article, it was more of a sense of novelty. He just wanted to take this opportunity to see what is the inner spirit that can still unite a new life after countless joys and disasters.

This "Covenant of Lu's Hometown" was written by Lu Dajun, a great scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty. His four brothers are called "Si Lv", and their home is just below Bailuyuan. During the Northern Song Dynasty, four brothers, Lu Dafang, Lu Dajun, Lu Dalin and Lu Dazhong, Confucian scholars in Lantian, Shaanxi, were called "Four Lvs". In the ninth year of Zong Shenxi Ning, that is, A.D. 1076, the four brothers initiated the formulation of a rural convention to promote rural development. Its purpose is "to persuade each other with morality, to persuade each other with industry, to regulate each other with negligence, to intersect with customs and etiquette, and to share weal and woe." Advocate mutual goodwill, exhort each other to make mistakes, and advocate good order and good customs. If someone is in trouble, others should lend a helping hand. This also corresponds to the core spirit of rural convention in the original novel.

According to relevant experts' research, this rural convention is probably the earliest one in China. It has a profound impact on the etiquette education and relative stability in the whole rural area of China. For example, novels and TV plays are all about how the patriarch punished those villagers who smoked and gambled in accordance with the rural Covenant, and finally gave up such bad habits, and so on. However, with the development and changes of the times, the villagers have seen the world outside the original, and this kind of governance that pays attention to ethical education seems to have gradually lost its effectiveness. This seemingly sad, helpless, sentimental, but there seems to be an unspeakable sadness.

So, today, is there such a question in our hearts: What are we talking about when we are talking about the "township agreement" on Bailuyuan? In fact, what we are talking about is the endless homesickness in our hearts.

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