Comments of celebrities at home and abroad on Home.

1. From a historical point of view, this colorful language form was formed under the radical anti-tradition and anti-authority cultural mentality in the 1930s, but at the same time it became the basic carrier for the continuation and development of this cultural mentality.

-Xu Zidong's Ba Jin and "Youth Revolutionary Mentality"

Emotionally speaking, this novel is an indictment, which shows all the evils of the old family system, such as freedom of love, repression of personality, cruelty of ethics, absolute authority of the elderly and shamelessness of guardians.

-Luo's Confucian Culture of Harmony and 20th Century China Literature, Literature Review,No. 1 2000.

Extended data

Home is a novel written by China writer Ba Jin. It was first serialized by 193 1 in The Times, with the original title of Torrent. Ming Kai Bookstore published the first booklet of Home in May, 1933.

The novel describes the sin and decay of a big feudal family in Chengdu, Sichuan in the early 1920s, accuses the feudal system of destroying life, and praises the anti-feudal struggle and the awakening of democracy of the younger generation.

The mode of telling family stories in Home is very typical in the enlightenment discourse, which has played a strong demonstration role in the later family novel creation. Criticizing and completely denying the traditional family system and feudal ethics has also become a lasting and powerful theme of this kind of novels.