Bailuyuan: Living is to fight against impermanence.
The novel begins with the story of Bai Jiaxuan who lost his sixth wife. It tells the story of the disputes and grievances surrounding two families with the same surname, Bai and Lu, on the White Deer Plain. The change and development of Bailuyuan is a metaphor for the development of contemporary society. The bloody disputes and revolutionary struggles on Bailuyuan reflect the ignorance and resistance of China society at that time.
The mythical mascot, Bailuyuan, which abides by family rules for generations, Bai Jiaxuan, who has lost six marriages, and Lu Zilin, who is addicted to beauty and hypocrisy ... The changing times have shrouded Bailuyuan, the shackles of the old society, the uneasiness of the new era, and the darkness and helplessness hidden by the rise of the lion, which are staged in Bailuyuan.
First, the dispute over Bailuyuan witnessed the overthrow of a dynasty's history.
Bai Jiaxuan invited Mr. Leng from the Chinese Medicine Hall to act as a middleman, playing the role of a fool and exchanging his two acres of fertile land with the rotten land on the gentle slope of Lujia. Everyone can see that this is a loss-making business. The Lujia family is now thriving and eager to have good farmland. How can Bai Jiaxuan be such an IQ as the head of a new family?
Just when everyone was puzzled, the dispute on Bailuyuan quietly began.
After six marriages and six funerals, Bai Jiaxuan successfully married his seventh wife, Cao Xian, reaching the peak of his life and becoming a respected patriarch of Bailuyuan. However, Lu Zilin, who grew up with Bai Jiaxuan, is still playing around on the surface.
Lu Zilin was jealous of Bai Jiaxuan's esteem, and the dispute between the two families of Bailu continued to the next generation: Lu San's son Heiwa brought back Tian Xiaoe, a married woman who had an affair with him; Lu Zhaopeng, the son of Lu Zilin, helped Heiwa to make revolution; "White Wolf" and "crow soldier" attack; Lu Zilin and Tian Xiaoe had an affair with Bai Xiaowen, the son of Bai La Jiaxuan; The White House separated Lu Zilin and became a "village official". Bai Xiaowen fell, and Lu Sanyi killed his wife in anger; Heiwa became a bandit for revenge, and the white deer was looted; ……
The revolutionary party on Bailuyuan was oppressed and rebelled wave after wave, and the leaders on the ancestral hall stepped off the stage one by one, and the wind and water turned around. The former guerrillas have become the revolutionary army today, and the former brotherhood has become the enemy of today's brothers. Lu Zilin pulled down Bai Xiaowen's face, and Bai Jiaxuan made a revolutionary criticism of Lao. You fight with me, village officials fight with their sons. After the fight, my sons fought with Lao Tzu, and there was chaos outside.
From thinking that "a woman is just a piece of paper that sticks a window, tearing it off and putting on a new layer" to "a daughter doesn't have to be wrapped in foot pain";
From The Judge Catches Ghosts, Fill the Pot with Water and Roast the Dog to Tian Xiaoe's possession of Lu San and Bai Jiaxuan's Demon of Building a Tower;
From being forced to marry Leng Qingqiu and Leng Qingqiu as a widow to having fun and falling in love freely. ...
Judges catch ghosts, Guo eats "soaking dates", slashes gods and draws water, female ghosts are possessed, pagoda kills demons, asks God for advice, and goes to the club with wooden sticks. ...
Family feuds and ethnic hatred, the changes of the times, the mythical mascot White Deer, the White Deer Plain that abides by family rules for generations, the superstitious "dynasty" and the dispute over White Deer Plain have witnessed the overthrow of a dynasty's history.
Second, what I care about most is not Mr. Zhu, who is knowledgeable, but Bai Jiaxuan, whose back is straight and hard.
"Hold your head high and dress properly" is an educational concept handed down from childhood, which is not only related to people's mental outlook, but also the embodiment of a person's indomitable spirit. Bai Jiaxuan in White Deer Plain is a typical figure with this character.
After the failure of the "wind stirring snow" activity on Bailuyuan, Heiwa happened to join the ranks of the bandits Zheng Mang, and she became the "second thumb" of the bandits.
After Heiwa became the second master of bandits' nest, she had only one purpose, that is, to avenge herself. Rob two fat households in Bailu Village, one is Luzilin and the other is Bai Jiaxuan.
Lu Zilin was not at home, and Heiwa closed her eyes with empty eyes, but sent Lu Zilin's Lao Zi to the west. Bai Jiaxuan and Heiwa have been thinking about the kindness of the White House since childhood, and only said, "I hated Uncle Bai Jiaxuan's stiff waist when I was a child." The guys were relieved and gave Bai Jiaxuan a heavy waist.
Bai Jiaxuan narrowly escaped death, and nothing can beat him. In the face of life and death, everything is as usual, and his straight and hard waist is the most important symbol on the White Deer Plain.
First, the symbol of the clan leader: When the "crow soldiers" attacked, Bai Jiaxuan took the initiative to implement the "chicken feather stickers" to safeguard the clan's interests, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of the clan against the bandit soldiers with his own posture; When plague, drought and famine came, regardless of his old health, he chose to build a tower town demon and cut the gods to get water ... It was his duty to the white deer people to straighten his hard back. ...
Second, the symbol of the religion of the head of the family: Lu Zilin despised Bai Jiaxuan as the head of the family, and secretly designed Bai Xiaowen, the son of Bai Jiaxuan, in an attempt to discredit Bai Jiaxuan through the fall of Bai Xiaowen.
However, Bai Jiaxuan did not "bow his head" as Lu Zilin expected, but chose to put righteousness above family members. When Bai Xiaowen was exposed by Lu Zilin's design of adultery with Tian Xiaoe, Bai Jiaxuan was still arrogant, severely punished Bai Xiaowen and Tian Xiaoe according to clan rules, and chose to break up, so that the degenerate son would take the consequences and never cover up;
When Bai Xiaowen and Tian Xiaoe smoked opium to sell their land, Lu Zilin sent someone to the White House to tear down Bai Xiaowen's house and sell it to him. Bai Jiaxuan was not angry, but reminded Lu Zilin to tear down all the four walls of the house. In his mind, he has clearly understood that Lu Zilin is related to the fall of Xiao Wen, but he did not take the opportunity to satirize Lu Zilin's hypocrisy and insidiousness, but blamed himself. Bai Xiaowu, the second son, saw everything in his father's eyes.
On the surface, Bai Jiaxuan doesn't care about anything. In fact, he knows everything in his heart. He got to the bottom of everything, but didn't say anything. In the face of everything, he will stand up straight and work hard, and nothing can beat him. He is the head of the family. If he doesn't, he will have a chance to start over, leaving a decent example for his descendants, selfless and lasting family justice. ...
Third, the indomitable spirit and integrity of the overall situation: Lu Zilin has secretly caused trouble to Bai Jiaxuan many times, and Bai Jiaxuan has never dismissed it and never hit people when they are down.
When Lu Zilin pursued fame and fortune and became a "village official", Bai Jiaxuan took his son to repair the old village contract of Renyi Bailu Village to appease the anxiety caused by civil strife;
When Lu Zilin took advantage of his son's status as an official, he went around picking flowers, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and Bai Jiaxuan refused to comment on leading an honest and clean life.
When the plague disaster came, Lu Zilin took care of himself. Influenced by his father, Bai Xiaowu, the son of Bai Jiaxuan, shouldered the responsibility of being the head of the family, restored the genealogy of the ancestral temple and comforted the dead.
When the war broke out, Lu Zilin was deeply disturbed. Bai Jiaxuan asked his son to avoid refusing to take office, not joining any faction, not discrediting any forces, and thinking for himself. ...
What I care about most is not Mr. Zhu, who is knowledgeable and unpredictable, but Bai Jiaxuan, who is straight and hard.
Changing the dynasty, the victorious dynasty will eventually uproot the old evils. Lu Zilin, who once had unlimited scenery, became a madman who competed with wild dogs for food, while Bai Jiaxuan, who was indomitable and always held his head high, remained the head of the family.
Third, live against impermanence.
In the years of plague, famine, civil strife and foreign wars, there were countless casualties on Bailuyuan. After the death of his wife Cao Xian, Bai Jiaxuan, who had lived for half his life, had a feeling:
Because of Lu Zilin's design, Bai Xiaowen became a degenerate love rat who robbed dog food in the wild dog pile. He had to die to survive, but he never imagined that because of Lu San's "grabbing rice", he ushered in a turning point in his life.
Turning over, Bai Xiaowen joined the county's public security team, and with his own skills, he rose from security to captain and then to battalion commander.
From the moment his wife died and his brother died, Heiwa broke off the father-son relationship with his father Lu San, and doubted each other with the bandit brothers, and could not find a way out until he accepted Bai Xiaowen's complaint and salted fish turned over and became the battalion commander of the artillery battalion.
Fortunately, Bai Xiaowen did not commit suicide because of depravity, Heiwa did not choose despair because of despair, and both of them ushered in the highlight moment of life because they were alive.
People can grow up overnight because of long-term despair and sudden death of the heart. What can stay after death is to see through life and death.
Sima Qian, who suffered from imprisonment and humiliation, wrote Historical Records. Gou Jian, the king of Yue who suffered from national subjugation, and cancer patients who lingered near the line of life and death bravely fought against cancer ... Things are unpredictable, as Bai Jiaxuan said, "The living can't always regret the benefits of broken shafts, because broken shafts are useless, and they must be replaced with new axles to let the ox cart climb the potholes and continue on the road."
It is useless to immerse yourself in the past and regret what you have lost, because what you have lost will never come back and will no longer be useful. The important thing is that those who are still alive can only change everything if they fight against the impermanence of the world.
The most important thing is to live against the vagaries of the world.