Listen to him, his father is a primary school math teacher.
I didn't understand what he meant at first. I only borrowed this book because I saw a recommendation from an author in a magazine.
But after reading a few articles, I understood the meaning of his mysterious smile and why his father didn't let him read it at that time.
This is obviously a book with some colors.
See what the first four chapters of White Deer Plain say.
The first sentence of the book is: "Bai Jiaxuan is most proud of marrying a woman with seven rooms."
Next, how did every woman in his room die, and how did the Bai Jiaxuan family win the capital and marry back to the same room.
The White House will do anything to get a wife. Even before Bai Bingde, the father of Bai Jiaxuan, died suddenly, he "forced" Jia Xuan with his last breath. After his death, he should marry his fifth daughter-in-law and go home immediately without mourning for three years, even if he sells his cattle, horses, land and house.
Next, Bai Zhao, the mother, is the master, and she is more decisive than her husband in marrying a daughter-in-law. After the death of the five-room daughter-in-law, she immediately planned the next one.
In this way, Bai Jiaxuan married the woman in the sixth room with twenty stones of wheat and twenty bundles of cotton. But this wife didn't last long, and she was "damn" and scared to death.
In desperation, Bai Jiaxuan moved the idea of inviting Yin and Yang teachers to visit the homestead and ancestral graves.
Also on the way to invite Yin and Yang teachers, Bai Jiaxuan saw the white deer, a spiritual body on the White Deer Plain, in the snow.
The first four chapters basically talk about these.
We know that in excellent literary works, no word or paragraph is superfluous, but they all have profound significance.
So, what is the purpose of Chen's writing like this? But in two ways.
The first theme: the cost of carrying on the family line. At that time, feudal thought was extremely serious, and the concept of "three unfilial is the greatest" was deeply rooted.
If you want a "queen", you must marry a wife. To this end, the White House, as a noble family, landlord and big family in Bailuyuan, married several wives and spent almost all the wealth accumulated by several generations. During this period, my father died of anxiety.
The second theme: women's status is so low that even women themselves look down on themselves.
This can be seen from Bai Jiaxuan's mother Bai Zhao. In her eyes,
It can be said that under the infiltration of feudal thought, none of the women in Bailuyuan can have an independent and complete personality. If you have to count, Ghost is half.
Throughout these four chapters, this book has laid a good foundation. For example, after Bai Jiaxuan failed to marry a woman with six rooms, it was the perfect foreshadowing for him to meet Bailuyuan, and there was a clever change of scenery behind it.
It has to be mentioned that land exchange is a foreshadowing that runs through the whole article, and even implies the final outcome-the fruit of Lu's revolutionary career that he struggled for half his life was taken away by Bai Xiaowen, which is almost the same as Bai Jiaxuan's initial land exchange action.
In addition, the "ghost" story of a woman with six rooms (a woman with five rooms in front of her) is also a prelude to magical realism in the book. This style has a lot of withdrawal behind it. The most typical thing is that Bai Xiaowen was seduced by Tian Xiaoe that night and remained silent at the critical moment.
This is because, at that time, he still had the moral shackles of a "good man", and the fact that Tian Xiaoe was basically a rotten woman always had problems in his heart.
It was not until he was punished, broken pots and broken falls, and completely abandoned the image of a "good man" that he passed this hurdle.
There are also plots such as Tian Xiaoe's dead body, being strangled by Bai Jiaxuan with a tower and never turning over, all of which use magical realism.
In a word, White Deer Plain is an epic masterpiece. It describes the changes of the times, the extension of characters, and the interlocking stories, which are really shocking.
Therefore, if you only read a few of them, it is really out of context and biased to classify them as indescribable books.
Of course, parents may think that junior high school students are not suitable for reading White Deer Plain. After all, color still exists. For this, parents should treat it rationally and guide their children. Color description serves the content and represents an indispensable part. What we should think about is the phenomenon and significance reflected behind it.
Therefore, such a good book, in my opinion, should not be banned from reading, but should be recommended.