They strive to adhere to their beliefs, agreements and the principle of maximizing their own interests without violating the moral bottom line. They are ordinary farmers in China, people who depend on the land for a living. They have the kindness and simplicity of China people and the moderation and cowardice of China people. Chen vividly depicts and grasps human nature in this novel.
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In the early 1980s, due to the special political environment, the creative trend of "reflective literature" appeared, which gradually became a universal literary spirit in the 1980s. This spirit influenced the long-form creation in the 1990s, and many long-form creations in the 1990s are involuntarily moving closer to this spirit.
This also makes the long-form creation in this period reach a new height in the reflection on national history and culture. It is under this literary trend of thought that Chen Meng-sheng has the desire to create White Deer Plain and completed this epic work which can represent this new height of reflection.
The root-seeking theme of White Deer Plain is mainly the root-seeking of spirit and soul. It wrote the essence of Confucian culture with the spiritual pursuit of "truth", and publicized the profound value of China culture and expressed its concept of "seeking roots" through the description of characters in the text. The author's root-seeking thinking does not stop at the root of culture with the pursuit of moral personality as the core, but further reveals the tragedy of human existence displayed by traditional culture.
Under the cultural background of Guanzhong people's existence, Bailuyuan launched a series of character activities. Through vivid characters, it reflects the crude and simple customs in rural areas and the Confucian spirit of being cautious and forbearing.
There are also many objections to the theme researchers of cultural root-seeking in Bailuyuan, because the author highlights the true face of folk history as much as possible in Bailuyuan, profiles the trend of China's contemporary literature, and also has the significance of new historicism novels.
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