For example, Bai Jiaxuan, the background of life is kindness and simplicity. They emphasize kindness, morality and persistence.
For example, Lu Zilin's life background is cunning speculation, and he has a tireless pursuit of power, interests and sex.
There is no doubt that Bai Jiaxuan is the backbone of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. They are faithful followers of Confucianism, but at the same time they are indifferent to Taoism. They stick to loyalty, propriety, wisdom and faith in the era of the collapse of rites and music, and let the spirit of traditional culture stretch like the Great Wall.
Nature, like Lu Zilin, is a moth of society. Their most prominent performance is the pursuit of power. When power and resources are integrated, it becomes pornography in disguise. The trinity of power, money and color makes Lu Zilin unable to break the official addiction, and even small officials as big as sesame are eager for it.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The final winner of the Jianghu dispute seems to be the White House. You see: Bai Jiaxuan is still strong and awe-inspiring; Blindness, on the contrary, shows the peace and detachment of insight into the world. As for Lu Zilin, he peed and shit in his crotch, stripped off his clothes and ran around the village, finally freezing into ice in the howling night.
-two different fates, it seems that God is coldly looking at everything that happens in the world, and then punishing Lu Zilin with his omnipotent hand, which embodies the justice of "one good turn deserves another, and evil turns around".
The novel came to an abrupt end in the face of Lu Zilin's tragic fate. I cried when I closed the book. I love those vivid lives in White Deer Plain, such as Heiwa, Tian Xiaoe, Bai Ling and Lu ... However, I only have respect and heaviness for Bai Jiaxuan described in the novel, but I can't love her.
Even in some cases, Bai Jiaxuan is intertwined with the image of Zhou Puyuan in Thunderstorm, which is not far from the old man in Home. They try to maintain a sense of order with morality, and all those who are out of order will be excluded or eliminated.
With the invisible encirclement of morality, everything in the world is in an orderly state: it is Bai Jiaxuan's ideal life to plow men and weave women. Women cook, wash clothes, raise children, look down on themselves, serve men and be filial to their parents-when doing this, they must be dignified and serene, with clear eyes and no resentment. Women live quietly and naturally like paintings.
Cao Xian, the wife of Bai Jiaxuan, is such an image. When Cao Xian first appeared, I had great expectations. What a powerful aura. This woman who can hold down the first six wives must be a person with a story. As a result, Cao Xian soon disappeared from everyone, just like the woman in the painting. Zhu's wife, Bai Jiaxuan's sister, is also such a housewife, and Bai Jiaxuan's third daughter-in-law is still such a discerning person. ...
I have to say that Mr. Chen's description of women is ideal. He hopes that every man's daughter-in-law will be like the mythical snail girl and the weaver girl, who can work without knowing how to ask for it. In fact, how many bitches, disgruntled women, rural gossips, women who truly abide by morality and have no complaints, especially those picturesque women, live in legends. Except one Tian Xiaoe, all the other women's descriptions in the novel are eclipsed. Including the conceptual spirit.
Tian Xiaoe is a powerful destroyer in Bai Jiaxuan's order. Bai Jiaxuan Tian Xiaoe is not hate, is disdain. In his eyes, killing such a "bitch" will dirty his hands. In his eyes, how can a woman be so immoral?
According to Bai Jiaxuan's logical system, whoever a woman marries must live a satisfactory life.
If a woman can meet a good man like him, she can live her life without waves.
But Bai Jiaxuan never stood in the perspective of human nature to think:
What should Mr. Leng's daughter do when she meets Lu, who has never shared a room with her?
What if, like Liuhe, Lu Zilin meets a woman who is cheating everywhere and screwing around everywhere?
What if Bai Xiaowen, the eldest daughter-in-law, had an affair with Tian Xiaoe and starved herself to death?
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Fate, the giant hand, will not arrange life like Bai Jiaxuan's ideal state. It is sexual and makes every life full of pain and helplessness.
When morality is placed above human nature, there is a sense of order, but every life lacks rhythm and vitality. The sadness of a guardian like Bai Jiaxuan is that he has never really felt it in his life, and he has never lived for himself indulgently, because he neglected the emotional experience of details. For this, he doesn't know: morality has become a part of his life, integrated with him, like dust dissolved in light, and he is measuring his own survival value with morality, which is probably what he personally thinks is true.
His every move deserves moral attention. Personal emotional experience and compassion, like branches on a tree, must be cut off and merged into an orderly world. As a patriarch, he manages Bailu Village, manages children and punishes Tian Xiaoe ... so he is very cold. He said Mr. Leng, "You are colder than me!" But he thinks this indifference is a realm and the pursuit of perfect morality.
As the head of Bailu Village, when Bai Jiaxuan was too incompetent, Lu Zilin stood on both sides of him. He felt sorry for having brought himself to the unruly Tian Xiaoe as a mountain-like black baby. Heiwa became a bandit, revenged Xiao E and broke his waist. The ambiguity between Bai Xiaowen and Tian Xiaoe became his greatest pain; The ghost ran away for the revolution and didn't come home. If he didn't know this daughter ... his children became traitors in his world. How can it not hurt?
Bai Jiaxuan's pain is that he exaggerates the binding force of morality. He thought that with the help of Mr. Zhu's village Covenant, the deterrence of ancestral temple and the tradition of Renyi Village, the moral decline could be stopped. Who knows, morality can only act on people who talk about morality, Mr. Zhu talks about morality, Mr. Leng talks about morality, and Mr. Lu talks about morality, but do all people in Bailuyuan talk about morality? At least that duplicity, cheating behind Lu Zilin won't say. How can he resist Lu Zilin?
Bai Jiaxuan's pain also lies in his belief in his spotless, totally clean and aboveboard role. His kindness and righteousness to Lu Sanhe and the people set an example for the villagers. But apart from Lu San, how many people are dead set on following him? Bai Xiaowen, his son entrusted with a heavy responsibility, became the biggest traitor in the White House. The power of example is not unlimited.
Under the bondage of morality, Bai Jiaxuan also creates tragedies for people around him. Besides Tian Xiaoe, Bai Xiaowen is another tragedy he created. If he hadn't stripped Bai Xiaowen of the last layer of underwear in the name of morality, Bai Xiaowen wouldn't have gone so far. It is an indisputable fact that his son, a father who sets an example and works hard to educate future generations, is not as good as the two sons of the deer family. Of course, this is also related to his persistence in tradition and alienation from the times.
Bai Jiaxuan must have gained a certain degree of moral superiority in the position of patriarch. As a patriarch, when the stars hold the moon and the mountains fall, it is inevitable that a sense of saints will be born. When he executed Tian Xiaoe, when he executed Bai Xiaowen, and when he stopped Heiwa from entering the ancestral temple, which time was it not dignified and cold?
There is a story in the Bible that a woman was caught for fornication and everyone surrounded her to stone her to death. Jesus said to the onlookers, "Whoever thinks she is innocent can stone her to death." They silently put down the stone and dispersed.
Since all beings are suffering, why should they pretend to be saints in the name of morality?
We mortals are always full of loopholes, and we feel depressed with saints. -Maybe this is the real reason why I don't like Bai Jiaxuan very much.