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白鹿原

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This is a splendid saga of Guanzhong Plain as well as a colorful painting scroll of Chinese village. Bai Jiaxuan, the protagonist marries six wives who all died. This weird destiny indicates ill omen. Two generations of a family put on soul-stirring plays for ruling White Deer grabbing geomantic field, taking honey-trap for malevolence, dutiful son becoming gangster, kind father-in-law killing his daughter-in-law, struggles of brothers, lovers becoming enemies...Great Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, three-year civil war...The place changes dramatically-time changes, enmity of family and nation are entangled and complex. The revenge wrongly goes from generation to generation. The antique soil is trembling in the throes.

646 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

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509 reviews319 followers
August 19, 2024
白嘉轩就是白鹿原。一个人撑着一道原。

书里最喜欢的人物之一就是身为族长的白嘉轩。他光明磊落,正直正义,是整个白鹿原的“灵魂”人物,确实有一族之长的担当。白嘉轩对妻子情真意切,对长工鹿三有情有义……但对于“父亲”这个身份来说,他不算成功。

一开始就被白嘉轩委以重任的孝文也确实按着原定的方向在走,但在父亲的严苛要求下慢慢开始破罐破摔,行着让白嘉轩唾弃的事。浪子也有回头日,孝文进入保安团,一路升官。但他们父子之间的关系却再也回不到从前。

孝武估计就是大家口中非常听话的孩子吧。原本是种地的好手,却因为哥哥而成为父亲的期望。他处处在学着父亲,却处处学不像,缺少主见,没有主心骨的他只能注定是个模仿者。
如果说对三个儿子是极端严格的控制,那么对女儿白灵的疼爱多一点,自由度更高,这也成就了白灵独立果敢的性格,但白嘉轩始终是传统的,在女儿逃婚后,坚决的说出了断绝父女关系,再不想见的话。他们也确实没有再见过了,这也成了很多人的遗憾吧,反正我是。

如果说白家是重情重义,那鹿子霖就是重财重利,总想着要在白家那多挣点面子。不可否认鹿子霖在白鹿原的贡献,但也做尽了荒唐事,田小娥的起因也大都因为鹿子霖。

田小娥这个鲜活的形象也代表着无数反抗封建枷锁的女性。田小娥在最美好的年纪却被卖给了一个70岁的举人当工具,如果不是尊严被践踏,田小娥就不会选择跟黑娃走,虽然黑娃给了她一段“美好的婚姻生活”,但也是因为黑娃把她一个人留在白鹿原,让鹿子霖有了控制田小娥的机会。

不管是含恨而终的田小娥,受尽讥讽受活寡的冷秋月,亦或者是白嘉轩前面死去的六任妻子,对大多数女性来说,她们身上都有着一张无法挣脱的网。

这本书是两家族之间的恩怨史,也是一部浓缩的民族史。心怀远志的鹿兆鹏,传统保守的鹿三,劣根觉醒的鹿兆谦(黑娃),清醒智慧的朱先生。也让我们了解到了人的多面性和人性的困境。
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164 reviews
November 14, 2024
Ótimo livro, referência para se mergulhar na história da China do início do século XX. Todavia, sofre muito com algo que costuma me incomodar quando leio épicos: o fluxo temporal. Algumas coisas, por vezes fatos importantíssimos para o enredo, que demoram anos para ocorrer, acontecem rápido demais, se passando em duas ou três páginas.
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June 6, 2017
After reading "The plain of White Deer", I close the thick book, in front of my eyes, I can still see all of the lively characters in the book. The story took place in a small Chinese village called the white deer plain, the author narrated the village's tragic experiences and history to show a nation's history and culture. From the subversion of the decadent Qing government to the establishment of the new regime of the People's Republic of China, the book demonstrated this grand historical background and both of its bright and dark side. This novel reflected to the darkest aspects in our vicious nature and our society, it really left us with a question of the containment of our savageness within. I would highly recommend this book to young adults who is up for a challenge for a really deep book.

ps.there are english translation copies to this book
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17 reviews13 followers
January 1, 2018
关中百姓起名字的艺术可谓是独树一帜 男娃和女子的名字风格迥异 各有所长 男娃的名字如 牛犊 马驹 骡驹 黑娃 兔娃 勺娃 芒娃 三娃 洒脱和不羁之余又有严丝合缝的精确 用一两个字即概括了某娃的特点 难度可想而知 大俗即大雅 这种摒弃了生辟词藻 褪去了深奥寓意而直面生命和大自然的名字才是好名字 闻名如见人 使我不禁琢磨起葫芦娃的故乡。而另一方面,女孩的名字则从骨子里透出一股仙气 仙草 田小蛾 白灵 这分明都是金庸笔下女侠的名字。

白鹿原这篇小说人物塑造很朴实 大多数的人物性格界限并不分明 就连作为对立面的白嘉轩和鹿子霖也是我中有你 你中有我。但这种写法却让人觉得很真实。白嘉轩就像那一坨土地一样,一辈子从未改变。更可贵的是他活得自由,不论外界环境怎样的变化,他从未动摇过自己的坚持 得势不张扬 失势也不胆怯,腰板儿就是直 与其形成对比的是鹿子霖,他终其一生精于算计 顺势则起 逆势则伏 绝对算得上是个聪明人 可以称得上是当地的西门大官人,也是干女儿遍地。如果说白嘉轩是大风大浪中的一块礁石的话,鹿子霖就是风浪中的老司机。他疯掉的原因书上虽然没有直接指出,可我觉得应该是他死也想不明白为什么自己把每一件事都计划的周全可到头来还是落得个一场空。可见人算不如天算,特别是在那样一个动荡的年代。

现在回味起来让我印象最深的人是白孝文,他可以算是腹黑的经典模版。我本以为他会死在那个牛坑中,哪知道后来又飞黄腾达起来,这不能不说有些牵强。孝文的崛起纯属剧情需要 作用有两个: 一是给黑娃的死平添一抹悲剧色彩,更让人唏嘘,二是揭露一下当今有些官员的本质以及他们的发迹史。至于田小蛾,小蛾就像是野草,随风飘荡,外表柔弱但生命力顽强。她的所作所为虽然为人所不齿,但都是为了生存。在那个年代,女人只有依附于男人才能才能生存下去。而小蛾的境遇逼着她只有出卖自己的肉体给不同的男人才能活下去。

至于陆家长子鹿兆鹏也有一些特点,写作手法中有一点神秘主义。兆鹏身为共党,行迹如同鬼魅 国民党无论如何也掌握不了他的行踪,而他却常常在不经意间出现在别人家里,撂下几句让人捉不着头脑的话便飘然离去,而这些话往往起着剧情转折的作用,剧终了也不知道他最后去了哪。这种设定让我很有点接受不了,因为这影响了剧情的流畅性。

另一个使我更纳闷的人物是朱先生。朱先生简直就是诸葛亮再生,事事皆洞明。往往是因为他的某句至理名言,令某人醍醐灌顶,然后某人才能作出正确决定。朱先生虽然是当世大儒,想必是不耽误其儒道兼修,是太上老君转世的事实吧。但其实这个角色与整篇小说的基调极为不符。小说的基调其实是土黄色的,而朱先生则是金闪闪的。就像污浊的小便池配着锃亮的不锈钢管道。从他一眼识破白鹿到最后的仙逝,只要他一出场,我顿时就像读起了三国演义。作者对这个角色的喜爱是不言自明的。判断作者对一个角色是喜欢还是讨厌,看他对这个角色死相的安排就行。朱先生死时那么的安详,几乎可以算得上是死相完美了。死后几十年还能将小红卫兵们一军,道行实在是深。可见作者心中圣人的模样就如朱先生了。再看看小蛾的死,蛆虫满身,可以推断出作者对她肯定是极为厌恶的。我觉得作者一旦对某一角色有偏袒,小说便会跑偏,如朱先生这一人设,在剧中不可谓不重要,可是要是去掉他也无伤大雅。

无论在什么年代,生活中有无数股力量冲击着人们做人的底线。内在的,外来的,有意的,无意的,善意的,恶意的。而人们往往在这些力量下一再降低底线,因为只有降低了底线,才更容易做人,欲望才更容易得到满足,毕竟为什么一定要玩hard mode呢?然而降低了底线便会丢失了一些东西,可是它们又有什么可贵的呢?就像白孝文,不要脸了下体便能竖起来,自己的老子又算什么?可谁知他这么一竖祸根便从此种下,最可恶的是这祸根不仅仅只为自己种下,更牵连着许多无辜的人。悲剧的开始往往是君子遇到小人。但是说到底人这种东西只不过是地球上生物进化的产物,所谓的思维,知觉,感情,以及各种主义等等只不过是大脑里的随机的化学反应和电流作用的产物,我相信人与动物没有本质上的区别。那么什么是对什么是错说到底便是虚无的,没有任何依据的,甚至带有欺骗性的。既然人是被迫带到这个世界上的,那么人就应该赋予自己活着的意义。有些人信奉并且效仿圣人,我们把这类人称之为君子,有些人欣赏西门庆和潘金莲,我们把他们称之为小人。人应该有所相信,有所坚持,也即所谓的自由,我觉得这是人与禽兽的最大区别。而在这一点上白嘉轩是做到了,所以他是正面人物,他一生从不动摇,坚持做自己。而鹿子霖没有做到,他的一生只热衷于搞倒,搞臭白嘉轩,所以他是反面人物。然而不幸的是这投机取巧的基因片断从刘邦老儿那会就已经深深注入汉族人的体内,很难甩掉。

最后一点小小的发现。作家对于屎好像有特殊的情结。鹿子霖的屎尿结成的黄蜡蜡的冰块让我至今记忆犹新,这一笔对屎的描写较王小波的笔法更传神。之前读的檀香刑中也有许多对屎的描写,让我印象最深的莫过于狐仙送给眉娘的神药。我对中药再怎么不信,这一剂药不得不承认它绝对会药到病除。屎这个东西的特殊性在于,不论岁月如何蹉跎,沧海怎么桑田,屎永远是一件从人身上掉下来的而人却不愿承认是自己的东西。作家描写屎其实用意非常单纯,就是为了触动人心中的那根虚伪的弦。作家写小说就像在编曲,人读书就像是在按谱演曲,这乐器也就是人身上的弦。当然了人身上绝不止这一根弦,人下半身的那根弦就更不必提了,作家浮夸地写性有时候也就是为了拨弄那根弦而已。
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41 reviews1 follower
August 26, 2017
多年前读过,电视剧热播后重读,完全不同的感受。单说文字,早年觉得粗俗,现今觉得细腻,甚至觉得关中一带的地方语言竞有一丝文言文的典雅。比如,小娥说:“鹿相,你款款吃”,这“款款”比起我们通常的“慢慢”古色古香很多,又有了西北味儿,去过或来自西北的朋友,读起来都倍觉亲切。 整本书共三十四章,作者以白家和鹿家两大家族三代的恩怨纷争为线索,从小老百姓的视角去经历、去体验那些从清未民初到建国之初半个世纪里历史事件,有着令人震憾的真实感,引发人们对每一次历史事件的反思。说这本书是一部经典传世佳作,一点不为过。
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6 reviews
July 15, 2025
La historia transcurre en una aldea ubicada en las afueras de mi ciudad, por eso culturalmente me resulta muy cercana. La obra tiene múltiples protagonistas, cada uno retratado con una vitalidad extraordinaria y un lenguaje que encarna perfectamente sus rasgos. Los conflictos se desarrollan en múltiples capas: luchas de clases sociales, la dignidad de la mujer, sentimientos patrióticos, valores nacionales e incluso dilemas familiares. Me encanta esta forma de narrar, donde a través de personajes comunes y corrientes de una aldea insignificante, se logra explorar la naturaleza humana y reflejar la sociedad.
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28 reviews21 followers
July 27, 2017
少年时读不太懂为什么此书有如此高的评价,而今再读却是深受感动,作者用通俗的语言传达了很多至深的人生哲理。

书中人物各有特点,若说欣赏,黑娃鹿兆谦算一个。他的经历坎坷,做土匪期间行事虽显粗鲁,但是做人的正理他始终也没有丢,及至后来寻知书达理的姑娘为妻、拜朱先生为师、好学做人,在做人上件件走在了白孝文一类人的前面。若说丑陋,鹿子霖、田福贤、白孝文等用衣冠禽兽来形容也不为过,在国家面临危难当头,也不忘个人私利,并且在成为县官儿之后趾高气扬,对曾经让自己丢过脸面的人一律追究到底。只可惜这类人即使在现时的中国也不乏其人,甚是可悲。朱先生在书一开始便说过,人最在乎的无外乎身前荣和身后名。鹿、田、白一类人过于追求身前荣连最基本的做人行事准则都破了。。。话说回来,白鹿原里面人物的各式命运和国家命运以及他们生活的环境息息相关,很多时候也有身不由己,比如田小娥、鹿兆鹏最初的媳妇。我向来认为一个人的行为是他自身的基因和外界环境的共同作用,这在任何时候任何地点都不例外,包括曾经的白鹿原。

朱先生在书中是神一般的存在,行事也是颇有风度。这就是当时的读书人,虽有迂腐却不失可爱。谨以黑娃给朱先生的挽联纪念:“自信平生无愧事,死后方能对青天”。

不知为何想到另外一句:“文章千古事,得失寸心知。”
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55 reviews1 follower
December 31, 2021
读书原为修身,正己才能正人正事;不修身不正己而去正人正世者,无一不是盗名欺世。

好好活着!活着就要记住,人生最痛苦最绝望的那一刻是最难熬的一刻,但不是生命结束的最后一刻;熬过去挣过去就会开始一个重要的转折,开始一个新的辉煌历程;心软一下熬不过去就死了,死了一切就都完了。

世事你不经它,你就摸不准它。世事就是俩字:福祸。凡遇好事别张狂,张狂过头了后面就有祸了;凡遇祸的时光也别乱套,忍着忍着,哪怕咬着牙也得忍着受着,忍过了受过了好事就跟着来了。

世上有许多事,尽管看得清清楚楚,却不能说出口来。有的事看见了认准了,必须说出来;有的事至死也不能说。能把握住什么事必须说,什么事不能说的人,才是真正的男人。
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31 reviews1 follower
November 11, 2014
人,都是在被时代推着走
人哇哇大哭着来到世上,因为是被老天一脚从天上踹下来受苦,所以明眼人受苦都想得开
白鹿原成了烙锅盔的鏊子。无论时代如何变,最活跃最聒噪的永远是那一批人。
有人一时得势,但没有人是永远的赢家。得意时不要张狂,失意时也不要气馁。
越是艰难困苦的时刻,越要好好活着,熬着。
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100 reviews131 followers
October 1, 2018
2 tuần cũng đã đọc xong cuốn tiểu thuyết hơn 1700 trang.
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600 reviews20 followers
April 28, 2020

012-White Deer Plain-Chen Zhongshi-Novel-1993
Barack

——"A novel is considered to be the secret history of a nation."

The first edition of " White Deer Plain " was released in 1993. It used the stage of White Deer Village on White Deer Plain in the Guanzhong area of ​​Shaanxi Province as a stage and shows the historical scrolls from the early years in the 20th century to the seventies in the 20th century.

Chen Zhongshi, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi in 1942, died in 2016. Representative works: "White Deer Plain", "Village", "Four Sisters" and so on.

The beginning of the novel has a certain fantasy color. Bai Jiaxuan's fate conflicts with his wife. The plant in the slope is transformed into a real white deer. It is inaccurate to say that the Chinese have no faith or worship. Most of us believe in Confucianism and worship ancestors.

A writer only writes vividly about his familiar life and writes realistically about the characters he has seen. As for the prototype of the story and the prototype of the characters, I don't think it's necessary to investigate. Even if these things didn't happen to Bai Jiaxuan or Lu Zilin, it probably happened to someone else. Therefore, the reader feels that the story of the work is true and that the characters in the work carry the shadow of someone around them.

Most people are easy to accept what is visualized, but resist accepting what is abstract. So, storytelling is one of the best educational methods. I think the difference between pure entertainment works and valuable works is that the only goal of entertainment works is to make people happy, while readers know clearly that such people and such things are contrary to the logic of reality.

So, when we finished watching AV in Japan, some romantic dramas in South Korea, and online novels in China, we were greatly satisfied. But we also knew that this was impossible in real life. When we finished watching Pride and Prejudice, we knew that we and the people around us often made mistakes made by Darcy and Elizabeth, thus promoting the process of introspection.

Mr. Zhu said that repairing the ancestral hall is a small good deed while setting up a school is a big good deed. In the era of farming, if even ordinary farmers can abide by such simple family management principles, then the folk customs are generally honest. The hope of a nation and a country lies in its minors. What kind of education a minor has received will determine where they will lead this nation and country in the future and how they will educate their next generations.

Bai Jiaxuan's parents are willing to pay all the savings to make their son get married. This reflects the Chinese's extreme attachment to lineage succession. From the fact that many young people are forced to marry by their parents, it can be seen that this kind of thinking still has a large number of supporters today, but the current family structure has changed from a large family to a small family, and the parents have little binding force on their children. When it comes to the middle of this century, this kind of thinking should be even weaker.

A person ’s own life is limited in length and width, and he cannot step into two rivers at the same time. But he can see the living conditions of other people in time and space through books. In the beginning, what attracted him was stories that made him feel strange. But in the end, he was usually impressed by various characters who were active on the historical stage. This makes the reader have a deeper understanding of human nature.

What is the significance of this realization? I think it probably makes us live more clearly. "The Analects of Confucius," says, "Only the wisest men and the most ignorant man are unchangeable." Most people are in between, so they are suffering. If we don't plan to walk in the direction of foolishness, then we will walk towards the goal of wisdom.

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28 reviews1 follower
November 9, 2020
电视剧版《白鹿原》里,白嘉轩和朱先生从清兵大营回来,朱先生问:“对你来说最重要的是什么”,白嘉轩想也没想:“地”。的确啊,在书里我感觉到了庄稼人对土地的情感,他们来自土地也要回归土地。读的时候我不止一次地希望,不要再出什么乱子了啊,大家就这样种自己的地不好吗?这个愿望就被一次又一次地打破。朝代更替,恩恩怨怨,一代一代人来了,做了好事也做过坏事,让人敬佩也还让人厌恶也罢,最终都要回归土地,静静地看天下风起云涌。 个人认为此书是中国现代小说中最好的一本。
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18 reviews9 followers
March 21, 2013
以我这个肤浅小女子写不出这本书所传递的宏大。
只认为在民国时期,加入共产党也不是, 加入国民党也不是。 悲惨的全是我们的百姓。
朱先生“世人皆醉,我独醒”的姿态让我钦佩。

看了书后又看了电影,感觉电影全拍“田小娥” 去了。画面倒是蛮淳朴,蛮吸引我的。
总之,电影远不及书。
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84 reviews
May 18, 2016
比起《丰乳肥臀》, 对人性的刻画似乎更流于刻板,模式化;
看的过程中少了看《丰乳肥臀》时的经常会有的发自内心的触动,悲怆,惊异, 感慨.....
《丰乳肥臀》更大气.
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Author 6 books5 followers
July 6, 2021
Um dos melhores livros que já li. Uma narrativa histórica impressionante.
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347 reviews60 followers
January 1, 2022
Here are my meta-thoughts about how to read such books:

Starting point) There are two possible mentality that can feel it difficult when reading stories like this:

Possible audience 1: Many people are used to reading non-fictions, such as Poor Economics [My Review] which introduces the actual situation of poor people and common mentalities. When they encounter a novel that is just in the form of a story, they feel that (a) this is unreal, what am I expected to get out of it? and (b) this is only one story, and induction (inferring a pattern from one example) can be erroneous.

Possible audience 2: More people enjoy reading fictions and enjoy the journey together with the story. A story being a story brings them fun.

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Benefits of reading books like this) This novel is created based on the author's observation of real-world phenomena. There are several features of composing the context.

The baseline is to do the documentary / journalism / case study way, recording real stories, such as What I Have Seen.

Creating novels based on real-world patterns has the following pros and cons:
Pros)
- The author can compile a high density of events together in one story, and this arrangement can stimulate the readers to capture the pattern better and more easily.
- By wrapping up things in fictions and metaphor, the author can avoid attack from censorship, to some extent.
- There are way more readers that are in the type 2 audience above, so wrapping the factual patterns in stories might be the only way to bring these concepts to them, otherwise they wouldn't read such books at all.
- The artistic effect of the literature can strengthen the ridiculous-ness, e.g., Animal Farm [My Review].

Cons) When the author is not capable enough to capture the laws behind what is happening in the real-world society, then the novel can be misleading.

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What can readers do) Books, in essence, are about information passing. It is a collaboration between authors and readers. After the authors put the above efforts, the readers should try their best to "decode" the message that the authors want to send along.

Caution) I should take care of my induction process, and do not overgeneralize. One way is to find similarity of this story with other facts I observe in real world or history. Another way is to reason and check the validity of the patterns I extract.

In the meantime, feel free to set free our sensors, and over-generate some hypothesized patterns. We can filter them later on.

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Takeaways from this book) Below seems to be some patterns that this book wants to imply:

- Social contract of a village in the context of 1900s China, a rural province with relatively rich soil to do agriculture. E.g., having 1-2 big families to lead the village, promote Confucius moral values, keep some superstitious beliefs and keep the rituals.
The emergence of local leaders, i.e., 中国乡绅.
Related books to inspire social contract: The Social Contract, The Spirit of the Laws, 近代中国土匪实录 [My Review], 血酬定律 [My Review].

- The stability of such village is weak under perturbations (since culture and norms usually require i.i.d. and overfits to the context, as Montesquieu observes), e.g., wars, endless taxes, robbery, pandemic, starvation, etc. In war time, temporarily, military is the only dependence that one can rely on. Related facts: The Death of Woman Wang [My Review], 饥饿的盛世 [My Review]

- Individual desires are always there, e.g., sex with non-partners, indulging in drugs.

- Selfish, dirty traits are also there, e.g., greedily wanting the property of the other family, jealously wanting to make the others less advantaged.

Quote: “主人公六娶六丧,神秘的序曲预示着不祥。一个家庭两代子孙,为争夺白鹿原的统治代代争斗不已,上演了一幕幕惊心动魄的话剧;巧取风水地,恶施美人计,孝子为匪,亲翁杀媳,兄弟相煎,情人反目……大革命,日寇入侵,三年内战,白鹿原翻云覆雨,王旗变幻,家仇国恨,交错缠结,冤冤相报代代不已……”

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Related books:
- About social contract in villages: 乡土中国, 中国乡绅
- To keep social contract, people must do lots of work with social relationships: 金翼, 面子与人情.
- About the perturbance that ruins stability: 活着
- About the natural disasters that make people struggle on the survival line: The Death of Women Wang

Remotely related books:
- About social contract in other subgroups of the society: 红楼梦, 金粉世家, 潜规则, 大宅门
- About the 1700s Chinese society: 饥饿的盛世
- Books that also use fictions to reflect the real world: Animal Farm, 1984, 黄金时代,青铜时代,白银时代,黑铁时代.

Nice summary of this book:
- http://culture.ifeng.com/shendu/speci...
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7 reviews
September 26, 2025
Bạch lộc nguyên của Trần Trung Thực. Tác phẩm này đạt giải thưởng văn học Mao Thuẫn lần thứ 2 (giải thưởng văn học danh giá nhất của Trung Quốc). Tác phẩm hay và được biết đến vì chuyển thể ra phim khá nổi tiếng. Độc giả Trung Quốc thường đùa rắng muốn biết thành thị Trung Quốc như nào thì đọc Phế đô, còn muôn biêt nông thôn Trung Quôc ra làm sao thì đọc Bạch lộc nguyên.
77 reviews
October 16, 2023
很长篇的著作。很神奇。里面的故事一环扣一环,让你停不下来。我很难想象,生活在那个时代的人们都会经历什么。动荡的年代,人们对生活到底会带有多少期待。
3 reviews
December 14, 2023
闹饥荒出嫁女子被吓疯的故事也让我也要吓疯了。
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3 reviews
January 13, 2024
Ótima leitura . Uma odisseia pela história complexa e intrigante da China. Costurada em uma pequena terra, contada através da geração de uma família! Uma leitura muito interessante e envolvente
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111 reviews1 follower
July 25, 2024
终于读了,然而女性角色的塑造终不如人意。
20 reviews
October 12, 2024
We are all just people living in waves of social movements striving to find a balance between our own value and social expectations.

Would be better if female characters are not just here for sex.
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99 reviews
December 27, 2024
荡气回肠,在平和的叙事中,把历史的宏大和家族个人的兴衰描绘得如此动人心魄,在赞叹中哀叹,在哀叹里又品出了人生的百般滋味,确实是一部神作。
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57 reviews
March 2, 2025
I can't believe I read this book when I was a middle schooler, so like 12, 13? DO NOT READ THIS BOOK WHNE UR THAT YOUNG. THE END. UMMMMMMM. The show is good.
28 reviews
March 19, 2025
这个故事既奇幻又现实,白嘉轩似乎即会耍心眼子又为人正直。讲本书来讲感觉故事特别散,一个故事读完便没有心思读下一个故事了,也许这是我的问题。
书中描写的乡土人间是真的优美,这种农民劳作的图景是我们现今在难见到的。
272 reviews1 follower
September 19, 2025
不知为何,如此大篇幅的作品却缺乏应有的沧桑感与沉重感。作者的讲故事能力不错,人物塑造也鲜活,但总感觉缺少一些应有的元素。
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9 reviews
December 10, 2025
绝对是五星!简评八个字:荡气回肠,史诗叙事。勾勒的是具体可感的关中群像,每一个人物都让人又爱又恨,毫不扁平。时代幕布之下,各方势力倾轧,太多的经典桥段呈现的是逝去的宗族与真文人风骨,还有记忆中的民俗,陈老追溯的是或然的历史,即便不是“真相”,却也呈现出最好的“乡土文学”风貌。
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84 reviews1 follower
September 2, 2025
看之前:久闻大名
看期间:欲罢不能
看完后:意犹未尽

我得回味一下,之后再来补写感想,目前简单粗暴的感想有二:

1. 中国那会儿真是乱世。民不聊生,兵荒马乱,两党之争搞得你死我活,相煎何太急啊。
2. 农村真是不把女人当人看(现在嘛…也是一言难尽)。

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ok我来补感想了:

清末民初,一个破败的帝国摇摇欲坠,大厦将倾,新的太阳尚未升起,而远处,日本军国主义的铁蹄声在逼近。黎明前的天空是最黑暗的,中国要面临的是硝烟四起乌烟瘴气跌宕起伏的50年。在乱世中这片古老黄土地上的农民们的悲欢和命运交织出来的故事,就是《白鹿原》。它是一部民族的史诗,以陕西关中平原的一隅村庄为舞台,透过白家和鹿家两个家族的恩仇纠葛,写出一个个鲜活而复杂的人物群像。这是十分典型的以小窥大:以一个村描述一个时代的变迁,以两个家族的兴衰反映一个国的历史,以各个人物表达新旧思想的交锋和国共斗争。

读完这本书我有点理解了中国人骨子里对土地的情结和执着。即使是在最乱的年代,书里的人物(像黑娃)最终也渴望回到原上。土地是他们生存的根和情感的寄托。帝国会倾塌,党派会更替,甚至家族也会败落,但土地永远在那里,等着人回来。

书里女性角色的命运尤其沉重。田小娥、冷家女儿(兆鹏媳妇)、孝文媳妇,白嘉轩娶过的六个媳妇,以及还有那些因未生育而不配入族谱的女人们,在封建礼教、绝对男权的社会下,她们始终未被当成一个个“人”,只是欲望和秩序的牺牲品。笔墨浓重的田小娥自不必说,哪怕是书里新时代女性的代表白灵到最后也成了共产党内斗中的牺牲品。

还有一点我想吐槽的是女性角色在书里往往是要么“天生知性”(比如白孝文的媳妇在新婚之夜就已经知道怎么进行性事,而白孝文则被描写成一个笨拙纯洁对性一无所知的人,借以凸显他的“正派”),要么“长期渴性”(比如书中让兆鹏媳妇因长期守活寡而在性压抑中逐渐疯癫,我就想请问男的是不是以为女人都跟他们一样没了性活不了)。她们承担着引诱和性启蒙的角色,when in actuality 我们都知道男人才是那个时刻渴性又恨女的那一方。

最后想要记录一下让我有点震撼的一段:“(白孝文的)…整个面部器官都努力鼓出来,鼓出的鼻梁儿,鼓出的嘴巴,鼓出的眼球以及鼓出的眉骨,尽管年纪小小却已显出那种以鼓出为表征的雏形…”。这是在形容白孝文的长相。读到这的时候我心里陡然一震:这这这…这不就是我的长相吗!我长得像我爸,我爸像他的妈妈,而奶奶那一支就是地道的陕西人。突然有一种文学照见了血脉的奇妙感觉。尽管我是在北京出生在新加坡长大,去过陕西的次数屈指可数,但即使身隔千里,即使我没有关于那里的记忆,我身上依然有着那片黄土地的烙印。实在太神奇了。
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52 reviews6 followers
June 29, 2023
虎头蛇尾 写农村生活的部分很好 抗日战争开始的时候就开始畏手畏脚 反右扩大化敢写一点点值得多一颗星 国共反目的部分开始就很难看了 文革期间白孝文应该不会有好日子过的 可惜作者不敢写了 陈忠实想写陕西农村版的《百年孤独》可惜笔力不足 世界上也只有一本《百年孤独》
太厌女了 所以只值一颗星
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