Chapter 83 "On the Female Image of <Bailuyuan>¡ª¡ªTian Xiaoe"
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"White Deer Plain" is a book that I had the honor to read in my college days. It is indeed a bit late in terms of time, but when I read it, I felt a feeling of resentment. Since the author of this book, Mr. Chen Zhongshi, is also the honorary dean of our school¡¯s School of Humanities, the school also encourages us to read it actively. He also introduced this book in detail when he was studying the history of modern Chinese literature.
? When it comes to "White Deer Plain", apart from the more than half a century of grievances and enmities between the Bailu family, the female images in it are also worth discussing. Although many women don't even have a serious name until the end, they are basically "Bai Zhao", "Lu Huishi" and so on, but many of the female images portrayed in them are lively and vivid, with distinctive personalities, which are impressive profound.
The most famous one is Tian Xiao'e. Although she is a notorious woman brought by Heiwa (Lu Zhaoqian) from other places, since she came to Bailuyuan, she has been despised by her excessive beauty and controversial past. The ill-fated fate even had a huge impact on the entire Bailuyuan.
In the book, Tian Xiao'e is directly referred to as a "rotten woman" because she was not brought back by Hei Wa in an upright way. Although Tian Xiao'e was born in a scholarly family, she was sold to a seventy-year-old Guo Juren as a concubine because of her father's greed for money. Moreover, Tian Xiaoe's status after marriage can be described as extremely miserable, without human rights, and is often beaten and abused by her husband and big-wife women! She even used her as a tool for "soaking dates" For this reason, she began to secretly retaliate. After getting acquainted with Hei Wa, a long-term worker newly hired by Guo Juren, she secretly fell in love with him. They paraded around the streets until they were sent back to her natal home. Fortunately, the two met again. Tian Xiaoe, who became the target of public criticism, followed Heiwa to his hometown of Bailuyuan, but she was still not seen by others because of her past, and could only be squeezed in a broken kiln. It's hard to survive here. Later, Heiwa was forced to flee because of the failure of the "Nongxie" and became a bandit. The lonely and helpless Tian Xiaoe became the prey of other sanctimonious hypocrites in Bailuyuan. Instigated by Lu Zilin, she completely degenerates and seduces Bai Jiaxuan's eldest son Bai Xiaowen, and is finally killed by Heiwa's father Lu San one night, and even after her death, the body of Bailuyuan is not discovered until the body stinks. But the people here were not even willing to give her a coffin, they only sealed her cave. And when there was a plague in Bailuyuan, people decided that she was the culprit, and they dug her up again, turned her bones into ashes, and built a "monster suppression tower" on her cave dwelling
The above is Tian Xiaoe's life experience. Although it is not very dramatic, it is extremely shocking! Especially the outrageous act of desecrating her body after her death made people feel that the feudal forces were cruel and ruthless, even the dead would not be spared! But what really killed Tian Xiaoe was not her father Lusan's shuttle, but this man-eating old society! It is the malicious oppression and brutal destruction of women by feudal ethics for thousands of years!
Tian Xiaoe can be regarded as one of the most miserable women in "White Deer Plain". The tortures imposed on her weak body all came from the decadent and dark patriarchal society at that time. Perhaps only Heiwa and Bai Xiaowen had sincere feelings for her, but in that turbulent era when there was chaos and starvation, the so-called sincerity seemed extremely pale and powerless. But the hostility from the outside world is real. For example, Bai Jiaxuan, the patriarch of Bailuyuan, knew that other men in Bailuyuan were plotting against Tian Xiaoe, but still insisted on punishing Tian Xiaoe as a victim. The purpose was to "shock people's hearts". Bai Jiaxuan never admitted that Tian Xiao'e was from Bailuyuan, and forced her and Hei Wa to live in an abandoned cave dwelling in the wilderness from the very beginning; but when it came time for the "justice and awe-inspiring" punishment, Tian Xiao'e still had to bear it innocently! And when there is a famine and food distribution, such good things will naturally not come to the helpless Tian Xiaoe, what a "double standard"! All of them reveal the cruel persecution and indifference to women by the stubborn feudal forces.
In fact, Tian Xiaoe's tragedy has been doomed since she married Guo Juren that she will not even be able to obtain the happiness of an ordinary poor woman in this life! For her, it is an unattainable luxury for Ming Media to marry, and she is willing to be with a poor husband even if it suffers hardships! But the cannibalistic old society couldn't even fulfill this poor wish for her!
At the same time, Tian Xiao'e is also worthy of admiration, because she does not accept her fate and is born with a spirit of rebellion. From the fact that she used her own urine to soak Guo Juren's dates, it is amazing! It can be seen from her daring to have a relationship with Hei Wa that she yearns for a peaceful and stable life, even if she suffers hardships with a poor and white Hei Wa, she can bear it with tenacity, but God is too cruel to her! It made her miserable all her life, and made her survive in the conspiracies of countless real villains in Bailuyuan, and she was finally killed; whether it was the last "big" she uttered to her father Lu San before she died in the TV series or the novel after killing herself, let her People feel both shocking and heartbroken
April 20, 2020 (remember this website URL: www.hlnovel.com