White Lu Yuan

Author: Chen Zhongshi
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a representative work of the contemporary renowned writer Chen Zhongshi. The novel is a magnificent epic of the 50-year transformation of the Weihe Plain, a vivid and harrowing scroll depicting the colorful and shocking life of rural China. The protagonist marries and loses his wife six times, and the mysterious prologue foreshadows misfortune. Two generations of a family, for generations, fight for control over the White Deer Plain, staging a series of thrilling dramas: cunningly seizing auspicious land, maliciously using the beauty trap, the filial son becoming a bandit, the father-in-law killing his daughter-in-law, brothers turning against each other, lovers turning against each other. The Great Revolution, Japanese invasion, and three-year civil war—White Deer Plain sees clouds turning and winds shifting, flags changing, family feuds and national hatred intertwining, grievances and reprisals continuing from generation to generation. The ancient land trembles in the throes of rebirth. The profound and profound ideological content, the complex and changing personalities, the dramatic and winding plot, and the brilliant and colorful customs and traditions form the distinctive artistic characteristics and the shocking realism of the work. This book is a representative work of the contemporary renowned writer Chen Zhongshi. The novel is a magnificent epic of the 50-year transformation of the Weihe Plain, a vivid and harrowing scroll depicting the colorful and shocking life of rural China. The protagonist marries and loses his wife six times, and the mysterious prologue foreshadows misfortune. Two generations of a family, for generations, fight for control over the White Deer Plain, staging a series of thrilling dramas: cunningly seizing auspicious land, maliciously using the beauty trap, the filial son becoming a bandit, the father-in-law killing his daughter-in-law, brothers turning against each other, lovers turning against each other. The Great Revolution, Japanese invasion, and three-year civil war—White Deer Plain sees clouds turning and winds shifting, flags changing, family feuds and national hatred intertwining, grievances and reprisals continuing from generation to generation. The ancient land trembles in the throes of rebirth.