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Chapter 84 Talking about the Female Image in "White Deer Plain"—Bai Zhao

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    Chapter 84 "A Brief Discussion on the Female Image of <Bailuyuan>—Bai Zhaoshi"

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    Bai Zhaoshi is the mother of the hero Bai Jiaxuan in "White Deer Plain", and she is already a middle-aged mother image as soon as she appears on the stage.  She lived a long time, but like many rural women in "White Deer Plain", her name can only be called by a combination of her husband's surname and her maiden's surname.

    However, Bai Zhaoshi is a very offensive female character!  Although she is a woman, she deeply respects the old patriarchal society in her bones; she is not only willing to be enslaved, but also acts as an accomplice in enslaving other women, but this is destined to not be a woman who dares to resist like Tian Xiaoe.

    When Bai Jiaxuan was young, he "defeated" six wives in a row, which led many people to think that he was a wife, unless the family was really poor, otherwise he would never marry his daughter to such a rich man even in terms of family background.  family.  But Bai Jiaxuan still buried six women himself!  Even he himself was discouraged, unwilling to allow himself to harm other people's daughters, but his mother, Mrs. Bai Zhao, said coldly: "Women are just paper for windows, just replace it when it is worn out."  It made me shudder for a moment!  It can be seen that as a woman, Bai Zhao herself extremely despises the status of the same sex, even more vicious and ruthless than many men who despise women.

    Although the Bai Zhao family is not too bad in general, she does have a bit of ruthlessness towards foreign women.  When her daughter-in-law Xiancao was heartbroken by the death of her newborn child, she acted indifferently, skillfully buried the dead child in the cattle pen at home, and used those tender flesh and bones as waste for cattle and sheep This is a story on the White Deer Plain.  It is a well-known practice, so the bones of certain children are buried in the cattle and sheep pens of every family.  In the words of Mrs. Bai Zhao: "People who are destined not to be born in the mortal world." These words seem indifferent, but they also reflect that in the old society and villages with backward medical conditions, most people are more concerned about human life because of the low survival rate of human beings.  A callous and callous status quo.

    In addition, the Bai Zhao family is also a typical representative of patriarchy.  In the TV series, she did not allow her granddaughter Bai Ling to eat steamed bread, but left it to her two grandsons. She also tried every means to bind Bai Ling's feet because she followed the traditional bad habits.  Perhaps readers can understand a little bit of her narrow conception caused by her low level of cognition, but when facing her granddaughter-in-law, she vividly shows the cruelty of a wicked mother-in-law!  For example, she knew that her grandson, Bai Xiaowen, had something to do, but she pushed all the faults on her grandson-in-law, swearing at each other, intimidating and threatening, if it wasn't for her daughter-in-law Xiancao and Bai Jiaxuan who taught Bai Xiaowen a lesson in private, she wouldn't know that this innocent grandson-in-law would still  What a sin!  Obviously, as a rural woman, the mother-in-law Xiancao is much more kind than Bai Zhao, which is enough to reflect the strength of Bai Zhao's personality.  And Bai Zhao's image is just a microcosm of many pedantic and old-fashioned women. One can imagine how many young women in the old society met such a ruthless mother-in-law like Bai Zhao after marriage

    The most ironic thing is that Bai Zhao's death in the end was caused by her alone.  Since his grandson Bai Xiaoyi was barren, Bai Jiaxuan let his daughter-in-law and Heiwa's younger brother Tuwa bear a child, and then regarded the child as his grandson.  Only Bai Jiaxuan, his daughter-in-law, and the arranger, Mrs. Bai Zhao, knew about this dishonorable matter. Seeing that his granddaughter-in-law was about to give birth, Mrs. Bai Zhao couldn't help being even more annoyed, and died soon after.  Such an ending makes people dumbfounded, and is even more astonished at the objectification of women in the old days!  Bai Jiaxuan only wanted to cover up his son's infertility, but he didn't take into account the wishes of his daughter-in-law. Or more sadly, the daughter-in-law accepted her father-in-law's arrangement as a matter of course, which shows that she has been completely enslaved by feudal ethics in terms of ideology!

    Fiction is an art form after all, and there is no shortage of jokes.  However, most of the women described in "White Deer Plain" are too ill-fated, and Mr. Chen also used a collective method to show the social status quo of most women in the old era who were severely oppressed.  And the perpetrators are women themselves!  Maybe there is indeed a lot of revenge-like pleasure in it, because Mrs. Bai Zhao was once young and persecuted But she did not follow the idea of ??"do not do to others what you don't want to be done to you", but  It is to impose the suffering that one has suffered on the next generation of women. Over time, a vicious circle is formed. While women become victims, they are also slowly cultivating a new generation of perpetrators

    ? April 21, 2020 (remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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