How to evaluate Bai Jiaxuan in the novel White Deer Plain?

In my mind, Bai Jiaxuan is an extremely complicated figure, which cannot be summarized in one word. On the one hand, he embodies the tough guy spirit, integrity and kindness; On the other hand, it also reflects the reactionary and conservative nature of China's traditional moral norms. Generally speaking, Bai Jiaxuan is a tragic figure, and his tragedy is so profound and unique.

Traditional justice

The actor's acting skills show Bai Jiaxuan to a great extent.

Bai Jiaxuan is a typical landlord who grew up with traditional education. China's traditional culture and morality have obvious duality, among which there are many excellent factors to promote people's integrity; There are also many negative and backward things, such as deep-rooted feudalism, self-enclosed, conservative and narrow-minded, and often struggle for length in the snail's nest. But Bai Jiaxuan embodies more positive aspects of traditional culture. He is honest, kind and positive.

Traditional conservatism

But Bai Jiaxuan is not a pure good man, and of course no one is a pure good man. He also has many shortcomings, such as cunning and greed, and many negative qualities of traditional culture. For the sake of wealth and wealth, and the happiness of future generations, he did not hesitate to replace the slope like white deer grass in Luzilin's house with his own.

Complex image

Bai Jiaxuan is a complicated figure and a contradictory combination. He is not only different from the images of landlords such as Master Lu, Feng Laolan and Gui in China's modern and contemporary literature, but also different from the images of farmers such as Zhu Laozhong and Liang Shengbao. We can't judge him by good and bad, good and evil, positive and negative, let alone analyze him from the perspective of class.

abstract

Bai Jiaxuan is a person bound by traditional rules. For thousands of years, all the people in China, including farmers who plow fields, have been immersed in this norm. This is the mainstream of China culture, and Bai Jiaxuan is undoubtedly the representative of this mainstream culture. The defect of this culture is to suppress human feelings and humanity, which can bring up a group of people with perseverance, integrity and kindness, but at the cost of killing beautiful human feelings and humanity. Therefore, it cannot cultivate people who act according to their true nature.