A synopsis of the story of Home

China writer Ba Jin's novel "Home" describes the sin and decay of a big feudal family in Chengdu, Sichuan in the early 1920s, accusing the feudal system of destroying life and praising the younger generation's anti-feudal struggle and democratic awakening.

The work is based on the May 4th wave which spread to Chengdu, Sichuan, which is closed inland, and truly describes the decline and fall history of Gaos, a representative feudal family. In the writer's own words, what he "wants to show readers is to describe a picture of the past ten years".

On the surface, the high giants are famous for their poems and rituals, but behind this scene, they are infighting, infighting, decadent, filthy and shameless. Those defenders, represented by Mr. Gao and Ke Ming, tried their best to maintain the moral codes and family precepts and suppress all new things, even at the expense of young people, in order to maintain this family, which was the pillar of the feudal system and was facing collapse. This has deepened the contradiction between the old and the new, between the ruling forces and the oppressed, and caused great pain to young people.

Chueh-hsin, Chueh-min and Chueh-hui have different ideological personalities and life paths. Several young couples-Chueh-hsin and Qian Meifen, Li Ruijue, Chueh-min and Qin, Chueh-hui and Ming-feng-are all involved in love and marriage. Wrote about their different experiences; After writing a student petition, Chueh-hui was locked up and the mutiny was shocking. Ming-feng, Mei-fen and Jui-chueh died one after another, and Chueh-hui divorced and left. ...

Through the stories of three brothers, Chueh-hsin, Chueh-min and Chueh-hui, and the stories of various characters and relatives in each room, this paper depicts a picture of the life of a big family, shows the typical form of the life of a big feudal family, and truly records the historical process of the decline, corruption and final collapse of the big feudal family.

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The mode of telling family stories in Home is very typical in the enlightenment discourse, which has played a strong demonstration role in the later family novel creation. Criticizing and completely denying the traditional family system and feudal ethics has also become a lasting and powerful theme of this kind of novels. For example, Duanmu Hongliang's Horqin Banner Grassland, Lu Ling's The Son of the Rich Man, Mao Dun's Frosty Leaves as Red as February Flowers, Lao She's Teahouse and Camel Xiangzi are all the same, and the structural pattern of father-son antagonism in the family has been inherited to a certain extent.

Since the appearance of new literature, there have been many creations with the theme of exposing the old family ethics. However, in the form of a long series of novels and such a huge scale, the feudal family was described systematically and deeply for the first time in modern times, and Home and Spring and Autumn Annals played a very important role in the history of modern literature.

According to this work, Yue Opera premiered in 2003, starring Zhao Zhigang, Danyang Ping and Sun Zhijun. ?

1On October 25th, Feng Ming, an opera adapted by Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, met the audience for the first time. Feng Ming is directed by Li, a famous Peking Opera performer, and Gao Yufa is the artistic director.

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