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China writer Ba Jin's novel "Home" is the first part of "Riptide Trilogy", and it was selected as the top 100 novels in the 20th century in China (No.8). The other two are Spring and Autumn Annals, and Home is considered as one of Ba Jin's representative works. It was first serialized by 193 1 in The Times, and the original article was titled Riptide. Ming Kai Bookstore published the first booklet of Home in May, 1933.
It describes the sin and decay of a big feudal family in Chengdu, Sichuan in the early 1920s, accuses the feudal system of destroying life, and praises the anti-feudal struggle and democratic awakening of the younger generation.
The works are also unique in language. Ba Jin's works have always been concise and vivid, fluent and unrestrained, with strong emotional color. Home also reflects the unique language style of Ba Jin's works.
In the works, the author is full of emotions, whether writing people, narrating or even analyzing the characters' psychology, so that readers can appreciate the fate of the characters and experience the author's joys and sorrows together, which makes the works have particularly touching emotional power.
This book is one of the Riptide Trilogy, the masterpiece of Ba Jin, a literary master, and an outstanding realistic masterpiece in the history of modern literature in China.
The novel is set in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, which is in the stagnation period of the May 4th Movement. It truly describes the decline and differentiation of the feudal family Gao Mansion with four generations living under one roof, exposes the decadent essence of feudal autocracy, accuses the feudal family system, feudal ethics and superstition, and praises the spirit of the younger generation to fight against it.
Ba Jin said, "I don't want to write a special history for our family. What I want to write is the history of ordinary feudal families. The protagonist here should be what we often see in those families. I want to write about how this family inevitably went to the road of collapse and to the grave of self-digging.
I want to write about the struggles, struggles and tragedies involved. I want to write about how a lovely young life suffered, struggled and eventually died ... that's why I wrote home.
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The influence of the work
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, which to some extent inherited the structural pattern of father-son opposition in Home.
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.
The Yue Opera adapted from this work 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.