《 Báilùyuán 》 xiě le Bái jiā hé Lù jiā bàn ge shìjì de ēnyuàn.
White Deer Plain follows half a century of feuds between the Bai and Lu families.
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culture
It won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997 and became a film in 2012 and a TV series in 2017. The households of 白嘉轩 and 鹿子霖 live through the fall of the Qing, the warlords, the war with Japan and the civil war, and the book is known for its frank Shaanxi village speech.
history
The real 白鹿原 rises between the Ba and Chan rivers southeast of 西安; its name goes back to a legend of a white deer seen there in the Zhou dynasty. 陈忠实 grew up at its foot.
