This curtain, this glass window, this room became very lovely in front of her eyes. She stood on the stone steps in front of the window, looking up at the white gauze curtain without blinking. She didn't make a sound for fear of disturbing the people inside. After a period of time, the white gauze curtains gradually showed illusory colors and became more beautiful.
China writer Ba Jin's novel Home is the first part of the Riptide Trilogy. Home is considered as one of Ba Jin's representative works, and it was selected as one of the top 100 novels of China in the 20th century (No.8).
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Creation background
Home was also written by Ba Jin with the encouragement of his brother Li Yaomei. 1July, 929, Li Yaomei came to Shanghai from Sichuan to visit Ba Jin and talked about various things at home. He was angry and distressed. Ba Jin asked him to write a novel reflecting the life of a big family and the unfortunate experiences of young men and women at home. Eldest brother expressed his support and then wrote an encouraging letter: "I agree if you want to write, and I like it very much." I bow to you now. "
Theme of the work
In Home, there are Mei's melancholy death, Jui-chueh's tragic fate, Ming-feng's tragedy of throwing herself into the lake and her forced marriage. All these young women's misfortunes are the result of feudal system, ethics and superstition persecution.
Through these stories, the writer's critical edge points not only to the old ethics, but also to absolutism as the core of feudal rule. The real significance of the tragedy of love and marriage he described is not only to advocate free love, but to awaken young people's consciousness, enlighten and call on them to break with feudal families.
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