White deer plain is a novel written by writer Chen for six years, which was first published on 1993. Chen was born in Jiangcun village under Bailuyuan in the eastern suburb. When he was young, he dug wild vegetables and collected firewood in this yellow land. Chen is familiar with the spring, summer, autumn and winter of Bailuyuan and the rise and fall of vegetation.

From 1988, Chen settled his wife and elders in the city, went to his ancestral home in the country alone, and devoted himself to writing. After four years of hard work, Chen has to compete with various characters in his mind every day. The tangled mood makes the wrinkles on Chen's forehead as deep as the ravines on the Loess Plateau. On March 25th, 1992, White Deer Plain with nearly 500,000 words finally came to an end.

Brief Introduction to the Content of White Deer Plain

"White Deer Plain" takes Bai Jiaxuan as the narrative core, and the two white deer families organize the plot with contradictions and entanglements. It reflects the patriarchal clan system and Confucian ethics represented by Bai Jiaxuan, and tells the story between the Baijia and Lujia families in Bailuyuan village with the change of the times and the persistence and decline in political movements as narrative clues.

The Bai family followed the patriarch of the village. Bai Jiaxuan, the hero, has married seven wives in his life, and the last one has been with him all his life. He has three children and one daughter, namely Bai Xiaowen, Bai Xiaowu, Bai Xiaoyi and Bai Ling. The novel mainly tells the lives of Bai Xiaowen, Lu and Heiwa.