"white Deer" And The Traditional Confucian Culture

Chen Zhongshi created the novel of Bailuyuan in order to reconsider traditional Confucian culture and to construct the contemporary culture. He tried to develop the entire society by the elementary social groups, and described Bailuyuan"s change in the first half of 20th century. It enabled us to have the brand-new understanding to the history of that phase, and to have wondrous discover to the Confucian culture.The article is composed of two sections.Tn the first section, taking the village of Baluyuan into consideration wholly realize the operational mechanism and the decline of traditional culture. In the second section, I analyzes the cultural meaning of the major figures in Bailuyuan. The author has not answered how to construct culture from the past to the present. The enlightenment the novel giving to us only is that We can only come from the traditional culture, but we must go out from the traditional culture.