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 "excerpt": "White Deer Plain (白鹿原) is Wang Quan'an's 2012 film adapting Chen Zhongshi's Mao Dun Prize novel about the Bai and Lu families in Shaanxi; Berlin Silver Bear, multiple censored cuts, 2017 TV remake.",
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 "markdown": "# White Deer Plain (白鹿原)\n\n**White Deer Plain** (白鹿原) is a 2012 Chinese epic drama film directed and co-written by Wang Quan'an, adapted from [Chen Zhongshi](https://www.edgepedia.org/chen-zhongshi)'s Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name. It dramatizes the feuds of the Bai and Lu families on the Guanzhong plain of Shaanxi Province from the fall of the [Qing dynasty](https://www.edgepedia.org/qing-dynasty) through the early Republic era, and it took roughly two decades of aborted attempts before reaching the screen.<sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/film/about/archive/detail/771)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Source novel | Chen Zhongshi's *White Deer Plain*, a roughly 500,000-character novel published in 1992, winner of the 4th Mao Dun Literature Prize<sup>[3](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1462693)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://image.chinawriter.com.cn/wyb2011-14pdf/2012/wyb1bWYB1BLMC12213.pdf)</sup> |\n| Director and writers | Wang Quan'an (director, co-writer, editor); Lu Wei wrote earlier drafts; original author Chen Zhongshi credited as source<sup>[5](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2206639/)</sup> |\n| Principal cast | Zhang Fengyi as Bai Jiaxuan, Zhang Yuqi as Tian Xiao'e, Duan Yihong as Heiwa, Wu Gang as Lu Zilin, Liu Wei as Lu San, Cheng Taishen as Bai Xiaowen, Guo Tao as Lu Zhaopeng<sup>[5](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2206639/)</sup> |\n| Release | Premiered 15 February 2012 at the Berlin International Film Festival; mainland release 15 September 2012 after a two-day delay<sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-12/4176322.shtml)</sup> |\n| Honors | Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution (photography) at the 62nd Berlinale; Golden Bear nomination; Golden Horse nominations for adapted screenplay and best supporting actor<sup>[2](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/film/about/archive/detail/771)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup> |\n| Versions | 220-minute preview cut, 188-minute Berlin cut, 175-minute Hong Kong cut, and a mainland public release of about 154 to 156 minutes<sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://ent.sina.cn/film/chinese/2012-04-06/detail-icczmvun2145050.d.html)</sup> |\n| Box office | About 130 million yuan accumulated by 11 October 2012, third among 2012 domestic art films<sup>[8](https://baike.sogou.com/m/fullLemma?lid=2338969)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nWhite Deer Village near Xi'an, northwestern China, around 1911: the Qing dynasty is collapsing, and the village has changed little in centuries. Two families dominate the plain, the Bais and the Lus, bound by intermarriage, shared threshing grounds, and a rivalry neither side will name. Bai Jiaxuan (Zhang Fengyi) is the clan leader, a man whose authority rests on the ancestral hall and the ritual calendar of planting and harvest. His counterpart, Lu Zilin, serves as head of the village, and the two old men spend decades scoring petty victories off each other even as the world outside their fields disintegrates.\n\nThe first crack in the order comes from within. Hei Wa (Duan Yihong), the son of Bai Jiaxuan's hired laborer Lu San, refuses to accept a life of kneeling. He runs off to the city, returns radicalized by the revolution, and organizes the village's tenant farmers, even burning the threshing ground in an act of open rebellion. The uprising collapses, Hei Wa flees again, and the village's hierarchy reasserts itself with a brutality that shows what the respectable order was always built on.\n\nInto this strained world comes Tian Xiao'e ([Zhang Yuqi](https://www.edgepedia.org/zhang-yuqi)), a bold young woman married into the village as an unwelcome outsider. The villagers shun her, and the film's middle stretch follows her almost exclusively: isolated in her cave dwelling, she is preyed upon by the men who claim to uphold the village's morality. The mayor of the village comes to her cave and rapes her, then accuses her of illicit sex and has her savagely whipped as punishment for what he did to her. Later, in the film's most bitter irony, she seduces the very man who administered the whipping, the one person in the village who had shown her any attention at all.\n\nAs the years pass, warlord rule gives way to Nationalist administration, famine strikes the plain when the harvest fails, and the sons of both families drift into opposing political camps. Bai Jiaxuan watches his authority erode in stages, outmaneuvered by Lu Zilin and abandoned by a younger generation that no longer kneels in the ancestral hall. The film ends in 1938, short of the novel's full span, as Japanese reconnaissance planes appear over the plain and bomb the village, the war that will consume China finally arriving at the edge of the wheat.\n\n**The film's signature image is wheat, and its most memorable sequence is the harvest.** Wang Quan'an opens the film with an extended shot of undulating wheat fields, photographed by Lutz Reitemeier at sunrise and sunset across the seasons, and returns to the fields again and again as the measure of the village's life. Farmers pause from the harvest to noisily slurp bowls of wheat noodles, a rowdy, earthy scene of communal appetite, and the grain itself frames the film's one moment of tenderness, an amorous encounter on a wheat bale. When the harvest fails near the end and the plain threatens starvation, the same golden landscape that carried the film's beauty becomes the instrument of its cruelty, the fields that fed the village now watching it starve.\n\n### Characters\n\nBai Jiaxuan (Zhang Fengyi) is the clan patriarch, granite in posture and principle, whose authority visibly costs him as the century demands compromises his body refuses to make. Zhang Fengyi's commanding physical presence gives the film its spine.\n\nTian Xiao'e (Zhang Yuqi) is the outsider bride whose presence unsettles every man she touches and exposes the cruelty beneath the village's respectable face. The film's final hour belongs almost entirely to her, which critics found unbalanced the story.\n\nHei Wa (Duan Yihong) is the laborer's son who refuses to kneel, running from farmhand to rebel soldier to broken man. His anger is played not as ideology but as hunger and humiliation, and his defeat is the film's bleakest truth.\n\nLu Zilin ([Wu Gang](https://www.edgepedia.org/wu-gang)) is the village head and Bai Jiaxuan's lifelong rival, the two old men ruining each other out of pride while the world ruins them both.\n\nLu Zhaopeng (Guo Tao) and Bai Xiaowen (Chen Taisheng) are the two families' sons, whose paths into the armies and politics of the era carry the national upheaval down into the village.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe source novel, winner of China's Mao Dun Literature Prize, was blacklisted for many years because of its explicit sex scenes, and the film went through its own reckoning with the censors: after shooting wrapped, it spent a year in the censorship process before completion, and the mainland release was delayed so the sex scenes could be cut. Even the nudity-free version ran nearly three hours, and critics noted that the cutting showed, with whole arcs introduced and dropped and the ending arriving in 1938, omitting the novel's postwar civil war material. The film's handling of Tian Xiao'e drew particular debate: some critics saw her storyline, in which the village's moral order effectively requires her destruction, as the film's most disturbing argument, while others felt the adaptation flattened a complex woman into a catalyst for the men around her.\n\n## The source novel\n\nChen Zhongshi's novel *White Deer Plain* was published in 1992 and spans roughly half a century in the lives of two families, the Bais and the Lus, on the White Deer Plain of Shaanxi, weaving their private fortunes into the upheavals of early twentieth-century China.<sup>[3](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1462693)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://dflt.qdu.edu.cn/__local/C/62/60/60273F01E1695939404FAD7CB6B_56994E22_29A7C3.pdf)</sup> The book won the 4th [Mao Dun Literature Prize](https://www.edgepedia.org/mao-dun-literature-prize), one of China's leading literary awards, and sold more than 2 million legitimate copies, with continued printing of over 100,000 copies a year two decades after publication.<sup>[3](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1462693)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://image.chinawriter.com.cn/wyb2011-14pdf/2012/wyb1bWYB1BLMC12213.pdf)</sup>\n\nThe novel's scale is what made filming difficult. Its narrative runs from the late Qing to the founding of the People's Republic, its cast of major characters exceeds twenty, and its themes include clan ethics, revolution, and sexuality. Chen Zhongshi himself said repeatedly that the form best suited to the material was the television serial, because film, stage drama, dance drama, and Qinqiang opera are all constrained by time and space.<sup>[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://dflt.qdu.edu.cn/__local/C/62/60/60273F01E1695939404FAD7CB6B_56994E22_29A7C3.pdf)</sup>\n\n## A two-decade path to production\n\nFilm rights changed hands repeatedly. Within a month of the novel's publication in 1992, director Wu Tianming, then in the United States, asked Chen Zhongshi through his brother for the adaptation rights; [Xie Jin](https://www.edgepedia.org/xie-jin)'s company also inquired, but Chen had already authorized Wu, and that version was never made. [Zhang Yimou](https://www.edgepedia.org/zhang-yimou) and Chen Kaige each tried to bring the novel to the screen without success.<sup>[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)</sup>\n\n**Xi'an Film Studio** bought the rights from Chen Zhongshi in 2001, but the film lacked a shooting permit and investors withdrew. The project received script approval in 2005, then stalled again over disagreements between the screenwriter and investors.<sup>[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)</sup> Screenwriter Lu Wei began drafting in 2003; two drafts were rejected, and a script he wrote in sixteen days passed review at the film bureau, but the planned 30-million-yuan budget had raised only 10 million, and Wang Quan'an, who had signed on in October 2003, disbanded the crew.<sup>[11](https://hunan.sina.com.cn/news/2012-09-12/103916300.html)</sup>\n\nThe project revived after Wang Quan'an's film *Apart Together* won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the 60th Berlinale in 2010. Zhang Xiaoke, chairman of Shaanxi Tourism Group, invested 120 million yuan to establish Shaanxi White Deer Plain Film Company, which joined Wang's Lightshades Culture Media, Xi'an Film Studio, and Xi Film Group as co-producers. Shooting began in September 2010, lasted about five months, and obtaining the public exhibition license took another seven months.<sup>[11](https://hunan.sina.com.cn/news/2012-09-12/103916300.html)</sup> Chinese media counted the whole journey, from the novel's 1993 publication to the 2010 start of shooting, as seventeen years and three changes of director.<sup>[6](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-12/4176322.shtml)</sup>\n\n## Production and cast\n\nThe film was shot with an entirely Shaanxi-dialect soundtrack, and the production moved exterior locations through Hailar, Shanxi, and Shaanxi between preparation in 2010 and the end of shooting in late 2011.<sup>[12](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2012/07-26/4060840.shtml)</sup> Extras were brought in from Shaanxi so that every face on screen carried the look of the Guanzhong region.<sup>[5](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2206639/)</sup> The crew included production designer Huo Tingxiao, composer Zhao Jiping, and German cinematographer Lutz Reitemeier.<sup>[12](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2012/07-26/4060840.shtml)</sup>\n\nThe story the film tells is narrower than the novel's: it covers the turbulent years from 1912 to 1938, centering on Tian Xiao'e, a young woman sold into the household of Squire Guo, her liaison with Heiwa, their expulsion from the ancestral hall, and the consequences that spread through the Bai and Lu families as revolution, famine, and war reach the plain.<sup>[13](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/139162-white-deer-plain)</sup>\n\n## Versions and censorship\n\nThe film passed censorship on 31 March 2012 with a licensed length of 156 minutes, 32 minutes shorter than the Berlin version.<sup>[7](https://ent.sina.cn/film/chinese/2012-04-06/detail-icczmvun2145050.d.html)</sup> Multiple cuts circulated: a 220-minute director's preview, a 188-minute Berlin festival version, a 175-minute Hong Kong International Film Festival version rated Category III (hong Kong's adults-only film rating), and the mainland release, listed by Douban at 154 minutes.<sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup> Chen Zhongshi described the final cut as ending with the 1938 Japanese bombing of the plain and the sealing of Tian Xiao'e's spirit under a suppression tower, with the major characters reduced from more than twenty to seven or eight and the novel's multiple narrative lines collapsed into one; an earlier three-hour version had run to the founding of the People's Republic.<sup>[14](https://www.chinawriter.com.cn/2012/2012-04-20/124892.html)</sup>\n\nThe mainland opening, scheduled for 13 September 2012, was postponed two days because subtitles on the distribution hard drives were unreadable and the copies had to be remade.<sup>[6](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-12/4176322.shtml)</sup>\n\n## Reception\n\nChen Zhongshi, after watching the three-hour version, gave the film 95 points out of 100, saying it had fulfilled its mission in presenting the characters; the missing five points, he said, reflected the absence of figures such as [Bai Ling](https://www.edgepedia.org/bai-ling) and Master Zhu (朱先生). He praised Duan Yihong's Heiwa, Zhang Yuqi's Tian Xiao'e, and Zhang Fengyi's Bai Jiaxuan.<sup>[15](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-16/4186427.shtml)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)</sup>\n\nCritical opinion divided. Many readers of the novel judged that the film had thinned its historical weight, reducing an epic to what critics called a \"Tian Xiao'e biography\"; scholars noted the abrupt ending and the loss of key figures.<sup>[16](https://www.yicai.com/news/2094294.html)</sup> On Douban the film holds a 6.5 rating from more than 130,000 users.<sup>[1](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)</sup> At the box office it reached about 130 million yuan by 11 October 2012 against a 120-million-yuan investment, and trade reporting at the time questioned whether weak marketing would let it recoup its cost.<sup>[8](https://baike.sogou.com/m/fullLemma?lid=2338969)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[17](https://finance.cnr.cn/gundong/201209/t20120915_510919789.shtml)</sup>\n\n## Later adaptations\n\nChen Zhongshi died in Xi'an on 29 April 2016 at age 74, while a television adaptation was still in post-production; he had called the television serial the only form that could fully present the novel's plot.<sup>[3](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1462693)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)</sup> That series, directed by [Liu Jin](https://www.edgepedia.org/liu-jin), aired in 2017; it was pulled after one episode for what officials called a schedule adjustment, and returned cut from 85 to 77 episodes. Reviewers generally ranked the adaptations, best to worst, as television series, stage play, and film, judging the series the version that came closest to the novel's scope.<sup>[18](https://www.smalloranges.net/white-deer-plain/)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [白鹿原 (2012), Douban](https://movie.douban.com/subject/4718369/?dt_dapp=1&dt_platform=com.douban.activity.weibo)\n2. [白鹿原 White Deer Plain, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival archive](https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/film/about/archive/detail/771)\n3. [《白鹿原》：约稿到出版20年，拍成电影又等了20年, The Paper](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1462693)\n4. [文艺报 via 中国作家网, 2012 (Chen Zhongshi interview coverage)](https://image.chinawriter.com.cn/wyb2011-14pdf/2012/wyb1bWYB1BLMC12213.pdf)\n5. [白鹿原 White Deer Plain (2012), 1905电影网](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2206639/)\n6. [电影《白鹿原》拍摄17年波折不断 临上映又延期, Chinanews](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-12/4176322.shtml)\n7. [《白鹿原》确定公映版本156分钟, Sina](https://ent.sina.cn/film/chinese/2012-04-06/detail-icczmvun2145050.d.html)\n8. [白鹿原, 搜狗百科](https://baike.sogou.com/m/fullLemma?lid=2338969)\n9. [周仲谋：《白鹿原》：乡土民族史诗的影像转换, 东方论坛 2013年第6期](https://dflt.qdu.edu.cn/__local/C/62/60/60273F01E1695939404FAD7CB6B_56994E22_29A7C3.pdf)\n10. [《白鹿原》影视成陈忠实遗憾 盼全面展示小说情节, 人民网](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0430/c40606-28316229.html)\n11. [电影《白鹿原》拍摄17年波折不断, 新浪湖南](https://hunan.sina.com.cn/news/2012-09-12/103916300.html)\n12. [《白鹿原》首发制作特辑 王全安探讨中国式欲望, Chinanews](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2012/07-26/4060840.shtml)\n13. [白鹿原 (2012), The Movie Database](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/139162-white-deer-plain)\n14. [无论小说还是电影，人物与时代都是血肉相连的——陈忠实访谈, 中国作家网](https://www.chinawriter.com.cn/2012/2012-04-20/124892.html)\n15. [陈忠实谈《白鹿原》：打95分 一波三折我已麻木, Chinanews](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2012/09-16/4186427.shtml)\n16. [蹒跚行走《白鹿原》, 第一财经](https://www.yicai.com/news/2094294.html)\n17. [电影《白鹿原》宣传发行不给力 票房破亿成难题, 中国广播网](https://finance.cnr.cn/gundong/201209/t20120915_510919789.shtml)\n18. [《白鹿原》改编版本比较, smalloranges.net](https://www.smalloranges.net/white-deer-plain/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Films by genre, form, and subject › Adaptations of literature, stage, and other media › Adaptations of non-English-language literature*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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