Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong
About This Novel
The movie of the same name stars Feng Shaofeng and Dou Xiao, and is directed by the famous French director Jean-Jacques Annaud! This is the only "unparalleled book" that describes and studies Mongolian steppe wolves so far! Those elven-like Mongolian steppe wolves roar out of the book at any time: the wolf's superb tactics for every reconnaissance, formation, ambush, and surprise attack; the wolf's clever use of weather and terrain; the wolf's fear of death and perseverance; the friendship and affection among the wolf clan; the wolf's relationship with all things on the grassland. The relationship; the difficult growth process of the stubborn and cute little wolf after losing its freedom - these all remind us of human beings, and then think about the questions that have so far remained unanswered in human history: Why were only hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry able to sweep across the Eurasian continent? What are the underlying reasons for the vast territory of the Chinese nation today? In history, was it the Chinese civilization that conquered the nomads, or was it the nomads' blood transfusions for the Han people that allowed the Chinese civilization to continue? Why do Chinese people on horseback, from ancient times to the present, not worship the horse totem but believe in the wolf totem? Is the reason why Chinese civilization has never been interrupted because there is still a wolf totem culture in China that has never been interrupted? Therefore, we have to reminisce about our past, and face our once glorious and once shattered mountains, rivers and history and ask: We keep claiming to be descendants of the Yan and Huang people, but does it mean that the "dragon totem" is most likely to have evolved from the "wolf totem" of the nomadic people? Will the "Dragon Totem Worship" of the Chinese nation be revealed from now on? Are we the descendants of the dragon or the descendants of the wolf?
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Rating: 95 Attribute: modern prairie wolf Comment: This is a very shocking and real novel. As mentioned in the introduction, it is truly a unique book. The deep-rooted concepts of the grassland people in the book about the grassland, yellow sheep, wolves, and everything in nature are incomparable to us. After a person dies and the lamp is extinguished, he returns to the Heaven of Immortality. How long will this ritual last? Modern civilization brings superiority and comfort to life, but what does it take away? The inheritance of some cultures.
I originally read this book as a physical book when I was in high school. I had a profound impression at the time. The story was good, but the ideological aspect was biased.
