The Year of the Tiger reads the tiger, and the tiger is mighty
The image of the tiger occupies an important position in the development of China's history. In poetry, opera, novels, paintings, sculptures, music, and more generally folklore, mythology, and nursery rhymes, the image of the tiger is ubiquitous and has become an indispensable part of Chinese culture.
In the literature from ancient times to the present, there is no shortage of "tigers". In ancient novels, Wu Song beat the tiger in "Water Margin", "Five Tiger Generals" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Miao Biochemical Tiger ate people in "Liaozhai Zhiyi"; in traditional opera, Peking Opera has "Flying Tiger Mountain" Fighting Tiger, Kunqu Opera has "Iron Crown Tu Thorn Tiger", modern drama has "Wisdom to Conquer The Tiger Mountain" and "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe"; in the drama, Tian Han's one-act play "Night of Winning the Tiger", Guo Moruo's drama "Tiger Rune"... It is not difficult to see from this that the tiger symbolizes power and ferocity in people's hearts. It is no wonder that in ancient times, when productivity was not developed enough, it was difficult for people to tame a tiger.
However, in contemporary times, tigers have become national protected animals, and people have a new interpretation of tiger nature. It is often said that the dragon is alive and the tiger leaps, and the tiger is a symbol of bravery and strength. As the world's largest cat, many modern people have given it a sense of cuteness as a cat, and the previous tigers have become "cute" tigers when they go down the mountain without paying attention.
Xiaobian collected some literary works related to tigers, some with tigers as the protagonists, and some with the word "tiger" in the title. If you are also interested, let's read the tiger in the year of the tiger as the year of the tiger approaches – the year of the tiger, the tiger is mighty!
2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy New Year
Tiger
William Blake
Translated by Guo Moruo
tiger! tiger! In the forest of darkness
The glorious light of the burning fire,
What kind of divine hand or heavenly eye
Created a mighty hall like you?
Fire in your glowing eyes
How far away in the sky or abyss is it burning?
What kind of wings did he fight?
With what kind of hand to take the flame?
What kind of strength, what kind of skill,
Pinch the flesh of your heart into?
When your heart starts beating,
How to use the wrists and shins?
What kind of hammer is it? What kind of chain?
In what kind of furnace did you refine your brain?
What kind of anvil is it? What an iron arm
Dare to catch this terrible god?
The stars dropped their shots.
Wet the firmament with their tears,
Does he smile and admire his work?
He created you and he created the Lamb?
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Tiger Chicks
Author: Shen Congwen
Publisher: Jiangsu People's Publishing House
Produced by Phoenix
Publication date: July 2020
This book contains a total of 18 short story classics. Among them, "Tiger Chick" is the most realistic and ironic famous article, the story tells that "I", as a reader, wanted to train the small soldiers around the sixth brother who were officers to become readers, paying a material and spiritual price for this young man, and in the end, this little soldier still killed people with a soldier and fled to a different place. From hopeful to heart-wrenching, the unexpected result not only brought "me" the grief of disappointed wishes, but also made "I" exude a kind of confusion and confusion that intellectuals are eager to transform the people but have completely failed, which is quite ironic.
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Animal novel king Shen Shixi collection selection
Jackal Tiger and Leopard (set of 4 volumes)
Author: Shen Shixi
Publisher: Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
Publication date: August 2020
Shen Shixi, a famous contemporary Chinese animal novel writer, is known as the "king of animal novels". The book is a selection of fourteen short and medium-sized works covering animal species such as tigers, jackals, wolves, sheep, impala, orangutans, baboons, monkeys, and dogs. Among them, "Tiger Baby Golden Leaves" tells about a person with six fingers who is considered by the villagers to be a "pipa ghost", named Six Fingers, who wandered with his aunt in the mountains when he was a child. One day, when Six-Finger was out hunting, he was attacked by a tigress, and Shunten touched the melon to pick up a female tiger cub, named Golden Leaf. Six-fingered to work hard to raise the golden leaf, the golden leaf also did not forget the grace of six fingers, risked death to save six fingers but himself was buried in the hands of Mo Ye's touching story.
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Three Sad Tigers
Author: [North America] [Cuba] Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House
Publication date: July 2021
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), a Cuban national treasure writer and representative of the second generation of new novelists in Latin America, won the Cervantes Prize for Literature in 1997.
"Three Sad Tigers" is one of the unique and experimental works in the "literary explosion" wave in Latin America. The novel has no clear story line, and the opening scene is the most famous nightclub in Havana in the 1950s, and after the host introduces it, a group of characters appear. The structure of the whole book echoes this, different characters on the scene, the end, with its unique perspective and sound to present a "play", each chapter together constitutes a grand and dazzling performance. The novel depicts several artists in Havana in the late 1950s, but the real protagonists are not them, but literature, film, music, and the city itself in memory.
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Tiger Calves
Author: Wen Yanxia
Publisher: Lijiang Publishing House
Publication date: June 2021
"Tiger Calf" is a long novel of revolutionary history created by the International Division of the Young Communist Party, vividly portraying a group of young Red Army soldiers full of blood and passion, who fearlessly sacrificed their lives for noble ideals. The novel projects their flesh-and-blood and brilliant images into the present, becoming a mirror to see our current teenage friends.
Through the touching deeds of a group of young Red Army soldiers with Du Hongyun as the protagonist who fought in blood, grew into qualified soldiers in a cruel war, and finally shed a drop of blood for the revolution, the tragic and magnificent legend of the International Division of the Young Communist Party in the history of the Party and the military history is reproduced, and the short heroic history of the International Division of the Young Communist Party is reflected. The next part takes the perspective of Du Sihong, the great-grandson of Du Hongyun and the director of a TV station's time and space dialogue program, telling the bitter pursuit of martyrs by future generations, reflecting the current reality of the inheritance of red genes from generation to generation. The process of searching has been arduous, but the haze of history will always dissipate, and the martyrs will be returned to their due faces.
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Tiger Howling - Wild Siberian Tiger Tracking and Exploration
Author: Ren Linju
New Classics produced
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: July 2021
"Tiger Howling - Wild Siberian Tiger Tracking and Exploration" is an exploration and legend about wild Siberian tigers. In the form of walking and interviewing, Ren Linju went deep into the mountains, animal protection workers, hunters, historical researchers, folklore experts, regional culture researchers, villages and mountain people, and described a humanistic sketch that was intertwined and infiltrated by the history of the rise and fall of tigers and leopards, the history of national spirit, the history of ideology and culture, the history of local development, and the history of ecological evolution. The works not only satisfy people's curiosity, but also reveal and ponder the relationship between humans and wild animals and nature; through the rise and fall of the Siberian tiger and the fate, it triggers people's associations and reflections on the fate of regions, peoples and human beings themselves. Through the literary construction that spans nature and humanities, the works remind people that it is necessary to build a "community of human destiny" not only between people and countries, but also between humans and nature. The destiny of all existence is interconnected and interactive, and only mutual benefit, mutual respect, mutual watch, and mutual blessing can achieve common development and prosperity.
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Tiger! tiger! 》
Author: [English] Kipling, Yang Lixin, translated by Leng Feng
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: June 2014
Tiger! tiger! This book is a collection of Kipling's Jungle Tales and Jungle Tales Sequels, and includes fifteen stories that are both independent and relatable to each other. Kipling harnessed the power of his imagination to create many unforgettable animal images, becoming a master who demonstrated human nature through animal nature. "Jungle Story" and "Jungle Story Sequel" have also become immortal works in world children's literature.
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Tiger Noodles
Author: Fan Dunzi
Publisher: Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: January 2020
"Tiger Noodles" includes 13 short stories such as "Wanderer in the Beer House", "Funeral Singer", "Tiger Noodles", "Rocket Motorcycle", "Small Town" and other short stories of the post-90s young writer Fan Dunzi. Among them, "Rocket Motorcycle" tells the story of a young Ali who likes to ride a motorcycle, although he was born poor, but has a kind heart and an enterprising spirit, and helps the people around him who need help through his own step-by-step struggle; "Funeral Singer" tells the process of a group of township youth chasing ideals and struggling for it; in "Small Town", the author breaks the conventional way of writing novels, tells the emotional entanglement between two generations in the town, and reflects the thick cultural soil and style of the north.
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"Tiger Ci Mountain"
Author: Hunter Yang
Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: November 2021
As the old saying goes, "A man does not quit the road, and the tiger does not quit the mountain." ”
Once you walk in the world, you live a little "spirit".
However, the world is uncertain, and it is not in accordance with people's wishes.
Once the person leaves the leaning and the tiger leaves the mountain forest, is this "spirit" still there?
Look at the officials, and look at these eight in the book!
In the year of Guangxu (1899), the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, the whales of the great powers devoured and encroached, the rivers and lakes were mixed, and there was no accidental friction with foreigners, and the eight folk oddmen of Tianjin Wei (coachmen, carpenters, dart masters, butchers, tanhuars, cooks, beggars, and knifemen) were helplessly involved in a public case mixed with internal and external troubles... In the face of the impact of the guns of ships and ships, under the choice of livelihood and righteousness, under the torment of life, under the crushing of the wheel of fate, where will the martial artists who practice boxing go?
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"Here Comes the Tiger"
Author: Wang Yizhen
Publisher: Tiantian Publishing House Co., Ltd
Publication date: December 2021
"The Tiger Is Coming" is a picture book story, a special gift from the Year of the Tiger to children. It depicts a brave big tiger with a big temper and long teeth, who wants to disobey, eat him immediately, both chasing chickens and ducks, everyone is very afraid of him, running and running, running away, and only later did I know that the tiger is not really a big tiger, but a naughty little friend. The text is light and interesting, full of rhythm and rhythm, and it is catchy to read, especially the ending reversal is very clever, which makes people can't help but read it. The painter is Wang Xi, which uses collage forms to increase the fun and complement the nursery rhyme-style text.
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The Legend of a Friend
Author: [Han] By Li Zhiyin; Ming Shu Translation
Publisher: Relay Press
Publication date: December 2021
The book is about the friendship between a tiger and a dandelion. Tigers are always fierce, which makes the small animals in the forest very afraid, but one day, the tiger wakes up and finds that a dandelion has grown on its tail. Because of the appearance of dandelions, the tiger mistakenly did several good things and won the trust of the small animals. Time passed slowly, the dandelions grew older, and the yellow petals withered, leaving only silver-white hairs. One day, the tiger accidentally got trapped by the hunter's net. The dandelion decided to sacrifice himself, and he let the tiger blow hard at himself. The dandelions in the sky became a signal for help, and the small animals in the forest saw it and ran to rescue the tiger. Later, whenever the weather warmed up and the dandelion wool flew in the sky, there would be a snow tiger wrapped in white fur.
Finishing and editing: Liu Ya
Second instance: Wang Yang
Third instance: Chen Tao