In April 2010, in the Ruoerge Grassland, Sichuan female painter Li Weiyi rescued the dying wolf cub "Green" and brought it back to Chengdu to feed. "Grimm" is the world's first wolf to successfully return to the pack after being raised by an individual. Li Weiyi and "Green's" "human wolf love" has touched countless people in the past ten years, and also has a group of loyal fans. On this basis, Hainan Publishing House recently published a green book "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves", which was promoted by Li Weiyi and Hongjuan, a senior media person, to present the story behind Li Weiyi and "Green" in two lines, so that people can have a deeper understanding and thinking about the way of nature - the relationship between humans and animals and nature by reading this amazing legend.
Li Weiyi, born in the 1980s, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, is a wildlife painter and writer. Currently working on the establishment of a wild wolf pack reserve in the Ruoerge steppe. Because of his legendary experience of living with a wolf and successfully rewilding and returning, it has become the focus of media attention.
In the spring of 2010, during the sketching of the Ruoerge grassland, Li Weiyi rescued a dying wolf and named it "Green". Wei Yi brought Green back to his home in Chengdu, carefully raised and adjusted, and became a "wolf mother". However, the reinforced concrete tall building, after all, is not the home of the little wolf, it can not show its nature, like the wind freely galloping. So, Wei Yi took Green back to the Ruoerge Grassland. Wolves, however, are not accepted by wild wolves. Day after day, she accompanied it, subjecting it to tempering and rewilding, starting from the simplest hunting, and teaching it the rules of survival in the reckless wasteland step by step. Until one day, after experiencing the test of life and death in a dangerous environment, she found that she had become a burden for Green. In the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar in 2011, under the eyes of "Wolf Mother" and "Wolf Father", Green finally returned to his wolf pack. This amazing legend of "man-wolf love" has now spread all over the country.
Hongjuan, a veteran journalist and famous writer, is a young mother, the child is in the beginning of the small ascension, watching the child bear the dual pressure of academic and physical and mental health, let her experience the dazedness and anxiety of motherhood. One day, when she walked into the world of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", she inadvertently gained too many feelings, about family affection, about life, about freedom, about nature, about wolves...
Thus, there was this "fate meeting" - the cooperation of "wolf mother" Li Weiyi and the talented girl Hongjuan to co-author "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves". They are both good at writing, one is gentle and beautiful, the other is free and humorous, which can be described as a combination of pearls and complement each other.
Zhang Qiulin, consultant of Hainan Publishing House and director of the Children's Bureau, also revealed many behind the scenes of the publication of "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves". Zhang Qiulin said: "Regarding the title of the book, at first a few were not ideal, but in the end, Li Weiyi made up his mind: let's call it "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves". The title is both simple and seductive, and everyone unanimously applauds it. Later, Hongjuan went to Chengdu to visit Weiyi and her parents, and also met the somewhat mysterious 'Wolf Daddy' Yi Feng (documentary director). In addition to talking to Wei Yi, Hongjuan also 'dug' a lot of wonderful materials from her parents and Yi Feng. And Hongjuan and Weiyi are thousands of miles away, talking to each other in the air, and it is even more unknown. They carefully wrote and changed their manuscripts in order to be perfect, and paid a lot throughout the creative process. ”
It is worth mentioning that in June 2017, based on this real experience, the documentary film of the same name edited from the original image was released. The film has received touching praise from countless audiences, and won the "Best Asian Production Award" in the nature category of the 2016 "Golden Panda" International Documentary Festival; and the Best Newcomer Documentary Award of the 2016 China Guangzhou International Documentary "Golden Red Cotton". Lu Chuan, Sun Li, Tong Liya, Feng Shaofeng and other film and television stars are recommended.
Talking about the creation of "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves", Li Weiyi said that humans and wild animals can coexist harmoniously and not interfere with each other. In the process of progress, man is accessible but not greedy to nature. The foundation of quality education is to have a sense of reverence for nature and the bottom line of taking. China's land is vast, rich in natural resources and animal resources, the once-flourishing Tibetan antelope has become a shatush shawl in the fashion capital of the world, and the animals that have escaped the scourge of skinning can sometimes hide from the greedy "tip of the tongue", as long as the wild animals are still living precariously on the "tip of the knife", it is a huge regression of civilization. "The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves" is not to satisfy the curiosity, not to show love, I spent so much effort to be born into death, just want to tell people that the ideal mode of getting along with nature, man and wildlife can be like this, and I hope that people can feel the happiness of being human and the yearning for returning to a more pure humanity in the contrast between wolf sex and human nature. We have more and more wealth, but less and less happiness; more and more people we know, but fewer and fewer true friends; buildings are built higher and higher, but people's vision is getting shorter and shorter; the roads of the cities are getting wider and wider, but people's hearts are getting narrower; many people prefer animals to contact the people around them! Because only animals still have a more human-like side. ”
As a recorder of Li Weiyi and Green's story, Hongjuan was touched by every detail in the process. She said: "'The Story Behind the Return to the Wolves' is not only Green's growth record from a small wolf to a wolf king, but also Li Weiyi's inspirational dream journey. Under the influence of Wei Yi and Yi Feng, I have watched a lot of books and films of 'The World Has a Love Wolf', and among so many wolf stories that can be sung and wept, Green is still the most touching, because he is a sentient and righteous Chinese steppe wolf. "For several months in a precious life, it is a very romantic thing to think about by a wolf. Every day of writing, empathy in the middle, always burned by a moving force to the point of embarrassment. Seeing me interviewing Me on the phone, often as soon as I put down the phone, my son Han Ying smiled innocently and said, "Mom, you and your aunt are talking like dreams, are wolves really so emotional?" This sentence became my biggest motivation. Yes, all animals are like us humans, long or short, full of joy and sorrow. When we let go of stereotypes, it is a form of respect. We want to believe, it is a kind of compassion. For this change, I am willing to give it a try. I hope that people will begin to understand these serious-looking, agile, virtuous, and temperamental staters through ripples and my words. ”
For wolves, Li Weiyi has his own unique understanding: "The wolf nature I understand is brave and enterprising, tenacious and tenacious, self-reliant and free, heavy on righteousness, mutual help and solidarity, and the wolf has a sense of collective responsibility and teamwork spirit that many people gradually lack at present, and perhaps the latter is the most important." The strength of lone wolves is far less than that of lions, bears, tigers and leopards, but they know how to divide labor and cooperate, condensing into a powerful force. A wolf is not much of a thing, but a pack of wolves is not. I think that perhaps only if we first respect our nature and successfully shape a brave lone wolf with a free spirit, we are entitled to expect more. ”
Of course, behind Grimm's story is the reflection on how humans live in harmony with nature. Li Weiyi said: "The grassland is alive, the existence of wolves is the only self-repair and resistance to overgrazing in the natural cycle of the grassland, if even this little of its own resistance ability is gone, the life of the grassland will also run out of oil." But under the greed and possessiveness of human beings, who else can respect the arrangements of nature and leave room for wolves to survive? She further explains: "Humans always breed creatures that are beneficial to themselves and destroy creatures that they hate, but ignore that nature does not easily create any life." "This may be used to illustrate the relationship between man and nature and animals, human mercenary intentions lead to the gradual extinction of many species in nature, and nature embraces everything until the day when it is unable to bear it."
It can be said that this is a book that parents can accompany their children to read together, today's children's confusion is in every generation, see how Li Weiyi's relatives guide her, dad said "an exam proves nothing", but let her converge on the heart and start to read seriously, parents are the source of her life's positive energy. At the same time, this is also a book for young people who are wandering, if your professional status conflicts with the ideal model, see how Li Weiyi spent it. If the business is not smooth, look at how Yifeng is adjusted, a place with family affection and temperature may be the origin of the new coordinates of life. (Readers' Daily All-Media Reporter He Jian)
Editor: Wang Xin Responsible Editor: Dong Xiaoyue Review: Zhou Hua