The literary critic Bai Ye once said that the steppe wolf in Jiang Rong's pen is the wolf of biology, the wolf of humanity, the wolf of reality, and the wolf of history, so this is a praise of wolves and an elegy of wolves. The wolf totem tells the story of Zhiqing and the wolf in the last primitive grassland of Inner Mongolia in the late 1960s. It tells the story of Zhiqing Chen Zhen in the Inner Mongolia Erlun grassland to follow the old man Bilig gradually understand the process of wolves fearing wolves, and ends with the grassland being abandoned and the wolves exterminating, which is thought-provoking. After the advent of great industrialization, we lost the steppe, lost the wolf pack, and most regrettably lost faith.
I have always been pathetic for a people without faith. As the belief of the people of Inner Mongolia, the wolf is a sacred place that has been blurred. The spread of science and technology gave people the power to defeat the wolves, and these sacred things disappeared and the faith perished. The wolf pack's agility, wisdom and bravery, love and hatred gradually became the symbols in the book, and the wolf totem turned the noun into a verb, spreading out the tragic and magnificent and singable picture in front of us, which is the epic of the wolf.
I remember a scene where wolves lurked in the snow calmly and quietly for several days, and teamwork forced the healthy yellow sheep to the top of the mountain. Forced by helplessness, the yellow sheep walked to the end of the road, jumped off the cliff, and fell into the snow nest. The snow was so deep that the fat yellow sheep plunged headlong into the snow pile and could hardly survive. While the less weighted lambs and ewes survive, the wolves, with their wisdom, allow themselves to survive the winter while preserving the continuation of the yellow sheep race. Not covetous, this is a great wisdom.
The wintering rations caught by wolves are effortlessly removed and sold cheaply. It is a deception, a cruel blackmail of the strong against the weak. Surrounded by terrible cold and death, the wolves unleash a battle of revenge, a desperate struggle and a fearless determination.
People raised a group of war horses on the grassland, fat and strong, which were the treasures of the herders. With the arrival of white snow on the Mongolian steppe, the wolves launched a grand counterattack. They are a group of wolves forced to the end of the road, a group of fearless wolves. It was a counter-offensive that killed a thousand enemies and inflicted eight hundred self-inflicted wounds, with killing and despair in their bones. Through the night and the blizzard, wolves pounced on the war horse, and the sharp teeth plunged deep into the flesh of the horse until the teeth were broken. Without teeth, it cannot hunt, or even eat, and after the teeth are broken, it loses its qualification to follow the wolves and cannot escape the fate of tragic death. The wolf used its claws to cut through the belly, intestines, and internal organs of the warhorse, and the horse rushed forward blindly, and the horse's hooves stepped on the internal organs and wrapped around the intestines until it crushed its own heart and fell to the ground and died. The storm and snow covered the wolves, perhaps by heaven, and the horses lost control in the panic and were driven to the swamp by the wolves as a whole, and the deeper they struggled, the deeper they fell. The blizzard passed, the sky was slightly bright, the fierce battle, the sad death, the corpses were everywhere. It was a death for revenge.
After industrialization, people drove shotguns and chased flesh with machinery, playing noble and fragile lives in applause. They drove endlessly after the strong wolf, driving it with a gun, the car did not stop, the wolf could not rest, a strong wolf was forced to the end of the road by humans, eyes blank, sitting dead. The wolf falls, the indomitable soul rises, and the people seem to be victorious, and behind the victory there is a great sadness of the lack of humanity.
The wolf totem is calling for faith, for harmony, for the return of humanity, and that's what we should think about.