Character Analysis
Chen Zhen, a young educated youth from Beijing, responded to the country’s call and went to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to join the team. As a Han Chinese, he was taught not to like wolves, but to fear and hate wolves. After arriving in Inner Mongolia, he became obsessed with wolves and the spirit of wolf totems.
He is a college student, educated and thoughtful. He is dissatisfied with the current situation of society, but he is also a typical scholar with a weak personality. He only keeps his dissatisfaction in his heart and does not dare to express it, let alone resist. .
When he arrived on the grassland, he was shocked by the strong personality of the Mongolians. He was personally "blood transfused". Precisely because he lacked this kind of strength, he had a feeling for the Mongols and the Mongolian totem wolf. The psychology of envy, adoration, and yearning.
The wolf will not buy the blame of the rebel leaders sent by the "top". Time and time again, he is so angry that Bao Shungui, whom he hates the most, is angry. In that era when thousands of horses are silent, the wolf is the unyielding figure in his heart. The symbol of the soul, so he was madly fascinated by the wolf.
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About the author
The author of "Wolf Totem", Mr. Jiang Rong (pseudonym), was born in 1946 in Beijing. In 1967, he volunteered to join the team and settled in the Elun Grassland Pastoral Area of ??Inner Mongolia. In 1978, he returned to Beijing and was admitted to the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, majoring in political economics. Just like the protagonist Chen Zhen in the novel, Jiang Rong danced with wolves on the grassland for eleven years.
He has dug out wolf dens, raised wolf cubs, and witnessed countless battles between wolves and goats, wolves and humans, and wolves and horses. It was the quality of wolves, the prairie people's totem worship of wolves, and the mystery of the Mongolian cavalry's battles in the 13th century that made Jiang Rong obsessed with it for 30 years, and finally spent almost 6 years writing the novel "Wolf Totem" .
The unique experience and obsessive thinking make the story of the work, especially the details of the wolf, present a colorful, accurate and powerful charm.
Jiang Rong was born in a cadre family. He received professional painting training as a boy and was deeply influenced by Russian literature, movies and oil paintings. He experienced the cultural revolution in his youth.
He is concerned about national affairs, political movements and trends of thought, and his unique personality has caused him to suffer many setbacks, thus forging his dignified and majestic creative style. The narrative is grand, rich in details, and has multiple themes. It has humanistic significance that transcends regional cultures and national beliefs.
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