狼图腾课件.ppt

Look at these pictures Can you share what impression wolf have left on you? WOLF TOTEM JIANG RONG Author Pen name: Jiang Rong(姜戎) Real name: lv Jiamin(吕嘉民) The themes of this book Wolf Totem?is narrated by protagonist（主人公） Chen Zhen, a young man in his 20s who, like the author, left his native?Beijing?to work in Inner Mongolia during the cultural revolution.?Through descriptions of folk traditions, rituals（宗教仪式）, and life on the steppe（大草原）,?Wolf Totem?compares the culture of the?ethnic Mongolian?nomads（游牧民） and the?Han Chinese?farmers in the area, praising the freedom, independence, respect, unyielding before hardship, teamwork and competition of the former and criticising the Confucian-inspired culture of the latter, which the author referred to as sheeplike.?The book condemns（谴责） the?agricultural collectivisation?imposed（施加影响于） on the nomads by the settlers, and the ecological disasters it caused, and ends with a 60call to action disconnected from the main thread of the novel. The author states that he was inspired to begin writing?Wolf Totem?by an accident: he ignored the advice of the clan（部落） chief of the group of nomads with whom he was staying, and accidentally stumbled across（偶然发现） a pack of wolves. Terrified, he watched as the wolves chased a herd of sheep off a cliff, then dragged their corpses（尸体） into a cave. From then on, fascinated by the wolves, he began to study them and their relationship with the nomads more closely, and even attempted to domesticate（驯养） one. The main story of the book Here is the story. During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76, two educated youths from Beijing, Chen and Yang, members of the social class most persecuted by Maos fanatics, volunteer to live on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. For eleven years they adapt themselves to a wholly un-Han, indeed anti-Han, culture. The herdsmen, manoeuvring themselves within the fragile balance of the grasslands, admire, fear and worship the wolf, an animal that Hans not