Wrote a novel "Wolf Totem" that others can't write all their lives?

But there is such a person who published his first novel at the age of 58. With this novel, he directly boarded the rich list of Chinese writers, which is a model of being a late bloomer. Before that, he was the man behind a successful woman.

This man is Jiang Rong, the author of Wolf Totem, and his wife, Zhang Kangkang, a famous writer and vice chairman of Chinese Writers Association.

Jiang Rong is a man.

Jiang Rong, a name that looks like a real name, is actually a pseudonym. Jiang Rong, whose real name is Lv Jiamin. 1946, Jiang Rong was born in a revolutionary family.

His father Lu Bingkui was a skilled charlatan before the revolution. Later, he joined the New Fourth Army and participated in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Ministry of Health and was a famous "commander in chief of traditional Chinese medicine".

My mother is more revolutionary than my father. She used to be a female worker in Shanghai and worked underground. Because she participated in the revolution, she was injured and disabled on the battlefield.

When I was a child, my life in Jiangrong was wonderful. My family lived in a villa-style garden house, which was the office of the Associated Press in Nanjing during the Republic of China. Good family conditions and atmosphere can really make children's starting line ahead of others

Just like Jiang Rong, in that era when others could only read People's Daily and listen to Central Broadcasting, he had access to internal books read by cadres and foreign films that others could not see.

For Jiang Rong, the happiest thing in childhood is to take the children to the wedding in the compound. At that time, the wedding was relatively simple, and a few sweets and fruits could happily complete the ceremony, so there was no need to put on a big banquet like now.

No child can refuse the temptation of candy, even Jiang Rong, who has lived fairly well since childhood. Once, Jiang Rong came home with two bags full of candy at someone else's wedding. Before she could be happy, her mother threw the candy into the toilet and almost beat Jiang Rong.

Later, his mother died young, and Jiang Rong followed his father who had transferred to Beijing. When he was still in junior high school, he was influenced by his father and read a wider range of books. There are historical masterpieces such as Historical Records and History as a Mirror, as well as foreign literature called "poisonous weeds" such as Red and Black and Jane Eyre. A lot of reading also laid a solid foundation for his future creation of Wolf Totem.

At that time, the working group was stationed in the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Jiangrong. Jiang Rong strongly opposed it, so he joined two other students to put up a small poster with more than 10 thousand words. In the torrent of the times, the voice of an ordinary student did not cause a sensation. The three of them were beaten as members of the "anti-Party trio" in the "four clean-ups" movement and fought at the school student meeting.

Because of the later political changes, the working group withdrew. Jiang Rong, who was criticized in the past, and his classmates set up a revolutionary Committee and served as deputy director.

At a young age, I ended up with the "iron rice bowl" that others dreamed of. Jiang Rong was not complacent at all, but fell into great anxiety. My father's generation suffered a lot, and it was also the bullets that made today's achievements. Why can I be an official easily without eating anything? To suffer, to bleed, to suffer, to match morality with status, and to walk in a plain position.

Escape from the wolf's mouth

In the 1960s and 1970s, young intellectuals needed to go to the countryside.

At that time, Mandu Baolige Ranch, Dongwuzhumuqin Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, hoped that Beijing would send a group of revolutionary youths to help them make revolution. With the strong support of the Revolutionary Committee of Dongcheng District, and the lectures given by Lu Chao, Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Artists Association, in the Middle School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he described the Wuzhumuqin Grassland as a must-see place to learn painting.

Jiang Rong planted a seed in his heart to go to Inner Mongolia. After discussion, he and several classmates took the initiative to go to Inner Mongolia.

Everything on the grassland is what Jiang Rong imagined: blue sky and white clouds, cattle, sheep, cattle and horses, and rich pastures. ..................................................................................................................................................

Shortly after arriving in the grassland, Jiang Rong experienced the scene of "the wolf is coming" and had no time to recover from the shock of the vast grassland.

One day, Jiang Rong and a herdsman in the pasture went to the factory department more than 80 miles away to handle affairs. The herdsmen have something to stay for a meeting, and Jiang Rong needs someone to come back with the documents. Before Jiang Rong came back, the herdsmen specially told him to take the road. Jiang Rong, a young man with a pure heart and a fearless heart, is going to cut corners across the grassland.

Jiang Rong rode a big green horse into a valley. Even if he raised the whip again, the horse trembled and dared not move forward. Perhaps the sixth sense is extremely acute at a critical moment. He found a wolf pack of about 40 on the hillside not far away.

People are also the most resourceful when they are in danger. Jiang Rong remembered the experience that the herdsmen had taught him, raised the two steel pedals on his feet to his chest and smashed them hard, trying to remember the shouts of the herdsmen when they were hunting wolves. While shouting, they tried their best to smash them, and the wolves finally dispersed. Jiang Rong recalled that this experience still has a lingering fear. He admits that this feeling is like "the soul must be obtained from the body."

How many wolves are there on the grassland? Take a flashlight at night. Every flash dozens of meters away is a wolf's eye. Jiang Rong got into the tent and chatted with the herdsmen, but in a few words he always took neither wolves nor sheep. Even in the middle of the night, the wolf who stole the sheep got into a fight with the shepherd dog on guard, and once hit Jiang Rong who was sleeping in the tent.

On another occasion, Jiang Rong herded sheep home in the afternoon. It took him a long time to find that there was a sheep with blood all over its neck. Later, the sheep died of suppuration because of the wound. Jiang Rong learned from the herdsmen that herding sheep should stand at the top of the mountain and watch the sheep and slowly follow them home. Because wolves will attack sheep whenever they get a chance.

Since then, Jiang Rong has developed a strong interest in wolves. He began to collect one story after another about wolves from herders and recorded it in his diary. These short stories alone have accumulated one or two hundred.

Grassland that can't go back

Jiang Rong spent 1 1 year in the grassland.

1 1 years, Jiang Rong rode a horse and ate grass under the blue sky and white clouds during the day, and hid under the covers at night to secretly read a box of "forbidden books" brought from Beijing. Far from the political center of Beijing, facing the desolate prairie, the revolutionary ideal and youthful vitality that once had a vast world gradually burned out.

1977 college entrance examination resumed 10 year 1978 a wave of educated youth returning home. Jiang Rong returned to Beijing after 1 1 year of grassland life, and prepared to take the college entrance examination the next year. He was admitted to China Academy of Social Sciences by Marxism-Leninism with the first place in the general education course and a paper on the reform of the state system. After graduation, he entered a university in Beijing to teach and became addicted to academic research.

In the past few years since Jiang Rong left the grassland, great changes have taken place in Wuzhumuqin. More and more roads extend infinitely on the grassland, and more and more cars are carrying mechanized tools and people to "show their fists" on the grassland. Trees were cut down and grasslands were reclaimed into farmland.

After a short period of prosperity, bad consequences followed. Knee-deep grass has turned into short and hard grass roots, and a large number of wolves have been killed, which has led to rampant prairie rats, and land desertification has brought sandstorms all over the sky. ...

After leaving the grassland for nearly 20 years, Jiang Rong once returned to Xilin Gol Ranch, but he could never find himself in his memory. The grassland where horses can gallop at will, and now the grassland where cattle and sheep are blown by the wind, has long lost its original appearance and become riddled with holes after endless demands and so-called "transformation" by human beings.

The years when I wrote Wolf Totem.

The idea of writing stories about grasslands and wolves is getting stronger and stronger. Finally, 1998, Jiang Rong began to write wolf totem. The experience of drilling a wolf hole, digging a wolf cub, raising a cub and fighting a wolf seems to be yesterday. He integrated his philosophy of life with grassland culture and wrote them into his novels.

Zhang Kangkang recalled the days when her husband Jiang Rong wrote novels, and she always carried one in her heart. Jiang Rong devoted too much effort to writing this novel. Every time he writes, he always puts a dry towel beside him, because his tears are always gushing. Jiang Rong always writes at night and sleeps in the morning. In order to take care of Jiang Rong's health, Zhang Kangkang changed the habit of getting up late and got up early to make breakfast with Jiang Rong.

Jiang Rong feels uncomfortable when writing. He went to the hospital for examination and found that his blood pressure soared to 170, but he still didn't stop writing. One night, after experiencing another violent beating of the heart, Jiang Rong took Zhang Kangkang and said, "If I can't get up, please help me finish it and revise it, so I should be able to publish it."

Zhang Kangkang knew that it was her husband's greatest wish to finish this novel. As a writer, she deeply understands the significance of this novel that her husband bought with his life. Zhang Kangkang solemnly agreed.

After six years, Wolf Totem was finally published. Without publicity, Wolf Totem was out of stock only two months after its publication. At one time, novels about wolves followed suit, and wolf totems were translated into more than 20 languages and published overseas. Many fans even followed in the footsteps of Stark Chan, the protagonist, to the Wuji Muqin Grassland, which greatly promoted the development of local tourism.

In 20 15, the famous French director Jean Jacques Arnold put Wolf Totem on the big screen and became the biggest dark horse in the film market that year. Before filming, Jiang Rong made a request: the protagonist of the film must be a Mongolian wolf, and dogs must never be used instead! In the grassland, dogs are slaves, wolves are gods, and wolves and dogs have different eyes. The dog's eyes will never shine on the wild light of the grassland.

The film "Wolf Totem" only took 8 months to shoot, plus the process of domesticating and preparing wolves in the early stage, it also took 6 years. 1 1 year's real life experience, six years of writing and six years of preparation, these 23 years have been condensed into a 120-minute film, telling the world the story of Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade's harmonious life on the endless prairie.

In Jiang Rong's works, the wolf is clever and tenacious. They never give in to anyone, never compromise on anything, and fight against humanity and destiny in the name of a team. Their unyielding quality, teamwork friendship and family affection shocked our hearts.

Meng Fange, director of China Institute of Culture and Literature, praised Wolf Totem as a splendid and peculiar existence, which is not only a eulogy of wolves, but also an elegy. Zhou Tao, vice chairman of Xinjiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Writers' Association, said that this is a masterpiece about the survival philosophy of nomadic people, which puts the problems that China never dared to face squarely on the table and forces out the weakness of Confucian culture.

Jiang Rong has been grinding his sword for half his life, and now he has a wolf totem.

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