求狼图腾 Wolf totem 一段英文介绍 大约2分钟演讲

求狼图腾 Wolf totem 一段英文介绍 大约2分钟演讲
如题 不要太弱智的英文就ok了
翻译得好我会重分感谢!
有没有适合2分钟左右的介绍啊 不用太长的``` 简练一点!

Wolf Totem' can hardly be called a novel,but rather a dedicated piece of research,in this case,research devoted to all that is Mongolian,with folk tradition,anthropology,history and philosophy binding together the book's various theories.
It has taken 30 years of Jiang Rong's life to complete the novel Wolf Totem. In fact a work of this depth can hardly be called a novel,but rather a dedicated piece of research,in this case,research devoted to all that is Mongolian,with folk tradition,anthropology,history and philosophy binding together the book's various theories.More simply put,it tells of the lives of Mongolians on the grasslands and of their complicated feelings towards the wolf.
Despite the weight of learning behind it,Wolf Totem is not a purely academic undertaking,and therefore better examined alongside other sophisticated historical epics such as Tolstoy's War and Peace. This is a book full of fascinating historical accounts and legends,yet it is the philosophical conclusions drawn from these histories which have caused the most discussion among critics.
Wolf Totem as a novel vividly reflects the colorful lives of the Mongolian and describes the valiant,courageous and strong characters which are formulated in the bitter natural environment they inhabit.Pertaining to this natural environment,the wolf,as the soul of the grasslands,has played a key role in the Mongolian people's development.Legendary wolves,vast grasslands and valiant herdsmen form a metaphorical triangle in Wolf Totem:Wolves represent the heaven,grasslands represent the earth,and herdsmen represent the people.Jiang Rong's descriptions of Mongolia's terrible predators are touching for their humanized observations and compliments.Although the wolf is a terrifying animal,it also has a terrible beauty.
Whilst much of the book lies with wolves and myths,this is only part of a broader philosophy.Jiang Rong's philosophical point is his concept of ethnic existence.He thinks different ethnic character depends on different ethnic existence.To expound,ethnic character refers to an ethnic group's behavior and attitude towards heaven,earth,and people,while ethnic existence refers to the original natural environment of an ethnic group and the industries which developed from this environment,industries like hunting or farming.Jiang Rong has done a great deal of historical research to explain this theory,which he uses to explain China's entire history,and even touch upon the history of the whole world.
It is obvious that the Jiang Rong has made great efforts to develop his theory,and a new interpretation is nearly always a welcome one.Meng Fanhua,a famous critic,takes a positive attitude,believing that modern people need to look at the wolf's story to reflect on the development of human society,where romanticism has replaced heroism.However for Meng Fanhua,the importance of ethnic character is exaggerated,with other factors also deciding an ethnicity's fate; for example politics,economy,and neighboring ethnicities.
Many are more doubtful than Meng Fanhua,and two philosophical ideas in the novel have aroused particular criticism.The first is Jiang Rong's musings on the nature of the wolf and the sheep.Issue has been taken with the summary of the Mongolian character as reflecting the wolf's nature,and the Han character as reflecting that of the sheep.In fact,there is even disagreement as to the accuracy of his definitions,with wolf-like in the book meaning valiant and daring,and sheep-like meaning tender and conservative.Clearly,Jiang Rong's theory cannot be consistently applied to history,with a number of bloody eras and events in Han history quite self evidently closer to the nature of the wolf than the sheep,but equally clearly not related to the wolf according to his criterion.
The other disputed point concerns the wolf totem and dragon totem,with the former belonging to the Mongol ethnicity,and the latter representing the Han Whether the dragon is really the totem for the nation of Cathy,the ancient Han empire,is certainly highly debatable.Historians believe that the dragon and phoenix were used by ancient China's rulers only for self-aggrandizement and to frighten their officials and citizens,rather than as a national symbol.This original use of the dragon as a symbol of the ruling elite obstructs the idea that the dragon totem represents the whole Han ethnicity,and makes any talk of Han people being the offspring of the dragon appear to be nothing more than a modern myth.
Maybe we should take away from Wolf Totem the more down-to-earth conclusions of famous journalist Bai Yansong,who feels that on the grassland,wolves are respectable opponents,but not partners.For him,the Mongolian believes in,and worships the wolf because they feel that the wolf deserves their respect as a worthy rival.More saliently,in terms of the need for the wolf's spirit in modern society,he does concede that people often recoil from the truth and the justice because of fear,but at the same time there are frequent examples of violence and irritation.So maybe the childlike conclusion that we can draw out of all this tortuous philosophical rambling is simply,that we all need something of the wolf and the sheep in us,depending on the situation.