Chapter 23 21. Wolf Totem

I have been in Hong Kong for more than a year, and my body and mind are extremely rich. I have gained more than 20 pounds, read more than 200 books, and have a lot of good books to read. It is really a joy in life. Reading books should be chosen according to one's own interests, and the method of reading books is naturally more demanding due to the limited life left. Given 20 minutes, you can read about ten or eight pages. .In this way, you can read as many books as you like as much as possible without wasting your life. Reading is also about chance. When I got a copy of "Wolf Totem" for a long time, I was influenced by other introduction articles and thought it extolled wolf nature.Since I had suffered from wolves in the past, I have absolutely no liking for animals like wolves. It would be best if they were dead, so I have never opened them.That day, for unknown reasons, I opened it and was immediately attracted by it. Although there are many superfluous texts in the tome, it is really a good book.

And it solves a mystery that has been asked for advice for years. I have been asking people for advice: Back in Inner Mongolia (1956 and 1957), the grass on the prairie was as tall as some people.When Han people first arrived, they were warned that if they saw long bamboo poles standing upright in the grass and tied with red cloth strips, they must not go on horseback to inspect them. This is because local men and women are making love, and it would be wrong to break them.From this we can know the height of the grass. But why, in the past 20 or 30 years, the so-called grasslands seen in all the documentaries are not even knee-high, but only ankle-high; what kind of grassland is it, it can only be regarded as grassland in urban parks.

Why did the prairie disappear? I asked and asked, but I didn't get an answer. After reading "Wolf Totem", I understood!Of course, "Wolf Totem" is not just as simple as letting people know why the grassland disappeared, it is indeed very beautiful and very touching. The sad thing is: the grassland is gone, it is due to human factors, how pitiful!