Chinanews client, Beijing, November 24th (Reporter Shangguanyun) "The love and beauty of Mongolian grasslands are brought by the swans who return to their hometown in early spring each year." This is the beginning of the most recent popular novel "Swan Totem" .

  "Swan Totem" is a work about "love and beauty" brought to readers by the writer Jiang Rong after "Wolf Totem" for 16 years.

Up to now, this novel has received a score of 9.1 on Douban, and many readers have recalled the days when they read "Wolf Totem".

  An Boshun, the curator of the novels "Wolf Totem" and "Swan Totem", said that in "Swan Totem", Jiang Rong wrote about love for the first time. In addition, this novel has another characteristic, that is, "real".

A story about love

  "Swan Totem" tells a story about love.

"Swan Totem" book cover.

Image courtesy of publisher

  After losing her partner Batu, the heroine Sarina concentrates on caring for the injured swan.

Bagner, who has a talent for business, has a deep admiration for Sarina, and he manages the prairie inn well while taking care of his desperate sweetheart.

  Later, Bagner also made great achievements in resisting the "great white catastrophe" that was rare in a century and improving the lives of herdsmen. While winning praise from everyone, he finally moved Sarina with true emotions.

  "This is also the first time that Jiang Rong has written about love in a novel." An Boshun said.

  For the first time writing about love, Jiang Rong almost put aside all the intricacies and outliers of love stories, and described an enviable and awe-inspiring feeling: whether it is the protagonist Sarina, Bagna, or the supporting actors, everyone in the work is extremely Faced with my heart sincerely, feelings appear pure and passionate.

  On the time scale of one spring and one winter, Jiang Rong integrates the dense portraits of people and the vivid nomadic life, presenting the fertile nature of the grassland and the cruel survival struggle on the side, showing readers the changes and changes of the vast grassland.

  "He used romantic and meticulous brushwork to spread a distant and mysterious swan kingdom to the readers." An Boshun commented that the swan's pursuit of beauty and cleanliness, the unswerving loyalty to the partner to death, the grand dance of gratitude to mankind, It turns into the ethics of love on the grassland, the totem of beauty, and the belief in nature.

From "Wolf Totem" to "Swan Totem"

  Many netizens continued to share their feelings of reading "Swan Totem".

  Some readers think, "This can be said to be a fairly pure, simple and traditional story, just like the life it presents, rough, primitive, but full of wild beauty and passion for life."

  An Boshun's reading experience is "real".

He revealed that Jiang Rong had lived in the grassland for many years and was very familiar with the environment there. He had also carefully inspected and verified many details.

  "Ms. Jiang Rong's idea of ​​writing the'Swan Totem' actually appeared earlier than the idea of ​​writing the'Wolf Totem'." An Boshun said, but due to various reasons, the latter's story was written first.

Picture source: Picture courtesy of the publisher

  But Jiang Rong has never given up on the idea of ​​the book "Swan Totem".

After the publication of "Wolf Totem", An Boshun learned that Jiang Rong would continue to write a "more beautiful story", but it was not until more than two years ago that he was writing "Swan Totem".

"A lifetime dream and pursuit"

  The publication of "Swan Totem" also reminded many readers of Jiang Rong's very popular novel "Wolf Totem".

  Jiang Rong is a famous writer.

16 years ago, when his "Wolf Totem" was published, it sparked a long discussion boom.

Later, the film of the same name adapted from "Wolf Totem" was also all the rage.

  Although the title of the new work "Swan Totem" is similar to "Wolf Totem", the content and style are different.

  An Boshun said that the story structure and rhythm of "Wolf Totem" are written according to the four seasons, and the emotional tone is warm, courageous, and passionate; in "Swan Totem", the narrative rhythm is relaxed, mainly describing the beauty of nature and human heart. More timeless.

  And this new book is equally significant to Jiang Rong himself.

He said: "The wolf totem is black, and the swan totem is white. The wolf totem symbolizes freedom and courage, and the swan totem symbolizes love and beauty. The two totems blend like a Tai Chi picture. After filling this gap, finally But my lifelong dream and pursuit." (End)