Series works II "The Wolf of Xi Xia"
"The Wolf of Xi Xia"
Number of pages:336
Price:RMB28
Issued by: Writers Publishing House,2011
Impact and evaluation:
It is a hybridity of time and space, a fantasy of reality and fable. Xue Mo said the protagonist of the novel is just his thought, all the characters of the novel interpreted his thought, and this is a "Utopia" built by human body and soul, fable interpretation of the novel of the ultimate dream of mankind.
Summary:
According to legend, the black general of Xi Xia in Black water country is a hero of the western history, his soul lingers in thousands of years in the western area. The carrier of the spirit must be accompanied by a wolf to be vigorously. The novel is about the fate of the black generals and the fate of their descendants with the wolf. That wolf, the ancestors of the Tibetan mastiff, comes from the ancient, flourishes in Xi Xia; is vigorous and full of extremely bravery.
Black Generals in the Mongol armies was under siege, the state was broken, but the descendants fled to a mysterious utopia in the Qilian Mountain, and lived there for thousands of years. Its heritage, through thousands of years of history hasn’t been changed, however, because of some kind of fracture on the heritage, the culture is like a glimmer of candlelight, and it is difficult to carry forward the majority.
In the novel, there is a Hakka woman in the south tried to find the “Wolf" which is the descendants of Xi Xia God mastiff, comes across the western black singer, said that he is the carrier spirit of Xi Xia General of Black water country, and the spirit has been maintained in a unique form, from generation to generation completion of his vow of compassion.
The black singer has always wanted to get the culture flourish inherited from black general. He takes lifelong effort to find legendary eternal Pure Land. After a lot of hard work, but found the Holy Land, in fact, is a replica of the home - Liangzhou.
The black singer looking for eternity and Hakka woman looking for the wolf, these two meet each other one day, hence the eastern and western culture in a historical point is mysteriously fit, full of glory.