"The right Bank of Argun"--a summary after reading

This book is the seventh annual Mao Dun Literature Prize, can be seen its weight. The text beautifully describes the minority people in the mountain forest life, mainly about the Manchukuo Palace period to the 780 's after the founding of the story, the specific time is not very clear.

Argun is the boundary river between Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Russia, and the right bank is the place where the people live.

The people of the e-gram

E-gram means "live in the mountains of people," this people like to live in the mountains, domesticated reindeer, usually eat some lean meat and so on.

The people lived in the "tent" of their own-----------------------a wood piled up outside to catch birch bark or fur. The center is empty and you can see the stars at night.

The people will be buried in the earth or buried in the trees after the death of the e-gram.

The contents of this book

This book, in the tone of a 90-year-old Ewenki woman, describes her experience from childhood to old age. The early morning, noon, dusk, Half Moon as the time point, so as to explain her childhood, youth, women, the elderly several stages.

As a child, often afraid of the uncle and the shaman, often hear Father link and mother in the column of the "Wind". Later father died, mother and Nidusa love but dare not love tangled.

When he was an adult, he met his beloved, and later her husband died.

Middle-aged again met the sheikh next door, and began the second spring.

The old age began to split, some people like to live in a fixed place like Han Chinese people, and some people like to follow the reindeer with the season migration. At last she stayed in the mountains with her grandson, Ann.

A poignant love Story

There are a lot of poignant love stories, such as Ivan and Russian girls, because of the Japanese rule in Manchukuo, to kill the Russians, so Ivan's wife worried about the safety of their children and fled back to Russia.

For example, Father Link and mother and Nidusa between the love, the year two brothers fell in love with the mother, and finally decided to play. Eventually Lin took the mother, and Nidusa was not married for a lifetime. When his father died, the shaman made a beautiful feather skirt for his mother, who often looked at her skirts and wept. Because the love between them is not allowed by the people.

The faith of the shaman

Shaman is the god of the world, they help the dying people through the "Tiaoshen". In the book, Nicole Hao is because of helping others, each of their children have dedicated life.

And the people also believe in the Vulcan and the mountain gods, they save fire, the power of the flame.

At the same time also determined that the gods inviolable.

For example, those who kill animals, the ancient trees to urinate in the Han Chinese people despise the mountain God and suffer punishment.

After reading the thought

This book has a unique tone and perspective to make people understand the life and customs of such a minority.

We should also pay attention to the relationship between environment and people.

"The right Bank of Argun"--a summary after reading