Wolf's Milk is attractive to young Chinese.
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When I first heard the expression "Growing up on wolf's milk", I thought that the youth who had survived the first 25 years of the PRC didn't have much else to eat.I wondered how they would be able to get enough milk from she-wolves to make a difference.
I thought for a moment that starving children were going out into the woods and looking for wolf's milk, which grows on rotten logs from June through November.The expression "growing up on wolf's milk", which was used in PRC parlance from the 70s and later, was being used metaphorically to describe the hardship experienced by those who experienced the privations of early communist rule in China.
Some younger Chinese who never experienced the sufferings of the fifties, sixties, and seventies are looking back on that period with a kind of pseudo-nostalgia.
Growing up during the Cultural Revolution means a "tough upbringing" according to the "wolf's milk" trope.
It was used in an article by a Sun Yat-Sen University professor in which Freezing Point magazine was closed for a couple of months in January 2006 without an editor.
20 shj 70 nindi m.
2070,
In the late 70s.The three disasters of the Anti- Rightist Campaign, Great Leap forward, and Cultural Revolution were caused by the fact that people had grown up on wolf's milk.I was startled to see that our youth are still drinking wolf's milk, more than twenty years later.
The well-known, and relatively outspoken, historian expressed his displeasure on reading some of China's modern history high school textbooks.There were dangerous distortions of the historical record.The Garden of Perfect Brightness, the imperial Manchu demesne, and the Boxer rebellion of 1900 were all described in highlyselective and ideologically-driven ways.The irrational spirit guiding history teaching in China endangers the country's mature and rational participation in the global community.He said that the violence of the Red Guard generation was caused by a biased education.
During the early months of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards attacked all things foreign because they were convinced that the outside world was trying to subvert China's revolution.Many people would lose their lives in the ensuing mlée, although very few people will admit to being involved with murder today.One of the former Red Guards who is candid about her past is a US-based academic.She remembers that her teachers were taken aback by the fury of the young rebels.She wonders why they were surprised that we acted like wolves.We had been fed a constant diet of wolves milk at school.In his article on teaching history in China today, he observed that children are still being fed wolves milk.
Boxun, April 5, '06: "Tnggu Hny gibin ZhNGGU " is a song by Teng Biao.
Dngbo shln t.Hi yu b zh gng "wéigun".
Is there a word for it?
According to the style of Party newspaper editorials and the tune of the news broadcast, totalitarianism dominates our thinking habits and our aesthetic habits as an official aesthetic.Through language, thinking and unconsciousness, "Wolf's milk" has become the blood in our veins.Is there more power than these?
The Freezing Point article was originally published in 2002 in the magazine D'ngfng wénhu.
"'Lngni' shhu ''" was written by Xu Shili.
There are references to growing up on wolf's milk in the above article.I recall that similar stories exist for the foundation myths and legends of other Central Asia peoples, but I will not.
This kind of thinking is what informs the blockbuster propaganda films "Wolf Warrior" and Wolf Warrior 2 as well.
The word lycogalactic means "made of, resembling or pertaining to wolf's milk" and was inspired by the very peculiar slime mold I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
There is a reference to Lycogala sp.Language Log readers may be interested in it.It's a plasmodial mold.The pages on Myxogastria are rather extraordinary.
The name of the group was given to it byMicheli, who said it means "wolf's milk".
The lowly slime molds are not worthy of our attention.They are at the cutting edge of research.
The video "How Brainless SlimeMolds Redefine Intelligence" is from Scientific American.
Trump does not have a science adviser.There is a mold for this.Hampshire College has a mold on its faculty.It is working on border policy.By Brian Resnick
The mold is Hampshire College's first nonhuman resident scholar.Hampshire College is a liberal arts college that doesn't have "majors" and hosted an event about the effects of mass incarceration through dance.
With the help of human research assistants, the slime mold is using the problem-solving skills it acquired over a billion years of evolution to tackle policy problems.The project is at the intersection of science, philosophy, and art.Natural forms of intelligence exist outside the human mind.
slime molds are for having no brain or neurons.They are able to solve complex problems with extreme efficiency.They are naturally nonpartisan.
The experimental philosopher who convinced Hampshire to promote the mold to the ranks of its faculty and who penned the letters interpreting their work says thatlime molds are not Republicans and they are neutral.He says that by observing what they do, it could be a way of getting out of our assumptions.
There are free-floating single cells.When two or more mold cells meet, they cause the cell membranes that separate each individual to fall apart.Two individuals with their own genetics can be in the same body.There is no limit to how many people can join the collective.Each cell of the slime mold makes decisions that benefit the whole collective.
The lay of the land is assessed when slime molds are placed in a new environment.They will reinforce the pathway if they find something beneficial to them.They will recoil if they find something they don't like.
Through this process, slime molds can solve a lot of problems.
The slime molds will find ways to connect the sources of food with the shortest possible routes if you spread oats on a map.They will find ways to avoid salt if you add it to the map.When scientists model metropolitan areas in this way, with the food representing centers of dense populations, slime mold can reproduce maps like this map of the Tokyo rail system.It took a long time for human engineers to map out the system.It took a few hours to make the mold.
Victor Mair filed under language and culture, politics, Language and science.
Victor says that slimy moulds are worth studying.I have spent a lot of time looking at their behavior through a microscope.
I wasn't impressed with the discussion at the end of The China Story translation of the interview with Yuan Weishi.He says something.
The Han did not form a separate country and there were no separate regions for them.The central government of a multi-ethnic country can protect minority rights, but it is not possible to punish criminals of other ethnic groups.
The term hanjian was first used by the Qing emperors.It was a repudiation of the Han Chinese who helped the Manchus.The Manchu emperors put the most emphasis on 'fidelity' instead of praising these people.This meant condemning the traitors who delivered the country into their hands and praising those who had supported the Ming dynasty.The term 'Han traitor' was used.Yuan Weishi seems to overlook the historical background in his discussion.
I agree with his assessment that nationalist propaganda has made young people less tolerant.Young people are more angry about what the Japanese did during WWII than they have been before.If youth is brought up with a hardline nationalist slant, the opportunity for any kind of rapprochement or understanding can only end up dead in the water.One is struck by the out-and-out intransigence of many young commenters on forums where young Chinese can vent their views in English.
I recall that there are similar stories for the foundation myths and legends of Central Asia peoples.
Vovin accepted Pulleyblank's suggestion that the origin of the loanword "milk" might be in Yeniseian.
There is no Turkish/Turkic legend about this topic.Since the 20th century in Turkey.There are similar 'fake' legends related to the gray wolf.
Turcologists, as well as Turkish historians, interpret the story of the gray wolf from Rashidu'd-din as "Turkish Legend".There is a story about Turks in Chinese annals, but we don't have a parallel version in Turkic sources.
The story is believed to be Turkish by Turkish historians from the 20th century.
The English translation of the Jamiut-tawarikh is by W.M.Thackston.
M. Weiers used to insist that we learn Persian in order to read the history written in Persian.
I have not encountered any reference to the ethnogonic tales of the Trks that were reported in Chinese and Tibetan sources.Mehmet is correct.There are fake legends based on Rashd ad-Dn.The wolf tale and wolf's milk tales may have been around before Rashd.In his section on the Turkic peoples, Gardzi recounts a tale in which the facial hair of the Turks was attributed to the wolf's milk.abb: 547, 'Gardz's Two Chapters': 118, Dromp.Many medieval Muslim and Jewish nations share the same Japhetic origin of the Turks.
Most of this goes back to the oral traditions of the Turkic people.There is an article that has not yet appeared.Hayrettin hsan Erko wrote an article.Trk Mitlerindeki Motifler (VI.-VIII) is a musical instrument.This ground is covered by the Journal of Old Turkic Studies.The ruling clan of the Trks was born of a female wolf in the Zhoushu and Suishu origin tales, and this idea was suckled by that.Gardz is a writer.The accounts ofGardizi on the History of Central Asia went back to the 8th century.The Nart Sagas are common to a number of North Caucasian peoples and involve a figure akin to the Ashina descendant: rzmek.The color blue is important in ancient Turkic lore and the young child was found in a blue rock.There was a young hero who had seized a huge wolf by the neck and was suckling from her, while birds circled about.The young child became the size of a three-year old by the time Debet reached him.Debet wanted to rear him as a blacksmith, but the Nart shepherds insisted that he would be a great hero.He changed his name to rzmek after being called "Wolf Suckling".The Nart Sagas were recorded by scholars in modern times from villagers who never read the Zhoushu or Suishu.I wrote an article about the Aina Tradition and the Qaraay Nart Tale.M. Alpargu and Y. ztrk are from Sakarya.51, 2007): 149- 169
Wolf's milk does not have a negative role in the Turkic tradition.It shows their supernatural origins.
Does the great Ilkhanid wazr make a distinction between Turks and Mongols?We know that the Ilkhanids continued to speak and write Mongolian in his time, so he must have been aware that they spoke completely different languages.The Turks of his time didn't pretend to be related to the Jinghizkhanid.If he made this ethnic distinction, who does he credit with his wolf story?
The gentilic "turk/atrk" is used in a generic way by Rashd.Aqwm-i turk or atrk often includes the Mongols.It refers to any of the northern peoples, just as Saqliba was used to mean the "Slavs".The ruler of the Volga bulgar is referred to asmalik as-Saqliba.The Ilkhanids were still talking.There is evidence that it was still used in some circles.I don't know if the Qpchaqs and other Turkic tribes under the Chinggisid rule claimed connections.This came later with dynasties.The khanates had legitimate claims to the Chinggisid descent.
I'm sure you're aware that there are some words of theirs mentioned by some contemporary Arabs, and that they also have some documents that survived.Is the wolf story related to the Atrk / aqwm-i Turk?
Both the secret history.De Rachewiltz and Rashid al-Din.Thackston, vol.The animals being humanized in R al-D's version are descended from a wolf and a doe.The wolf is the male partner, so no wolf's milk!The account of R al-D is likely to come from the Altan Debter.Tom Allsen sees the Altan Debter as a collection of material or an archive, rather than a chronicle to be compared with the Secret History.The AD doesn't seem to have survived, so we only know of its contents from other sources.
There is more than one evidence that the Ilkhanids were talking.I didn't mean to say that the only source I know of is the Hexaglot.The wolf tale was not linked to the Aqwam-i Atrk.There is no evidence that he was aware of the Kk Trk Empire.His second section deals with the tribes of the Atrk who are now called Mul.My sense of his text is that he is referring to the Turko-Mongolian peoples as a generic term.
Even if they spoke different languages, they were all the same.
Is there a connection between the stories of Romulus and Remus, or is it just the coincidence of a finite number of animals being used in myths of the type?
Brte Cino-a, or Gray Wolf, is the apical descendant of Chinggis Khaan.In the Russian film оно /Mongol, the main character becomes engaged to and later married a girl called Brte.
The color blue is important in ancient Turkic lore and the young child was found in a blue rock.
One would expect a finite number of animals to be used in myths.
If you want an origin story for a leader, a wolf is the only choice because there aren't any other pack-hunting predators north of the area where lions can be found.
Abu Shma made a famous comment about the defeat of the Mongols by the Mamlks.The Arabs believed that the Turks and the Mongols were the same people.Their features were the same.The same perspectives held true for Rad when he lived in Iran.He got a lot of information from native sources.
Most probably, the LMC is blue.In Kk Trks, see "The Royal Clan of the Turks and the Problem of Early Turkic-Iranian Contacts" by S.G. Klyashtornyi.445-447.There are other theories, but this seems to work best.
The "drinking wolf's milk" phrase is related to brainwashing.I was reminded of the phrase commonly used in English to describe the same phenomenon.
I don't think the use of "wolf" symbolism in films like "Wolf Warrior" and " Wolf Warrior 2" is a bad thing.Wolves are viewed negatively in China, unlike in other parts of the world.Wolf milk is associated with hardship and toxicity; having a "wolf's heart" is another way of saying cruel, and many proverbs reference the wolf in a negative way.In recent centuries, wolf symbolism has gained a more popular association with masculine nationalism through works like "Wolf Totem," which promoted the "wolf mentality" associated with Mongolians as a positive stereotype.The use of wolf symbolism in "Wolf Warrior" is influenced by this latter sense.
One is struck by the out-and-out intransigence (often accompanied by a lack of balance and at times helpings of ignorance) of many young commenters on forums where young Chinese can vent their views in English.
Chinese postings in English forums are not representative of the whole population.The negative portrayal of China in the Anglophone world combined with persistent ethnic stereotypes is likely to cause powerful defensive reactions and encourage radical nationalism.This isn't limited to other countries.People from the Middle East have similar experiences.
The 1985 Wolf Album is the album and title song which really launched his career.I think this is the 1997 version of his 1985 version.The song is about a wolf in the wild, trying to find a place for itself, and hoping for a better future.It lives a lonely life and is often in danger.A wolf is cunning, tough and sometimes cruel because of its instinct to survive.Its only hope is to find a larger grassland that has better living conditions.Chin sees himself as a wolf, running in a poor land in the cold wind.Chin once said that this song sings out his loneliness and his expectations for the future, but to always be positive like the wolf in the song.Don't give up, hold onto your hopes and dreams.
Chin was born on January 12, 1960.He began his career in 1981 with the album See her Slip Away Again.He was in a teenage correction centre when he received his first guitar from his sister.He says that he owes his success to his sister.They formed a strong bond over time.He also has a sister.More than 25 albums have been put out by Chin.He has been to mainland China many times.Audiences called him "a Wolf from the North" as they believed the unconstrained singing and hair-raising howls were more to a singer in the north.
He rose to fame in China again after appearing on the hit talent shows "I am a Singer" and "The Voice of China".He is highly respected in the Chinese pop music scene.
I can't remember if the phrase "eating bear meat" was a common phrase in Italian or if it was something he invented.
Wolves are viewed negatively in China, unlike in other parts of the world.
I can't comment on its etymological validity since it may simply represent folk etymology, but the idea that the Japanese word "kami" for wolf comes from the Roman/Mongolian camp puts Japan in a different position than the Chinese one.
I have never run across a ref who was interested in the milk of all herd animals.To wolf's milk.
The lost Mongolian records fed into several Chinese sources, including the YUANSHI.He gathered oral traditions from people stationed in Iran.I have seen wolves in this material many times, but only in the ethno-genetic mythologies.