Translation: A wealthy family occasionally got two wolf cubs and mixed them with domestic dogs to feed them. The wolves and the dogs lived in peace.
From: Ji Xiaolan [Qing Dynasty] "Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage".
Original sentence: There was a wealthy family who occasionally got two wolf cubs, who lived with the domestic dogs and lived in harmony with the dogs. Slightly longer and quite tame. He forgot he was a wolf. One day in the living room, I heard a group of dogs whining and making angry noises. I was startled and saw no one around.
Explanation: A rich family occasionally got two wolf cubs, and they were raised together with the family dogs, and they got along well with the dogs. A little bigger, but still very tame. I actually forgot that it was a wolf. One day, while I was lying in the living room during the day, I heard a group of dogs whining and barking in anger. I woke up and looked around to see no one.
Extended information:
Creative background
The creation of "Yuewei Cottage Notes" began in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong and ended in the third year of Jiaqing (1789-1798) , which lasted ten years, approximately when Ji Yun was between 66 and 76 years old.
The seventeenth century was an era of extremely acute class and ethnic conflicts in Chinese history. The social conditions of great turmoil and great struggles were rapidly changing, which strongly promoted the development of the ideological field. Under the influence of the progressive thoughts of his predecessors, Ji Yun advocated the reality-based research of Sinology and despised the hypocrisy and empty talk of Song Dynasty.
In Ji Yun's view, this group of Taoists are full of theories of "preserving heaven's principles and destroying human desires" and regard human desires as sin and the greatest evil. In order to express his thoughts, Ji Yun began to use words to outline and satirize the hypocrisy of these false Taoists, and severely rebuked and criticized the false Taoism.
At the same time, as Chinese literature developed into the Qing Dynasty, all writing models had taken shape, especially the fantasy novels, which had formed a complete development system by the Qing Dynasty. Against this background, Ji Yun absorbed The experience of predecessors, on the other hand, opened up new models on the basis of predecessors, and combined inheritance and innovation to produce this work.
"Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" also contains some chapters describing princes, nobles, wealthy businessmen, and bully landlords who rely on their power to commit crimes. For example, Volume 20 describes a wealthy businessman who, seeing the beauty of someone else's bride, immediately became evil and set a trap to steal the bride, causing her husband to die of grief, anger and melancholy. The author fully exposes the insidious methods of wealthy businessmen and the evil forces supported by money.
In the fourth volume, it is written that after a businessman became rich, he refused to help an old man who had supported him for more than ten years and helped him become rich in business. He was unkind and ungrateful because of his wealth. A sorcerer named Yang took the money away and returned it to the old man. These chapters fully reveal the extremely acute social contradictions at that time, and also expose the moral decline of these people; they were shameless, profit-seeking, corrupt and ugly, and completely ignored.