《狼图腾》是2004年长江文艺出版社出版的图书，作者是姜戎。主要讲述了上个世纪六七十年代一位知青在内蒙古草原插队时与草原狼、游牧民族相依相存的故事。故事的背景发生在20世纪60年代末，中国大陆内蒙古最后一块靠近边境的原始草原。这里的蒙古牧民还保留着游牧民族的生态特点，他们自由而浪漫地在草原上放养着牛、羊，与成群的强悍的草原狼共同维护着草原的生态平衡。他们憎恨着狼――狼是侵犯他们家园的敌人；他们同时也敬畏着狼――草原狼帮助蒙古牧民猎杀着草原上不能够过多承载的食草动物：黄羊、兔子和大大小小的草原鼠。（This book with Jiang Rong as the author was published by Changjiang Literature and Art Press, mainly narrating an educated youth depended on each other with plain wolves and nomadic nations when he went to live and work in a production team in Inner Mongolia grassland of the mainland of China in 1960s to 1970s. The background of the story is at the end of 1960s at the last original grassland near the boundary in Inner Mongolia of the mainland of China. The Mongolian herdsmen still kept the nomadic ecological characteristics. Being free and romantic, they were breeding cattle and sheep on the grassland to maintain the ecological balance of the grassland with groups of fierce plain wolves. They hated the wolves – they were enemies invading their homes; while they respected the wolves – the wolves helped the herdsmen kill those herbivores which could not be overloaded for the grassland: Mongolian gazelles, rabbits and large and small grassland rats.）