The book is about lowliness of life, poverty, disease, and death and weakness, obscurantism, and resistance of human nature through describing parturition, reproduction, and human relation of people in a village in northeast China.A penetrating and profound interpretation of human nature and human survival are made.In the aspect of literature expression, the novel is similar to movie and literary scenario, which pays attention to scene and details and is full of image, token, and mutual metaphor, thus it is a poetic tragedy works.
