The author, Jia Pingwa is one of China's most popular authors of novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. He was the winner of the 2009 Mao Dun Literature Prize. This is his collection of prose from 1981 to 2019 totaling 66 articles with more than two hundred thousand words. He highlighted the pieces of nature such as flowers, rivers, and emotions towards them. Readers can see the restoration of purity of nature as well as thoughts towards living beings.