Thanks to The Earth, I saw the mission and strength in An Xin, the great change in the "lonely city", and the bright future of my grandmother's small village. After reading The Earth, I realized that I was very close to An Xin and very far away from her.
--Chen Ya

This is Yang Yao's first novel, which is particularly noteworthy. As the name suggests, this is a novel that takes root in the earth and grows naturally from the soil of life. In this work, there are a variety of people with stories, interpreting vivid human affairs. At the end of the novel, all the villagers stood in the wind and snow, singing their folk songs to send the "protagonist" home for the Spring Festival, and the world was moved by it. Reading this book is like walking in the wind of time, creating unique memories
-- Qiu Huadong

This is Yang Yao's painstaking effort to take root in the earth. The simulated narrative draws out the details of today's rural reality, revealing a fresh and earthy atmosphere everywhere—— Su Tong.
--Su Tong

★ Recommended by Su Tong, Qiu Huadong, Zhang Ning and Cheng Shaowu! A realistic work by the famous Chinese writer Yang Yao, starting from a front-line narrative in the countryside of northern China, it tells the story of helping the poor first and the journey of change from an isolated city to a non-isolated one, reflecting the great changes of China's social and economic transformation from the countryside to the city.
★ This is a novel that takes root in the earth and grows naturally from the soil of life. In this work, there are a variety of people with stories, interpreting vivid human affairs. When writing, the author meticulously describes the real experience and emotional experience, and while balancing the grand narrative of history, vivid lives, true and moving stories jumped out of his pen.
★ If someone cannot tolerate his spiritual poverty and understand the dignity and beauty of labor, he will surely break free from the "hidden disease" and move towards the solemn place of the vast earth.

An Xin was originally a staff member of the Provincial Cultural Center. She was beautiful, had calligraphy talent, married well, and had two children. She is a living example of the current "life winner". It is difficult to connect such a glorious life with the isolated city of Lvliang Mountain, which is short of water and depressed, barren and backward. She went to the isolated city to help the poor, which was originally a timely move, but in the small environment where the original intention of poverty alleviation was perfunctory and the concept of poverty alleviation was weakened, she accidentally became the "chosen" person, and what she "never expected" was...

Yang Yao is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and Vice Chairman of the Shanxi Writers Association. In 2001, he began publishing works and published over 2 million words in publications such as People's Literature, Dangdai Bimonthly, October, and Harvest. Multiple works were reprinted and included in the selection of the annual works. The novel collections The Second Brother's Blockhouse, A Hard Knife, We Are Going Old Quickly, Liunian, The Village Dies, Soft Buddha Light, Shining Rails, etc., and the long reportage "Beautiful Language - Stories of Poverty Alleviation in Shanxi (co-authored). He has won awards such as the Zhao Shuli Literature Award, the October Literature Award, the Shanghai Literature Award, the Yellow River Excellent Novel Award, and the Shanxi Literature Excellent Writer Award. His works have a high recognition in the Chinese literary world. His novels mainly focus on and reveal the living conditions of the lower class, with some focusing on documentaries and depicting the life experiences of small people from the perspective of "me". They use descriptions and scrapbooking to restore the original ecology of life.