It is about Mo Yan's personal experience. Mo Yan is a well-known contemporary writer, whose representative works include Red Sorghum, White Dog Swing Fram and The Transparent Carrot . Many of his works have been adapted into movies. Born in Gaomi, Shandong, he started writing after retiring from the army. In 1985, his Red Sorghum caused a sensation in the fiction circle. In September 2006, Mo Yan won the Asian Cultural Award.