'White Deer Plain' is the icon of contemporary Chinese literature, the best selling work of Mao Dun Literature Prize winner. It intergrates family history with national history, which stands out from works of similar theme with its rich historical touch and complex characters, making it a rare masterpiece in contemporary Chinese literature. It is an epic, 50-year long change of Weihe Plain, a colorful and shocking scroll of Chinese countryside. The protagonist marries 6 times and became a widower 6 times, even the mysterious prelude indicates ill omen.