The content includes: introduction to Nalan Xingde's life, Nalan Xingde's creative path, characteristics and influence of drinking water poems, representative works of drinking water poems, research work on drinking water poems, and inheritance and development of drinking water poems. The contents include: Sima Xiangru's gifted talents, Cao Zhi's eloquent diction and his eloquence of Luo Shen, Han Yu's literary decline in the Eight Dynasties, Ouyang Xiu's articles to carry on the past and open up the future, Luo Guanzhong's beginning to write Zhang Hui style novels, Cao Xueqin's peak novels in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Jingzi's classical satirical novels, etc.
