"Lamps Under the Yellow Plains" is a masterpiece of local literature focusing on rural changes in northern Shaanxi. By telling the medical epic of Zhou Weidong, an educated youth from Beijing, and Wang Xiu'e, a girl from northern Shaanxi, from knowing each other to taking root in the wilderness, it shows the resonance of individual destiny and local spirit during the transformation period of Chinese society. The story begins with the educated youth going to the mountains and countryside in 1969, and runs through the storm of returning to the city in the early days of reform and opening up. The core conflict revolves around "the benevolence of doctors" and "persistence in the countryside", exploring the collision between modern medical technology and traditional ethics, and the game between personal ideals and the current of the times.
