The emotional entanglement between a man and five women.
An intellectual from a peasant family met four completely different women one after another and had different relationships with them. At the same time, his second sister-in-law, who was almost crazy due to the frustration of her marriage, also had secret feelings for him. These four women include talented women, official women, idiots, and prostitutes. Their relationships with the four women and their sisters-in-law reveal the rich and profound psychological and spiritual world of Nan Jianshe, who is deeply influenced by Confucian culture and is responsible for the eldest son of the family.
The novel uses the current broad and real life background, sets off the rich cultural heritage of northern Shaanxi, and creates vivid images of more than a dozen main characters. The novel only has more than 300,000 words, but the characters have extreme temperaments, and the daughters have different temperaments; Even if the characters are idle, they speak a few words to fully express their images. The relationships between the characters are interconnected, like the overlapping shadows of mountains, and the multiple images describe the current situation of life.
In "True Colors", the culture of northern Shaanxi is activated into elements one by one in this novel, recombined and given a fresh interpretation. The merits of this novel lie not only in its delicate and realistic details and its beautiful and romantic charm, but also in the literary content of the novel text itself.