This work tells the story of a love tragedy that occurred in a small county on the Loess Plateau in the mid-to-late 1970s. The work takes the intricate emotional entanglements between three high school students, Gao Xuanyun, Zhang Shan, and Li Qiuyan, as the main line, with Peng Hui's unrequited love for Zhang Shan, the old scholar's sincere concern for Gao Xuanyun, and Teacher Zhu's enthusiastic help for Li Qiuyan as sub-lines. It connects the background of the era of great changes with the characters' infatuated love activities to promote the development of the storyline. It softens the characters' psychological activities and strange and grotesque dreams, and shows the characters' mental processes and emotional trajectories. It is tear-jerking and sad to read, and it can bring you a special emotional experience.
Purpose: Through a poignant love story, it reveals the complexity of human nature and the weirdness of emotions. It not only brings aesthetic experience and emotional pleasure to readers, but also warns people to eliminate all kinds of bad emotions and beware of the negative influence of people around them when dealing with emotional issues between the sexes.