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"Iron Net and Bronze Hook" is a novel describing the life of fishermen in Poyang Lake in the 1940s. Using the centuries-old armed struggle between two major fishing villages as a basic clue, the author describes the life of people at the bottom of society under the patriarchal system with their ancestral names, ancestral properties, and ancestral land as their sutras, and with benevolence, emotion, and violence as their latitudes. It has created the image of a group of fishermen with distinctive personalities who are marked by the times and regions. Together with the ups and downs of the storyline and the unique regional customs, it truly reproduces the social characteristics and the fate of the characters of that era. The author also keeps making metaphors and questioning in the book: Who can break through the iron net of traditional concepts and break away from the copper hook of real interests? Today, it is not difficult for us to still see the shadow of people's behavior in that era. Society needs to abandon the old and pursue the new amidst profound changes. Therefore, this work has its unique social value and practical significance.