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A work that contains substantial real-life content. About the author: Xiao Yinong is from Baoding, Hebei. Graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University, and later graduated from the Graduate School of Beijing Normal University with a Master of Arts. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association. Started publishing works in 1973. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1987. He is the author of the TV drama script "Mountain Love" (which has been recorded and broadcast), and has published hundreds of long, medium and short stories, essays, reportage, film and television literature and other dramas, totaling more than 3 million words. The novella "Red Olive" won the "October" Literary Award and the Suolongga Literary Award; the short story "Mountain Wind" won the Lu Xun Literary Award and the Suolongga Literary Award; the novel "Fellow Travelers" won the first prize of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Reform Theme Award; "Maroon Acrylic Shirt" won the Tianjin Lu Xun Literary Award; the radio drama script "Red Olive" (recorded and broadcast) won the World Chinese Critics Gold Award, and his works also won the 1993 Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award.

"Black World" refers to the Ordos Plateau where I grew up. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was an extremely splendid agricultural civilization. At that time, there were many counties and counties, with straight roads crossing them. Later, it was reduced to desert grassland and became a good pasture for the Mongolian people of Ordos. Genghis Khan's tomb is enshrined in the Ordos Plateau and has become a holy place for the Mongolian people. My novel "Black World" was written a hundred years ago. The Qing Dynasty reclaimed the Ordos Plateau and built countless reclamation bureaus on the grassland. Foreigners, businessmen, princes, warlords, and landlords formed interest groups. They used their power, talent and wisdom to plunder the people's wealth, ruined the Mongolian pastures, planted opium poppies crazily, and used money to encourage the ambitions of the villagers. In the end, Black World was turned into a mess beyond recognition. At the end, I asked Jin Laowan, the protagonist in the book, to tragically open the mouth of the Yellow River and soak the Wuli Reclamation Bureau and the dark world that devours people's conscience in the rolling Yellow River.