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"Floating Clouds in the Sea" is the third part of the "Yangtze River Trilogy", the representative work of writer Yan Guopei. It can be an independent chapter, but also has continuity with the first two parts, "Whirlpool" and "Bashan Moon". The background of the story is set in the special historical period after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, the Chinese people were eager for peace, freedom and democratic life. However, the Kuomintang reactionaries openly launched a civil war and created the "Jiaochangkou Incident" that shocked the country. Against this historical background, the party's underground organization actively played a leading role, united patriotic democrats and the revolutionary masses, and launched a series of thrilling, difficult and tortuous struggles: mobs robbed graves and revealed the shape of ghosts; The work is full of legendary characters and is a colorful historical picture with many characters.

"Bashan Moon" is the second part of the "Yangtze River Trilogy", the representative work of writer Yan Guopei. Continuing the characters and stories in the previous film "Whirlpool", the novel further deepens the characterization of the characters. The novel uses the ups and downs of the Yangtze River shipping company "Mincheng Company" as a narrative clue to connect the political games of the National Government, the struggle for survival of the national industry, the spiritual dilemma of intellectuals, and the struggle for survival of the people at the bottom. The story temporarily comes to an end amidst the cheers of victory in the Anti-Japanese War. "Bashan Moon" takes Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War as the stage, showing the complex game of politics, military, and economy. It has strong local color and focuses on the geographical space of the Yangtze River Basin. With the Yangtze River Basin as the background, it depicts the customs, living habits, etc. Of the Three Gorges, Eastern Sichuan, and Chongqing areas. It has strong local color and life atmosphere, and presents readers with a picture of customs along the thousands-mile river.

"Whirlpool" is the first part of the "Yangtze River Trilogy", the representative work of writer Yan Guopei. This is a novel describing life in Sichuan and Jiangxi in the 1930s. Its main line is the struggle between the two major shipping companies, Fuling and Mincheng. Fuling has weak capital, outdated equipment, and backward management. Facing competition from Mincheng, which is strong and adopts advanced European and American business methods, it is on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhu Jiafu, the talented and resourceful new manager of China Economic and Trade Commission, made great efforts to rectify the situation and achieved a small revival. After that, Japanese businessmen, British businessmen and Kuomintang officials and businessmen were increasingly pursuing each other. Fuling chairman Gao Lun was determined not to be attracted by imperialism and bureaucratic capital, and resolutely merged with Mincheng. Another important clue in the novel is the work carried out by the party in the Sichuan River Sailors and the towns along the river in eastern Sichuan - mainly to establish the anti-Japanese national united front. Around these two lines, a number of large and small stories are organized, truly showing a broad picture of social life in eastern Sichuan in the mid-1930s.

This book is the "Yangtze River Trilogy", the representative work of the writer Yan Guopei, which consists of three parts: "Whirlpool", "Bashan Moon" and "Floating Clouds in the Sea". Among them, "Whirlpool" takes the competition in the Sichuan and River shipping industry in the 1930s as the main line, interspersed with the struggles of underground party organizations, and shows the survival dilemma and historical limitations of the national bourgeoisie in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. "Bashan Moon", as the second part of this series, continues the grand narrative of the previous work "Whirlpool" on the social changes in the Yangtze River Basin, and at the same time profoundly depicts the complexity of social contradictions during the Anti-Japanese War. As the final work of the series, "Clouds in the Sea" faithfully continues the grand narrative style of the first two works, vividly reproducing the social ecology during the revolutionary war, anti-Japanese war, and liberation war in eastern Sichuan and Chongqing.