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This book originated from the author's recollection of his childhood hometown from an old bowl after his hometown Tayu Bang was demolished. It was introduced from "A Offering Bowl" and was later divided into seven volumes. Each volume has a distinct theme, "keyword recall and writing", and uses objects as themes to describe the life of rural people in Jiangnan. The seven volumes are: "Geography" - unfolding from a single location, such as "West Alley" and "Cement White Field"; "Geography Attachment: Father's Old House" - unfolding from various parts of the old house, such as "Wangwu" and "Zhaotou Room"; "Annals of the Year" - based on various festivals; "Animal Chronicles" - based on animals, such as "cows" and "dogs"; "Insect Chronicles" - based on close insects, such as "dragonflies" and "fireflies"; "Agricultural Poems" - based on the life course of sowing, harvesting, and purchasing crops; "Biographies of Plants and Trees: Supplement to Farming Poems" describes various plants and trees that were close to each other in childhood. The author "creates biographies of things" and gathers the details of his childhood life as clues to write about the daily life of "people in nature" in his hometown: places, insects and animals, festivals, vegetation... Many memory fragments are gathered into a river of memory, restoring the texture of the Jiangnan countryside and outlining a vivid panoramic view of life in the Jiangnan water towns. It is a "literary natural local chronicle" and a "poetic memoir of Jiangnan scenery"