Liu Shaotang (1936-1997)13 years old began to publish his works, and 15 years old became famous and was known as a "child prodigy" writer. His youth works mainly include short stories, green branches and leaves, singing of hawthorn, Mid-Autumn Festival, melon shed, private visits, and novels Paddle of Canal and Summer. The works of this period are fresh and elegant, and the countryside after the land reform is full of vitality, deeply influenced by Sun Li's works, and has the reputation of socialist "pastoral". After setbacks, his popularity increased greatly, and he successively published Ground Fire, Spring Grass, Wolf Smoke, Face of Jingmen, Melon Rain in Bean Shed as Silk, This Year, Ten Steps of Vanilla, Story in Liu Jingting, Wild Marriage, The Sorrow of People by the Water, etc./kloc- In addition, Liu Shaotang and the Grand Canal Local Literature System Collection (Volume 10) was published.

Liu Shaotang combined the gentle and lovely beauty of "Lotus Dian School" with the masculine beauty of "Zhao Yan Culture" and established a unique local literature system of the Grand Canal. Published 9 essays, including Native Land and Creation and Forty Years of Native Literature. 60 kinds of works, about 7 million words, are recognized as high-yield, excellent-yield and stable-yield writers. He also put forward "China style, national style, local characteristics, local theme"; The rural literature theory of "the intersection of the present and the past, the combination of urban and rural areas, natural taste, and taste for both refined and popular tastes". Describing and eulogizing the beautiful people who are ahead of the times, digging and supporting the beautiful things that represent the direction of the times, expressing the essence and mainstream of the times, describing and expressing poetic scenery and secular human feelings, in short, expressing and praising the beauty of the world, that is, the beauty of people, regions and scenery, are the most prominent features of Liu Shaotang's local novels.

In creation, Liu Shaotang inherited and carried forward the national style of China literature and pursued the combination of legend and truth. Popularization and artistry should be combined, and all progressive literature in the world should be actively studied, and some good expression methods and artistic skills should be used for reference. The language of Liu Shaotang's novels is lively, subtle and beautiful, vivid, poetic and musical, which is widely praised and highly praised. Liu Shaotang and his works are deeply loved by readers at home and abroad. More than ten works have won national awards, and many works have been translated into more than ten languages and distributed around the world.