"Oh, Xiang Xue" is a short story with strong lyrical meaning, and it is also a famous work by Tie Ning. Based on Taiergou, a small mountain village in the north, the novel vividly describes the psychological activities of a group of rural girls, such as Xiang Xue, and describes the waves brought by the train that only stays for one minute every day to the quiet mountain village life. It expresses the girls' yearning for the civilization outside the mountain, their urgent mood to change the closed and backward mountain village and get rid of poverty, and also shows the girls' self-love and self-esteem and their pure hearts. The deeper significance of the novel lies in the corner of Taiergou, which describes the pain and joy of China's coming out of the historical shadow, getting rid of closure, ignorance and backwardness, and moving towards openness, civilization and progress after the reform and opening up.
Oh, Xiang Xue is a local literary work with great historical and cultural awareness in the history of new literature. The author insists on poetic aesthetic ideal, which makes him deeply attached to some areas of his native China and sing poetry in an isolated, barren and backward environment, especially the beauty of human nature and human feelings. On the other hand, he criticized the rural life rationally, showing double ambivalence. Another book, Oh, Xiang Xue Hai, contains short and medium-length articles.