The opening "that" shows that the author is reminiscing about the past, but in fact, his mind is also "loess half a foot thick" Here, the author makes such a virtual: "Lanzhou" is not a real reference, but a reference to the local China; Mixed on the Water symbolizes a wandering state. After more than 30 years, I finally went home in the mature season of new wheat, which marks the spiritual success of going home and expresses the author's infinite attachment to the countryside. The wheat field became his deep image to express his local feelings. The meaning of this image is generalized. The author's nostalgia for the vast rural areas due to his hometown complex contrasts with the numbness and emptiness of people's spirit in industrial society, and poetry sublimates into a kind of spiritual homesickness.
The poem begins with "new wheat is ripe" and ends with "ripe wheat", mainly to set off the picture of the poem, not to highlight the profound meaning of the poem. Father came back sitting on a sheepskin raft, scattered and focused; "Old Brother/A Silent Night" and "Half-foot Thick Loess/Cooked Wheat" spread from the gathering. The former renders breadth, and the latter introduces depth on this basis, which makes this local painting outstanding. The description of his uncle in the poem is the author's concern for hardworking and honest people like his uncle. This concern is not simple sympathy and overlooking, but contains an understanding of happiness and suffering and a bitter and warm experience of life.