There are three backgrounds for Jia Pingwa's creation of "The Wasted Capital" worth noting: First, Jia Pingwa faced too many psychological and spiritual problems. kind of relief. Secondly, the city Xi'an where he is located has an extremely huge fame effect. As a result, this created his unique arrogance and pain. And this kind of pride and pain can only be displayed in that atmosphere. Third, he lost the patience to grasp the current reality, and changed from a very social writer to a disappointed one. The writer himself also confessed his mental state when writing "The Wasted City": "First, I was suffering from hepatitis B and spent more than a year in the hospital, which was a disguised prison. The injection needles were concentrated, and it could be said that I had withstood thousands of arrows; eating There are large and small bags of Chinese grass, enough to feed a cow. Then my mother gets sick and needs surgery; then my father gets cancer and dies; then my husband dies, and he drags his young child back to live with his family; It was a lawsuit that entangled me endlessly; then I got involved in the rights and wrongs of the work unit because of him and suffered humiliation, until I fell into another more terrifying predicament, with overwhelming rumors..." In In such a mental state, Jia Pingwa deeply understood the decadence and absurdity of writers under the guise of culture, which is also the essence of "The Wasted Capital".