Mo Yan's representative work was 'Red Sorghum'. The novel was first published in 2012. It narrated the history and legends of the Red Sorghums in Gaomi, Shandong Province, Mo Yan's hometown. It was considered a long novel full of magical realism and human depth. The topics involved in the novel included family, land, humanity, history, and times, which were deeply loved by readers. The Red Soroliang Family won the Nobel Prize in Literature and became one of Mo Yan's representative works.