The Legend of Hulan River was created in modern China in 1934. The novel depicted the lives, fates, and love of the people in the Hulan River basin with the northeast region from the 1930s to the 1950s as the background. The novel took the protagonist Browning's love experience as the main line, interwoven with the description of the local society, politics, history and culture, showing the life and destiny of the people in the Hulan River basin, as well as the various social ills and distortions of human nature at that time. The Legend of Hulan River was hailed as a classic of modern Chinese literature and was widely regarded as one of Xiao Hong's representative works, as well as a classic in the history of modern Chinese novels. The novel had a profound impact on the development of modern Chinese literature and thought, and was hailed as "an important milestone in the history of modern Chinese novels."