Chen Zhongshi was regarded as the 20th century China. His representative works included White Deer Plain, Chen Zhongshi's Collection of Fictions, and Alive. These works enjoyed a high reputation in the literary world and readers. His unique writing style, with profound historical and cultural background and unique personal experience as the material, portrayed a series of vivid and profound characters, known as the classic works in the history of Chinese novels. Therefore, Chen Zhongshi was regarded as a classic of the 20th century.