The Selected Works of Xia Tianmin includes eight novellas: Two Great Sheep, Around Wangyun Lake, To Kiss in Chang’an Street, A Big Osmanthus Tree, A Flying Village, Cold Chain, North, North, and Fish in the Earth. Two Great Sheep won the Third Lu Xun Literature Award. These works tell stories of the barren plateau in northeast Yunnan Province, Southwest China. While giving an account of the tough, monotonous and primitive living conditions in the rural areas as well as ignorance and conservative thinking of farmers, they also portray the strong desire to change among the new generation of farmers.