Abstract: Chen Cang’s novel series of “Marching into City” focus on conflict of human nature for rural people faced with the dilemma: going into city or going back to the countryside. Not only older generation’s love to their hometown, but also their unease when living city are described in these novels. What’s more, a profound question is raised that how can those people keep their foothold in modern society when they can not go back to the hometown and fail to survive in the city. In a word, the modern people’s state of suspension, wandering and rootlessness, the sting of the current times, is revealed.

Key words: Chen Cang, Marching into City, Ta’er Ping