《朝内166人文文库•中国当代长篇小说:笨花》是作者潜心六年写出的一部与她过去任何作品均无可比性的大书。《朝内166人文文库•中国当代长篇小说:笨花》一改作者以往作品中关注女性命运、专注个人情感世界的基调，而是截取了清末民国初至上世纪四十年代中期近五十年的那个历史断面，以冀中平原的一个小乡村的生活为蓝本，以向氏家族为主线，在朴素、智慧和妙趣盎然的叙事中，将中国那段变幻莫测、跌宕起伏、难以把握的历史巧妙地融于"凡人凡事"之中。其时代风云的繁复波澜，世态风情的生动展示及人物命运在偶然中的必然，必然中的偶然......（The 166 Humanistic Library. Chinese Contemporary Novels: Stupid Flower is a work that the author wrote in great concentration for six years and has nothing comparable with any of her past works. It changes the tone of the author's previous works of focusing on the fate of women, and focusing on the emotional world of the individual, but intercepts the historical section of nearly fifty years from late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China to the middle of 1940s. It uses the life in a small village in the Central Plains as the original version, the Xiang family as the main line and skillfully blends the history which is unpredictable and is difficult to grasp into "mortal things" in the simple, wisdom and wit, lively narrative. Its complicated waves of the times, vivid display of social custom and fates of characters are the inevitability of chance and the inevitable contingency...）