《藏宝图的秘密》以上个世纪五六十年代为主要社会生活背景，故事前后延伸了百年，以生活在不同时期的三代北戴河人的悲欢离合，阴错阳差，追述了一个百转千回、精忠报国、促人深思的故事。故事由中国实施改革开放，加入世贸组织，进入全球经济大舞台，北戴河再一次牵动世人眼球的当代切入，这就有了长篇小说盘活百年历史沧桑的时间深度，拓展了北戴河中西文化交汇的空间宽度；而故事的主人翁由来自不同地域、国家，又与故事主线“寻根”、“寻宝”有着密切关联的“八只鸭探险队”的少年们为叙事的平台，这就使小说具有了追溯、融汇、穿插、重建的种种契机：祖辈的遭遇；父辈的巧遇；少年们的奇遇……其中所孕含的历史偶然与时代演绎的必然，同时为小说的寓意强化与新意的赋予提供了多种可能。（The Secret of the Treasure Map takes the social life in the 1950s-1960s as the main background. With a 100-year span, the story tells the happiness, sadness, and all sorts of accidental mishaps of three generations of Beidaihe people. It is a twisting and provoking story about loyalty to the country. From China's reform and opening up, accession to WTO, entering to the global economic stage, and Beidaihe's another contemporary penetration of the attention of the world...all these revitalize the time depth of this novel for its hundred-year vicissitudes, and expand Beidaihe's space width of intersection between Chinese and Western cultures. And the protagonists are the "eight ducks expedition team" composed of teenagers from different regions and countries and they have close relationship with the main clues--"root seeking" and "treasure hunting"; with this narration platform, this novel has all sorts of opportunities of tracing, integrating, interlude, and reconstruction: encounters of grandparents; hit-and-miss experience of parents; children's adventure... The historical accidental and inevitable interpretation of time in the story also provides a variety of possibilities for the allegorical enhancement and new conception of the novel.)...