"The rising earth" is an image found by the author of this book in the experiences of Chinese rural areas encountering modernity. It is neither sticking to the ground blindly, nor is it pulling its own hair away from the ground and chasing an unrealistic alternative life. The "rising land" is embodied in Edgar Snow's happy revolutionaries' new feeling for the backward northwest, and it is embodied in the revolutionary intellectuals who have transformed the Yellow River, which has become "China's death", into Chinese in the world. The source of power for competition in the order is embodied in the way Lu Yao seeks for the rural youth to succeed in the city, and is embodied in the spiritual background given by Liu Cixin to science fiction literature with the experience of the Third World Revolution.