Jia Pingao's Qin Qiang could be classified as either a prose or a novel. From a stylistic point of view," Qin Qiang " was a collection of Jia Pingwa's many prose works, including his observation of life, his thoughts on life, his reflection on history, and so on. Prose is characteristic of nature, humanity as the source material, freedom, undisciplined, emotional as the expression of the technique, focusing on the ideology and artistry. However, Qin Qiang was also regarded as a novel. In the novel, Jia Pingwa described the life and fate of a farmer to show the poverty, backwardness, and suffering of the people in China's rural areas. The narrative style of the novel was similar to that of traditional novels. It had the plot and the development of the characters, as well as dialogue and description. It had the basic characteristics of a novel. Therefore, Qin Qiang could be classified as either a prose novel or a novel prose. It was both a literary work and a collection of social observation and thinking.