How did Liang Xiaosheng's first novel, Golden Age, come about? Liang Xiaosheng's novel," The Golden Age," was written in the late 1980s and was inspired by news reports and literary works about Chinese rural areas and farmers that he came into contact with during his university days. In the novel, Liang Xiaosheng described a young man born in a poor rural area who found a job in the city and became a white-collar worker through hard work. However, he found that life in the city was not as good as he had imagined, because the social class division and the complexity of interpersonal relationships made him feel confused and helpless. In the process of writing this novel, Liang Xiaosheng thought deeply about the gap between urban and rural areas in China, education fairness, social problems and other topics. He also drew lessons from many different literary works and news reports to create this novel with depth and breadth. " Golden Age " received widespread attention and praise. It was considered one of Liang Xiaosheng's representative works and one of the milestone works for Chinese online novels.