It was best to first read The Story of the Sahara Desert and How Many Flowers Fell in Dreams. The Story of the Sahara Desert was one of San Mao's most famous works. It described her personal experience in the Sahara Desert and her interaction with the local people. This book is full of real life details and emotional descriptions that can help readers better understand San Mao's cultural background and worldview. " How Many Flowers Fall in My Dream " was a collection of San Mao's essays that recorded her thoughts and feelings about life, love, kinship, friendship, and so on. The concise language and sincere emotions of this book were suitable for readers to better understand and feel San Mao's thoughts. These two books were both San Mao's representative works with high literary value and historical value. If you read these two books for the first time, you can start from them to better understand her thoughts and literary style.