Old people "let go" by the modern era This theme of tragedy resulting from changing times has appeared in Huang's earlier work, in "Cymbal," for example, which was strongly influenced by Lu Xun's The Story of Ah Q.
被現代「放生」的老人這種因為時代改變造成之衝突悲劇主題，在黃春明的經典名作《鑼》裡，又再度出現。