In any case, that an odd-job laborer in an agricultural village attracted so much attention certainly makes him one of the most important characters in modern Chinese literature. The novel has not only been translated into 16 different languages but also has been the object of more than several million words of published criticism over 70-plus years.
不論如何，一個農村短工竟然引起這麼多人的熱切關注，不但被譯成十六國語言，七十多年來的評論也有幾百萬字，可說是中國現代文學鋒頭最健的人物之一。