Lupins was written with spare, unadorned realism, reflecting the struggles of the rural intelligentsia in engaging their ideals for the advancement of Taiwanese society. Chung's unprecedented achievement was to finally win a mass audience for Taiwanese literature.
《魯冰花》因著樸實無華的寫實主義風格，反映了鄉村知識份子的淑世理想，與台灣社會匍伏前行的歷史遺痕，為本土作家首度贏得大眾掌聲。