One aspect is on the style of painting color usage,that is: different color styles reached its own peak because of different social fashions and in different times;The other aspect is on the second color effect which caused by self-oxidation of color due to the age-old and a number of man-made factors.

The traditional culture of hometown, special experience of life and deep country consciousness make his novels with strong country color.

In this version, Zhang Guruo mainly uses the strategies of adopting four-character phrases, dialect-for-dialect translation and translating with annotations, which are studied by scholars and cause many controversies, but these studies ignore the main function of all these strategies, namely, representing the strong country color of the original novel.