Abstract:Jiang Yibin’s long novel The Fire Carp builds a typical image of traditional farmers with compassion and respect. Hard life, bleak fate, simple contentment and noble guardian gather in those farmers paradoxically. They are no longer individuals, but the symbol of the whole farmers. Such typed and plazied account demonstrates the identical situation and similar fate of traditional farmers. Simultaneously, it portrays images of the farmers constituted by individuals of the same feature, identical situation, similar fate, and that forms the historical image of last traditional farmers, which has great historical cognition value.