Taking a river as the entry point, Su Tong’s long novel Riverside describs the living conditions of all kinds of people both on the river and riverside during the Cultural Revolution period. Compared with those vanguard novels he wrote in the past, Su Tong intentionally presents the destroy and extruding of history to people and directly points out the influence of history on people’s development. The river appeared repeatedly in other novels has also formed its potential symbol, and the ways of the teenager’s dealing with affairs in his grow-up time had been transfused more rational factors. At the same time, the writer had also mixed the history with people’s life and transfused new points to the river and humanity. The destiny of character had been saved successfully. Compared with the narrative pattern of his primary novels, Su Tong had made a breakthrough and trenscendence successfully in Riverside.