By shaping the image of the two generations of country gantlemen, One Hundred Years of Insolitude not only shows the folk life with Hunan characteristics, but also tries to pursue the survival mechanism of the local ethics and explore the root of traditional culture. On the one hand, through the depicting of the folk life in the works, its local ethics is displayed externally by analyzing two country gentlemens adherence to the traditional spirit; On the other hand, by describing the process of the deconstruction and reconstruction of local ethics, the writer tries to reconstruct the moral system in the contemporary rural society with the absence of traditional country gentlemen, and retrieve the simple life seeking goodness and beauty.