The City of the Gan Army is a novel written by Liu Xiao. In terms of its internal properties, it’s actually a novel with macro themes under the stipulations of the contemporary literary system. Based on the richness of female self-consciousness, family values and regional custom, it describes the transcending ethnic identity, the national imagination, and the intention of acquiring a kind of transcendental cultural identity. When it comes to narrative techniques, the novel shapes the hero in a substitute and repetitive way and try to seek a balance between maternal feelings and manliness. On account of that, the novel constructs the heroic lineage of the Gan Army, which further enriches the “land” connotation of the Xiangxi world.