The famous American scholar Walter Lippman proposed the theory of "pseudo-environment",he regarded that the mass media couldn t reflect the realistic environment as a mirror but to transfer the information by chosing and reconstructing the events in the world.

Since the middle of 1990s, Tie Ning novels always paid attention to the ordinary people in their ordinary lives, exhibiting their struggling hardly and gloomily in actual life, searching after immanent reasons for their such lives through historical source and modern environment, and showing consideration and affection for these people and their lives.