《金水长流》以原长篇小说《无产者》为基础改写而成。《无产者》始作于１９７３年秋，时在“文化大革命”期间，批判林彪的“政治可以冲击一切”的反动路线，其实也就是批判“四人帮”。激愤成书，构思仓卒，又受到时代的局限与形势的逼迫，说了一些违心的话，错误的话和打掩 “Golden Flow” based on the original novel “proletarian” as the basis rewritten. When the “proletarians” started out in the autumn of 1973, when he criticized Lin Biao’s reactionary line of “politics can impact everything” during the “Cultural Revolution,” he actually criticized the “gang of four.” Indignation into a book, hasty ideas, but also by the limitations of the times and the situation of persecution, said some words of the contrary, the wrong words and fight