1985年发表的中篇小说《透明的红萝卜》是莫言的成名作、代表作,奠定了莫言小说创作的基调和风格,此后莫言几乎将创作视角完全转到对其故乡高密生活的描写。莫言在回忆《透明的红萝卜》的创作时说:“1984年初冬的一个早晨,我在解放军艺术学院的宿舍里做了一个梦。梦到一片辽阔的萝卜地,萝卜地中央有一个草棚,从那草棚里走出了一个身穿红衣的丰满姑娘。她手持一柄鱼叉,从地里叉起一个红萝卜,高举着,迎着初升的红太阳,对着我走来。这时起床的号声响了。我久久地沉浸在这个辉煌的梦境里,心里涌动着激情。当天上午,我一边听着课,一边在笔记本上写这个梦境。一周后,写出了草稿。又用了一周誊抄清楚。这算不算 The novella ”Transparent carrot“ published in 1985 is a masterpiece and representative masterpiece of Mo Yan, laying the keynote and style of Mo Yan’s fiction creation. Since then, Mo Yan has almost entirely shifted his creative perspective to the description of the dense life of his hometown. Mo Yan recalled the creation of ”transparent carrot“: ”One morning in the early winter of 1984, I had a dream in the dormitory of the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Arts. When I dreamed of a vast radish field, there was a grass in the middle of the radish field Shed, and out of that hut a full-blooded girl in a red dress, carrying a harpoon in her hand and carrying a carrot from the ground, holding it up against the rising red sun toward me Then I got up and the number rang, and I was immersed in this magnificent dream for a long time, and my heart filled with passion, and in the morning I listened to the lesson while writing this dream in a notebook .A week later, I wrote the draft It took another week to make a clear copy