Frog is Mo Yan's eleventh novel, which has been brewing for more than ten years, writing for four years, revising the manuscript three times and concentrating on creation.

Summary: This novel takes the ups and downs of rural fertility history in the past 60 years as the main line, which truly reflects the difficult implementation process of family planning in Gaomi Northeast Township. By telling the life experience of Wan Xin, a rural female doctor who has been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years, this paper describes the arduous and complicated historical process that the country has gone through to control the excessive population growth and implement the national policy of family planning, and at the same time successfully created a vivid and touching image of rural gynecologists. Combined with the complicated phenomenon in the process of family planning, this paper analyzes the humble, embarrassing, tangled and contradictory spiritual world of intellectuals represented by the narrator tadpole.

The book consists of four long letters and a nine-act drama group, which inherits the consistent style of the author's local literature, with novel structure, distinct rhythm, delicate brushwork, simple, meaningful and full of tension. 20 1 1 Frog won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize. 20 12 Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his two realistic works full of magical realism, Fatigue of Life and Death and Frog.

Creative background: The theme of Frog is rural doctors and family planning. It's not that Mo Yan deliberately wrote this sensitive topic. Mo Yan was delivered to this world by menstruation, so Mo Yan writes novels, hoping to write menstruation into novels one day. The family planning that has been implemented for more than 30 years must be involved. Mo Yan's novel Frog mainly tells the life of Wan Xin, a rural doctor. This novel consists of five letters written by playwright Tadpole to Japanese writer Sugiyama Yoshi. The first four letters are accompanied by a long narrative about my aunt who has been a gynecologist for more than 50 years, including the life story of Tadpole himself. The fifth letter is accompanied by a drama about Aunt E and Tadpole herself.