Among Ba Jin's novels, Autumn in Spring is the most poetic and a sad love elegy. Ba Jin's Autumn in Spring is based on a true story. Through a love tragedy, the novel accuses the evil of feudal autocracy and denies the idealism of the supremacy of love. Its uniqueness in Ba Jin's works lies in its poetic language and structure, as well as the ups and downs of plot clues.
A Cold Night, one of Ba Jin's representative works (Volume I and Volume II of Suit), is Ba Jin's last novel. The book describes the life and death tragedy of a young civil servant, and through him reveals the rough fate of honest and kind intellectuals in old China. Ba Jin made no secret of his joy or pain. His words are desperate and enthusiastic, like a cry to the old world.