Since the 1990s, ancient villages, in the tide of times, have fallen apart at an unprecedented speed under the impact of urbanization, marketization and globalization. Rural novels at the turn of the century have continued writing the changes of the rural world with a strongly realistic spirit, vividly presenting a realistic picture of the declining rural emotion, the disintegrating rural politics and the decaying rural ethics. Those novels have grasped accurately the vague and complicated times pulse of the current rural world, revealed the authors’ frustration and helplessness in the face of rural reality under the fission of farming civilization, and meanwhile they have uncovered the value perplexity of building rural China modernity at a profound level.