Abstract: In LI Peifu's text, the application of a large number of plant images becomes a more obvious feature in his novels. Through these plant images, the images of the "plain man" who lived on the same land were on paper. With the most common "bull shit cake" metaphor in the country he depicted simple rural women, reflecting the survival instinct of the people in the plains——to survive in the failure, to live in the small, and mysterious "blood pomegranate", "face orange", etc. All these images can provide a new perspective to understand clearly the style the writer interprets the world, thus becomes the key to understanding LI Peifu's novels.