Yellow River Flowing to East was awarded the 2nd Mao Dun Literature Prize. It tells about the fleeing KMT troops exploded Hua Yunkou dyke of Yellow River, causing more than 10 million people to suffer from this disaster. It tells about people's disaster and strife from 1938 to 1948, reflecting laboring people's suffering and the necessity to fight in the old China (before 1949).