"Yellow Earth" is a literary-themed film adapted from Kelan's novel collection "Echoes of the Deep Valley". Directed by Zhou Yun and Jiang Wen, starring Wang Xueqi and Xue Bai. The film tells the story of Cui Qiao, a poor girl from a rural area on the plateau of northern Shaanxi. Her father has been in charge of the family since she was a child and she has made arrangements for her marriage. She cannot solve her bad luck and can only rely on singing "Xin Tian You" to express her inner pain.

This film won the Best Cinematography Award at the 5th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award in 1985, and the Silver Leopard Award at the 38th Locarno Film Festival in France in 1985. The height of historical and humanistic thinking and the strength of artistic expression are the main factors that make "Yellow Earth" exciting. Previously, the moral concerns and social evaluation of domestic films were the key pillars of film and television works, and the ability to recognize right and wrong influenced the development of Chinese culture.

Since ancient times, the land standard has contained the philosophy of life, but it has heavily restricted people's inner joy. The Eighth Route Army's national government's good life has created expectations that break the tradition, but it has not been rescued in accordance with the international conventions described in the film. The common people are in dire straits; Gu Qing passes by and gives up trying to save the girl Cui Qiao. Cui Qiao's hope and hatred are like all the livelihood projects on the high loess slopes. She only places her trust in Xin Tianyou who cannot dissipate for a long time in the valley. , it's heartbreaking.

This is like what Gu Qing asked Cui Qiao’s father in the movie: There are thousands of national songs on the northern Shaanxi Plateau, how can they be recorded? Dad Cuiqiao said: Life was hard, so of course I recorded it. This not only shows that national songs are the only spiritual sustenance of people in northern Shaanxi, but also shows the highest realm of plastic arts and all achievements.