"People outside the city want to go in and people in the city want to come out." Fortress Besieged is a novel by Qian Zhongshu and a satirical novel with unique style in the history of modern literature in China. Known as the "new scholar".

Fortress Besieged is a novel to increase life experience. "I didn't know what I liked at first, but I was already in it." Fortress Besieged describes the various tastes of life, such as ups and downs, and vividly depicts the characters such as Fang Hung-chien, Zhao, Su and Li. In terms of content, Fortress Besieged involves not only love, but also the necessary stages and problems in life such as education, friendship, career, marriage and family. So in Fortress Besieged, we see the corruption of education from Fang Hung-chien's schooling experience, the beauty and regret of first love from his story with Tang Xiaofu, and the face of marriage from the story of Fang Hung-chien and Sun Roujia. ...

Fortress Besieged is also a novel that makes people familiar with the world. When many people hear this book, they may think of Mr. Jiang Yang's classic preface-"People in the city want to go out and people outside the city want to rush in. Whether it is marriage or career, the whole life seems to be under siege." From this, I am disappointed with life and marriage, feel powerless and sad about life and marriage, and think that I have seen through everything. But everything is complicated and changeable, and the scenery seen from different angles is different.

The significance of the novel Fortress Besieged lies not only in its satire, but also in its world encyclopedia. "The world is clear, everything is learned, and people's understanding is an article." In the book Fortress Besieged, there are people who are intrigued, fighting for power and profit, and climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, as well as cowardice, mercenary and vanity in human nature.