Abstract: The Land in October tells about a bitter epic and ethical allegory of individual and national memory in Northeast China implied in the “stories” of land and survival， family conflicts and national struggles. The “Son of Land” is supposedly an expression created by the authors of the May Fourth new literature， inheriting the spiritual blood of modern Chinese intellectuals writing the “land”. The emotional sustenance of farmers in The Land in October in expressing the love of the land stems from the root of the historical and cultural soil in Northeast China with the “Son of Land” as the ethical core. The story not only reproduces the bitter epic inscribed by the spiritual motif of the tough life， love and national righteousness in the mountains and waters but also demonstrates the rational examination beyond the “land” to compose an ethical allegory in the narration of the different views of the “land” of the three generations wandering in Hancong River， Lotus Bubble and Toad Pond.

Key words: Jin Ziwei; The Land in October; bitter epic; ethical allegory