Abstract:Looking at Xu Zechen’s novel "Going North" from the perspective of social history，can be seen，The novelist in order to realize his fourfold ambition，Focus on a century of mobile bet365 history from 1900 to 2014 in "Going North"，Formed the texture form of "national epic-meta-novel"。On the one hand, the novel focuses a lot on the geography along the Grand Canal and the historical details of the late Qing Dynasty，The combination of virtual and real covers a longer time span，Form a "national epic" style sense of history；On the other hand, it implies to the reader the fictionality of the text as a "novel"，Generating “metafictional” self-awareness，Let the sense of history continue to generate and dissociate itself。The novel’s discussion of “history” stops here，But by opening the horizons of social history，We discover that novels influenced the minds of intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty、The scene where Eastern and Western civilizations blend、There is still room for continued discussion on the overall understanding of the Grand Canal。

　　AuthorChen Si，Associate researcher at the Institute of Literature, mobile bet365 Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing 100732)。