Thirdly, the motivation of the production of “Sorghum” Metaphors originates from the Chinese traditional local culture. People who live in modern society have few opportunities to see real red sorghum, especially the people who reside in northeast of Gaomi. People’s conceptions of red sorghum are mainly from media and from Mo Yan’s literary compositions. Local peasants devote their whole life to the red sorghum field. As the writer mentioned in the novel, they were born and grew up on the sorghum land as well as being returned to the sorghum fields after their death from generation to generation. Meanwhile, such sorghum fields provide almost all necessary and important things for the local people’s life, including food, clothing and shelter.
