General acknowledgement is that To Live is the sign of Yu Hua's Transition. However

Yu Hua's Transition starts much earlier. Two important contexts are Summer Typhoon and Yelling in the Drizzle. These are very important works in Yu Hua's creations. They are even two golden keys to open Yu Hua's literature world. Summer Typhoon is comprehensive work of despair and beauty in his pioneer period. This work illustrates fall of two kinds of assurance in Yu Hua's literature world. It shows that Yu Huan go away from the gate of rescue through beauty overcoming violence. Yelling in the Drizzle is the first yelling from earth since the fall of world significance in Yu Hua's literature world. This yelling comes directly from the desire of live. In this sense

Yelling in the Drizzle is the open creation since his transition.