《群山之巅》的结构让人想起中国传统的章回体小说,比如《水浒传》。每一个章节,迟子建会将一个人的生平全部写尽,叉要与上一个章节的故事相联系。这是一种小说建筑上的难度,如果叙事过于复杂,这种建筑方式会将小说拉长,并变得平庸。然而,在这部小说里,迟子建用极简的叙事策略,将三代人浓缩在一个故事里。语言的简略弥补了这种小说结构的缺陷,让小说有了旧式中国小说的承接。小说以辛七杂这个人物开篇,最后辛家只 The structure of “Top of the mountains” is reminiscent of the traditional Chinese ballad novels, such as The Outlaws of the Marsh. In every chapter, Chi Zijian will write down one’s life in full, and the Fork should be connected with the story of the previous chapter. This is a novel architectural difficulty, if the narrative is too complicated, this way of building the novel will be elongated, and become mediocre. However, in this novel, Chi Zijian used a minimalist narrative strategy to concentrate three generations in a story. The simple language makes up for the shortcomings of the structure of this novel, so that the novel has inherited the old Chinese novels. Xin Qi seven novels to start this character, the last Xin only