“The narrative of returning hometown” can better focus on the institutional adjustment of the relationship between man and land and its achievements and shortcomings than “local novel” in a broad sense, and reflect the current situation of urbanization in China and the transformation of rural individual mentality. Facing the entropy process of land, the narrative of returning hometown presents the tension expression of material criticism and divine expectation. For the paradoxical judgment of the economic value and emotional value of land, the narrative of returning hometown reflects the dual loss of rural individuals leaving and returning hometown. In response to the entropy of land and spiritual dilemma, the narrative of returning hometown explores the feasibility of local reconstruction, including the self generation of rural subjects, capital to the countryside, educational development and so on, and reflects on the dialectical development of rural closure and opening. The writing of the relationship between man and land in the narrative of returning hometown shows the ethical position of “belittling the city and advocating the town”. Therefore, this kind of creation should re-examine the relationship between urban and rural areas with a rational attitude, explore the historical and cultural connotation of land, deeply observe the people on the land, and write the story of returning hometown in the new era, so that it can be used as spiritual energy and ideological resources to have positive enlightenment significance for the current rural revitalization.