源于乡村情结，乡村是曹文轩一直以来的书写中心。立足于童年经验采用儿童视角的叙事来书写乡村，正是他一直的原则的实践——坚持写作自己熟悉的东西。同时，故土苏北水乡之“水”也影响了曹文轩美学情调的构造，贯穿于他乡村书写的景物、人物与意境。曹文轩让历史与现实交织，将现代性与古典主义、现实主义与浪漫主义这样几对看似矛盾对立的概念相融合形成鲜明的叙事张力与魅力，用自己独有的艺术风格去书写乡村的景致、人物与生活，保留下渐渐远去的古老传统田园，表达了自己对文学的思考和儿童文学观念——用苦难与美来感动儿童。

Due to the country complex, the country is always adopts a writing center for Cao Wenxuan. Based on childhood experience using children's perspective of narrative to write the countryside, it is he has been the principle of practice, insist on writing their own familiar things. At the same time, the “water” of the land in north Jiangsu influences of Cao Wenxuan’s structure of the aesthetic appeal, adopts throughout his writing rural scenery, the character and artistic conception. Cao Wenxuan intertweaves history and reality, and mixes modernity and classic beauty, realism and romanticism, such a few of seemingly contradictory concept combines the narrative tension and charm of stark. Then he writes in his own unique artistic style to rural scenery, the character and life, to express his thoughts in literature and concept of children's literature - moving the children with misery and beauty.