1990年代，中国社会经济体制发生重大变革，东北地区国有企业大量倒闭，“下岗潮”来临，无数工人陷入失业，身为曾经“共和国长子”的铁西区也难逃此劫。而成长于铁西区的双雪涛、班宇和郑执三人结合相似的内部生活经验，在新的世纪不约而同写下牵涉两代人的集体创伤记忆。通过他们的作品，我们能听到时代巨轮碾过弱小普通人的巨响，那是人们质疑命运与尊严化为乌有的呐喊。凭借独特的创作手法与美学技巧，三人迅速在文坛走红，文学批评界也将三人合称为“铁西三剑客”。“铁西三剑客”的笔下没有传统且庸常的苦难叙事，反而充满着绝境下的求生与超越精神，儒家文化的严父、人伦传统的慈母以及习惯庸常麻木的城市小人物仿佛都在“三剑客”的笔下实现了解构与重塑。与此同时，东北叙事也在“铁西三剑客”的笔下获得了意义延长，东北文艺复兴迎来了新的爆发。

In the 1990s, China's socio-economic system underwent significant changes, with a large number of state-owned enterprises in Northeast China closing down and the "laid-off trend" emerging, leaving countless workers unemployed. Tiexi District, once known as the "eldest son of the Republic", was also caught in this disaster. Shuang Xuetao, Ban Yu, and Zheng Zhi, who grew up in Tiexi District, combined their similar internal life experiences and wrote collectively about the traumatic memories of two generations in the new century. Through their works, we can hear the loud noise of the wheel of the times crushing the weak and ordinary people, which is people's outcry questioning the loss of fate and dignity. With their unique writing styles and aesthetic techniques, the literary critics have collectively referred to them as the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi". Their works are not filled with traditional and ordinary narratives of suffering, but instead are full of the spirit of survival and transcendence in desperation. The strict father of Confucian culture, the loving mother of traditional human relations, and the ordinary and numb urban figures seem to have been deconstructed and reshaped in the works of the "Three Musketeers". At the same time, the narrative of Northeast China has also gained extended meaning under the pen of the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi", and the Renaissance of Northeast China has ushered in a new outburst.