The Chinese-French Author-Shan sa began to use French as her writing language from 1997. Her first well know novel -La joueuse de go awards French ＂Prix Goncourt des lycéens＂ and has been translated into more than seventeen languages. Besides writing, since 2001 her paintings has been exhibited around France, the Unites States, Japan, and China as well. Awarded the Order of Arts and Letters as Knight on 2011, Shan sa indeed plays an important role in French literature. Shan sa has published her work Les quatre vies du saule on 1999 where she tried to describe the meaning of life through four- life story by the codes of willow. In this paper, we take the willow's metaphor as ＂left＂ and focus on how Shan sa narrate the story of Chun-Ning, of the modern female-Jing, and of the fame-pursuit myth of Chong yang.
