“Rope”is a key image in Su Tong's novel Huang Que Ji.How to understand the bundling of Bao Run to his grandfather is a key to the mystery of the novel's meaning.From the work，it can be seen that Bao Run tied up his grandfather over and over again in order to prevent him from digging up his ancestral bones.Grandfather dug the bones because he lost his soul which exit from the scar that was left when he was persecuted.It can be seen that whether the reason of he lost his soul or his symptoms after losing his soul，as well as his methods of dealing with his grandfather，there is a clear realistic metaphor.The book is not just an abstract human survival parable，but raises a series of practical questions：is the memory of traumatic history disappearing under the calm surface of contemporary society？ What is the attitudes of different generations to it？ In the face of its disruption，how do we bind the ghost of memory？