Abstract: Mo Yan’s“Frog”is a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese literature, which integrates hallucinatory realism into the reality of rural China revolving around the implementation of family planning policy. With the main line of frog-infant╞the goddess Wa, the work portrays vividly a group of original characters, whose fate is moving, touching and thought-provoking. From the three perspectives that best reveal the author’s technique, i.e. the creation of the major characters named after their body parts or features, the organic combination of exotic characters and scenery with the local native land, and the hallucinatory magic of frog as the symbol of human being, this paper analyzes and explores the construction of the characters, plots and settings in the work, so as to reveal the everlasting charm of mythological archetypes in realistic works.

Key words: hallucinatory realism; mythological archetype; frog