Abstract: Being a hybrid and holding more than one language have been the identity problems that have troubled the minority writer
Alai for a long time. In his work Cedar Shadows on the River, Alai created a village of complex elements and emotions, where the
"alien" Carpenter Wang and the "hybrid" Wang Zezhou encountered various problems due to their identities, which is actually Alai's
subjectivity appeal and expression of race, blood and identity recognition. At present, with the development of economy, great changes
have taken place in social morphology and population structure. Traditional family consciousness and kinship consciousness are
gradually losing their living basis, and the population structure of minorities has also undergone many changes. Alai deeply examines
the concept of blood and family, rethinks the meaning of identity, and explains the deep experience of minority writers' construction of cultural identity in the unique regional cultural environment.

Key words: Cedar Shadows on the River, Alai, cultural identity