The Good Earth: Chapters 1-13 Summaries The Good Earth is a Chinese book of a farmer's hard life working on the land. It tells of the farmer's good times and bad times, and all through this there is always the good earth that produces his crops that he may eat or sell to make money. Chapter 1: Wang Lung is on his marriage day. He wakes up apon a bright and glorious morning. Wang does his normal chores in the morning and also takes a bath and gets a hair cut. He is glad that he will soon have a woman to do these chores. He also has anxiety about meeting the woman for the first time and going to the Great house. When h