李喬廣為人知的鉅著《寒夜三部曲》乃描寫客家人如何開墾臺灣土地、如何尋求民主，文中不乏有種族奮鬥的描寫，既具本土性視野，更蘊含廣闊世界性。李喬說《寒夜三部曲》最重要的精神在於人與土地的關係，濃烈的土地氣味在改編後的歌仔戲《臺灣，我的母親》身上依然保留著。李喬亦曾將《寒夜三部曲》另寫成三千行長詩《臺灣，我的母親》，可見李喬對於土地之愛的熾烈。然而人們往往關注其大河小說的長篇鉅著，卻忽略了他以寫實手法為基底而刻畫的短篇小說。早在1967年創作的〈那棵鹿仔樹〉中，已透露李喬對於土地的情感。在〈那棵鹿仔樹〉中，讀者不僅可看到鄉村在城鄉變遷中樣貌的改變，更可感受這樣的變化，對於久居鄉村的人們，其內心的巨大衝擊及精神悸動。本文即試由〈那棵鹿仔樹〉一文來觀察文中所彰顯的鄉土情懷。

Lee, Ciao's well-known masterpiece: "The Wintry Trilogy" describes how Hakka people cultivated land in Taiwan and sought for democracy. Such description of racial struggle reveals both local and global view. Lee said the principal spirit in "The Wintry Trilogy" is the relation between people and land, such emotion for land remains in his adapted Taiwanese opera, "Taiwan, My Mother", which is another fact to show his deepest love to land. Readers usually pay much attention on historical description in Lee's masterworks but neglect the realistic techniques in his short stories.Description of emotions for land had been revealed in Lee, Ciao's creation, "The Paper Mulberry", in 1967. While, in that work, readers can not only find the feature changes of the country during the transition of urban and rural areas, but also feel the touching and impacting emotions in mind from such changes to those people permanently reside in the country. The goal of this article is mainly observing the native emotion revealed in "The Paper Mulberry".