Ordinary World: Part 2

The crown jewel of the Mao Dun Literature Award An immortal classic that inspires hundreds of millions of readers Selected into reading guide catalog for primary and secondary school students Lu Yao has gained the respect and admiration of hundreds of millions of ordinary people in this world. He has connected the emotions of people in this world and humans on earth. ——Chen Zhongshi He was a brilliant writer, he was a brilliant politician, he was a magnificent man. But he was a proud man and fell on the road to thirst. His literature is like fire, burning with splendid flames. ——Jia Pingwa It was Lu Yao's works that changed me and made me realize that there is always a chance if I don't give up. Otherwise, I would still be riding a tricycle. ——Jack Ma "The Ordinary World", written by the writer Lu Yao with a lifetime of hard work, shows a grand picture of both ordinary and magnificent life that ordinary people have experienced in the great changes of the times. The struggle of life and the pursuit of ideals are similar in different eras. I hope you will use your vacation to read this book carefully before coming to Tsinghua University. —— Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University This is a realistic novel and a fictionalized family history. The author highly condenses the historical change process of rural northwest China, and the work achieves a high degree of unity of ideology and artistry. In particular, the protagonist's spirit of hard struggle in the face of difficulties can still inspire today's college students. This is a novel that presents a panoramic view of contemporary urban and rural social life in China. There are three volumes in this book. Based on the broad background of the past ten years, the author depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life through complex contradictions and entanglements. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intricately intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era. [About the author] Lu Yao (1949-1992), whose original name was Wang Weiguo, was born on December 3, 1949, in a poor peasant family in Qingjian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. When he was 7 years old, he was adopted to his uncle in rural Yanchuan County due to family difficulties. He studied at Yanchuan County Middle School and returned to his hometown to work in farming in 1969. During this period, he held many temporary jobs and taught in a rural primary school for one year. In 1973, he entered the Chinese Department of Yan'an University to study.