The main story is set in the decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Centered on the complex contradictions and entanglements between Sun Brothers, the pursuit of frustration, labor and love, pain and joy, daily life and great social status met in a complicated way, a million-word novel depicting the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time. It profoundly shows the spirit of self-improvement and hard struggle of ordinary people in the historical process of the great era. Ordinary World won the third China Mao Dun Literature Prize.
I've seen ordinary world novels, TV plays and radio. I especially like Lu Yao's works, such as life novels, and I still have them. It seems that I feel a lot when I see my young self. This book was completely rejected by experts in Beijing at that time, but it caused great repercussions after its release. The story of the struggle of rural brothers in the book seems to be a microcosm of us in real life, constantly telling us that as long as we work hard, our life will be meaningful and bring courage, light and hope to every humble and ordinary person!
In order to write "Ordinary World" well, Lu Yao spent several months reading People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Reference News and two other regional newspapers, so that "his fingers were worn out by paper and put on the paper like a blade, so he had to continue reading with the back of his hand". Dong Qing said tearfully in The Story of China: The Ordinary World was written by Lu Yao in the last six years of his life. It is a magnificent historical picture and a symphony of life.