brief introduction Lu Yao (December 3, 1949 ~ November 17, 1992), formerly known as Wang Weiguo, Han nationality, was a contemporary rural writer born and raised in China. Born in a poor peasant family in Qingjian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province on December 3, 1949, he was adopted to his uncle in Yanchuan County at the age of 7 because of family difficulties. He studied in Yanchuan county middle school and returned to his hometown to farm in 1969. During this time, he did many temporary jobs and taught in a rural primary school for one year. In 1973, he entered the Chinese Department of Yan 'an University, during which he began to create literature. After graduating from college, he was the editor of Shaanxi Literature and Art (now Yanhe). In 198, he published a thrilling scene and won the first national excellent novella award. The novella Life, published in 1982, described a rural intellectual youth's life pursuit and tortuous experience, which aroused great repercussions and won the second national excellent novella award. After being adapted into a film of the same name, it won the eighth Hundred Flowers Award Best Feature Film Award, causing a sensation throughout the country. "In Difficult Days" won the novel prize in Dangdai literature in 1982, and joined the Chinese Writers Association in the same year. In 1988, he completed a million-word novel "Ordinary World", which is a novel with a panoramic view of contemporary urban and rural social life. The book has three volumes. On the broad background in recent ten years, the author has portrayed 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, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have taken in the historical process of the great era. With its magnificent momentum and epic character, this novel shows the social life in urban and rural areas of China and the great changes of people's thoughts and feelings in the reform era in a panoramic way, so Lu Yao won the Mao Dun Literature Prize. The book was broadcast on the Central People's Radio before it was finished. At 8: 2 am on November 17th, 1992, Lu Yao died in Xi 'an at the age of 43 due to ineffective treatment of ascites due to cirrhosis. As Lu Yao was born in the countryside, his writing materials basically came from rural life. He always believed that he was "the son of a farmer's blood" and "a person with both rural flavor and urban flavor". He firmly believed that "the greatest happiness in life may lie in the process of creation, not in the result". Therefore, he believes that "only in extremely heavy labor can people live more fully." He always feels life with his deeply entangled hometown complex and the heaviness of life, taking the land of northern Shaanxi as an eternal poetic symbol. Whenever his creation enters a trough, he goes to the Mu Us Desert in his hometown of northern Shaanxi alone, where he examines himself and observes the society.