Introduction to "The Ordinary World":

In early 1975, Sun Shaoping, a son of a farmer, went to Yuanxi County High School to study. He was poor and had low self-esteem; later he fell in love with Hao Hongmei, who was born in a landlord family and was in the same situation. After their affair was discovered by classmate Hou Yuying and exposed in public, the relationship with Hao Hongmei gradually turned bad. Later, Hao Hongmei fell in love with Gu Yangmin, who came from a superior family. Shaoping graduated from high school and returned to his hometown to become a teacher. But he was not depressed. He established a friendship with Tian Xiaoxia, the daughter of Tian Fujun, deputy director of the County Revolutionary Committee, and followed the outside world with Xiaoxia's help. Shaoping's elder brother Shaoan has been working at home and has been a childhood sweetheart with Tian Runye, the daughter of the village party secretary Tian Futang, the county teacher. Shaoan and Runye admired each other, but Tian Futang opposed them. After painful suffering, Shaoan went to Shanxi to have a blind date with the hardworking and kind-hearted Xiulian and got married. Runye also had to tearfully marry Li Xiangqian, who had always been in love with her introduced by her father. At this time, rural life was in chaos and drought struck again. In order to strengthen his prestige, Tian Futang organized secretly digging dams and grabbing water from upstream, but unexpectedly, a life was lost. In order to "learn from Dazhai in agriculture", he was so overjoyed that he demolished mountains and cultivated fields and asked people to move, which made people angry. The course of life has changed.

Expansion: Information and award-winning records of "The Ordinary World"

"The Ordinary World" is a million-word novel written by the Chinese writer Lu Yao. This is a full-length novel that panoramically expresses contemporary urban and rural social life in China. There are three parts in the book. The book is set in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s in China. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, with the two brothers Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping as the center, the book depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time; 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.

In March 1991, "The Ordinary World" won the third China Mao Dun Literature Award. The first edition was published by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House in December 1986; the second edition was officially released by the October Literature and Art Publishing House in Beijing in March 2012.