The value of life lies in the nobility of being born ordinary but daring to pursue an extraordinary life, and in experiencing the extraordinary and merging into the ordinary
After reading Lu Yao's "Ordinary World", this sentence was deeply imprinted in Lao Gu's mind.
"Ordinary World" won the third contradiction literature award
In 1983, Lu Yao decided to start a new novel, and before he could write it, he had already figured out the framework of the work: three, six volumes, and one million words. Lu Yao is a stubborn and unwilling person to lose. He once said, "If I were to write a book that I felt was the biggest in my life, or do the most important thing in my life, it would be before I was 40 years old." ”
And Lu Yao finally realized his dream! With his own life, he wrote "Ordinary World".
In 1991, "Ordinary World" won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, but Lu Yao faced a very real problem: there was no money to go to Beijing to receive the award!
Many people are very surprised to see here, a big writer does not even have a travel fee?
Yes, Lu Yao has endured poverty all his life, he finally made up enough travel expenses, but when he arrived in Beijing, he still had to invite guests, Lu Yao could only ask his brother for help, and his brother finally borrowed money before he left, rushed to Xi'an Railway Station, and gave it to Lu Yao, who was anxiously waiting.
My brother teased him and said: After winning the Nobel Prize, I will not send you money to go abroad.
Lu Yao turned his head and walked into the train station.
But at that time, no one thought that "Ordinary World" had been filmed, and now this work is worth as much as 2.1 billion!
He was sent by his parents at the age of 7, abandoned by his wife before his death at the age of 42, and suffered from a serious illness that affected tens of millions of Chinese
Lu Yao endured poverty all his life and was born in 1949 to an extremely poor peasant family in the mountains of northern Shaanxi.
When Lu Yao was 7 years old, his parents gave him to his uncle, and when he was in junior high school, he could not afford to pay the food fee of four or five yuan a month, and sometimes he could not even afford to eat five cents of boiled radish. He was often dizzy with hunger, mad from hunger, desperately hungry. But he still insisted on going to school and liked to go to the prefectural cultural center to read the newspaper.
In the school, everyone went to play outside the classroom, but Lu Yao couldn't go because he was hungry and could faint when he moved.
But in order to let Lu Yao go to school, his adoptive mother Li Guiying, the old man's chicken did not bark, left home, walked a long way to the neighboring Yanchang County to ask for food, broke the black steamed buns that were coming and dried them, and then walked dozens of miles to Yanchuan Middle School where Lu Yao was studying.
Later, Lu Yao finally went to college and met his wife Linda, and the living expenses during the university period were funded by Linda, when Linda was an editor in the Beijing newspaper, leaving only a little of her own food expenses, and the rest were sent to Lu Yao, so after four years, Linda returned to Xi'an, and the two got married.
But the relationship between the two people is not as stable as imagined, Linda has a little bourgeoisie, and Lu Yao concentrates on creation, it is precisely because of creation, Lu Yao hides a lot of his love, love for his wife, love for his daughter, and love for himself.
Lu Yao and Linda
After creating the first ordinary world, Lu Yao's body has some problems, at this time Linda proposed a divorce, but because Lu Yao was famous at this time, and his daughter Lu Yuan was only 4 years old, Lu Yao did not agree to Linda's divorce.
In order to create "Ordinary World", Lu Yao was directly admitted to the coal mine hospital, because here he could feel the real life of the coal miners and write a more ordinary life.
But when creating the third part, Lu Yao vomited blood, because he had been in the coal mine for a long time, inhaled a lot of toxic gases, and at this time, Lu Yao was using his life to create!
Lu Yao's best friend Cao Guxi once recalled: "Lu Yao is a hero, and Lu Yao is still a hero after his illness!" He insisted on completing the creation of "Ordinary World" in the midst of illness, and also completed his creative essay "Morning Starts at Noon".
And just when Lu Yao was terminally ill, his wife Linda sent a divorce agreement again, and this time Lu Yao signed it!
At 8:20 a.m. on November 17, 1992, Lu Yao completed his life journey due to ineffective medical treatment. He was 42 years old. But the works he left behind have always shone, warmed and guided countless people.
This book, with an ordinary name but an "extraordinary" content, has influenced tens of millions of Chinese
Dong Qing once said in "China in the Story":
People say that the length of a writer's life is determined by his works, so we can say that Lu Yao is still alive and will continue to live.
Famous entrepreneur Jack Ma said:
"The person who has had the greatest influence on me is Lu Yao. It was Lu Yao's work that changed me and made me realize that there is always a chance not to give up, otherwise I am still pedaling a tricycle. "
Pan Shiyi watched it 7 times in a row, and each time he watched it ended with tears.
"Every night when I look at it, I cry, and every time I feel that this hurdle cannot be overcome, I have to pick it up and read it again, so that every detail is remembered very clearly."
Qiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, recommended "Ordinary World" when he first recommended books to Tsinghua freshmen.
In the major campus library lending rankings, "Ordinary World" has always been the largest number of borrowings by young people.
He Lu Yao immersed himself in the selflessness of literary creation, and created the image of tough guys (such as Ma Jianqiang, Sun Shaoping, Sun Shaoan, etc.) who sustened for personal appeals, covering up his inner sadness and helplessness. He wants to expel those who are dormant in their hearts through self-struggle, and they have a strong sense of inferiority. No matter how ruthless and ruthless the heavens are, he must earnestly cultivate this land of life!
And this book is a blood and tear, but also a "super inspirational book" that all contemporary Chinese should read.
Why is Lu Yao worth remembering?
Maybe it's because he uses his own experience and works
Tell us:
"Young man, you should go and break in!"
You should live persistently! ”
Such an excellent "Ordinary World", such a real life written into the book, undoubtedly brought us a lot of resonance, you write with your heart, the world gives you back, but also with your heart.
Reading Lu Yao is like reading yourself, and reading "Ordinary World" is like completing a redemption of life.
And after we read it, the biggest feeling is that we are inspired, which may be the reason why Lu Yao desperately wants to write this work, and he hopes to leave spiritual food for the majority of people!
Therefore, "Ordinary World" deserves to be everyone's pillow book, and it is even more worthy of being the strongest companion on the road of your struggle.
If you can only read one work in your lifetime, the first choice is "Ordinary World".