Text/Zhang Pengsheng
——Re-reading "Ordinary World" has a feeling
The first time I read "Ordinary World" was during the winter vacation after the Spring Festival in 1993. At that time, not long after Lu Yao's death, the literary and artistic circles throughout the country were lamenting the death of a great writer who died young. When I finished reading Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" creative essay "Morning Starts at Noon", I was greatly shocked, and it was really "the words seem to be blood, and six years of hard work is unusual." It was he who threw himself into this huge creative project with the enthusiasm of his first love and the will of religion, with the hard work of nine deaths, carrying the heavy Tarzan-like cross of "Ordinary World". In the cave dwelling in Ganquan County for six years, there was no concern for his relatives, no nourishment of love, no comfort from friends, only dialogue between himself and his own soul. Cigarettes burned out, coffee was drunk, and he lived a life of poverty. He consumes not only physical strength, but also mental energy. Because the creation time is mainly in the evening, it has been written until dawn. When others get up, he falls asleep, does not eat breakfast, and wakes up at noon, just steamed rice soup pickles to fill his hunger. After the first part was written, his body was overdrawn; after the second part was written, he was seriously ill and almost died; after the third part was written, his hands became "chicken feet", his sideburns were white, and his face was wrinkled. He used his youth and life to complete the million-word tome "Ordinary World" in 1988. In the broad background of the past ten years, through complex contradictions and entanglements, the author vividly portrays the self-esteem, self-improvement and self-confidence, struggle and struggle, setbacks and pursuits, pain and joy of Sun Shaoping's image of many ordinary people. Intertwining everyday life with great social conflicts, and reading it is an immortal classic that inspires millions of young people.
"Ordinary World" is a history of the mind that gives me warmth and strength. Every step of life is growing and progressing. The world is supported by us ordinary people, as long as we have firm ideals and beliefs, persistent pursuit and desire, learn to experience the mind in adversity, find firm belief in inferiority, overcome ourselves, and find a reason to strive for a better life. Ordinary people can still create an extraordinary world. The world will be extraordinary because of you.
Re-reading "Ordinary World" has benefited me a lot, especially the real image of the characters that the book strives to create, which often affects my understanding and perception of ordinary life. Sun Shao'an and Tian Runye, Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia, Tian Runsheng and Hao Hongmei and a number of other figures came to me again, bringing me the breath of spring. The person who influenced me the most was Sun Shaoping, a young man with distinct characteristics of the times. Although his life experience is not a big ups and downs, it is enough to taste the ups and downs of life and the hardships and bitterness of it. He has a profound understanding of suffering, a profound understanding of life, and a profound pursuit of the spiritual world. I also like Sun Shaoan very much, whether he is a farmer or a businessman, every step is so hard, so exciting, so complete. In his heart, life is struggle, and only by struggling can people live with dignity. As I read and thought, Lu Yao spent his life writing "Ordinary World", and his life must be more vivid and more exciting than all the artistic images he has created. Reading a good book, like a good friend, always gives me courage and strength, and urges me to keep forging ahead. "Ordinary World" is such a good book, a brilliant pearl shining with philosophical light.
There is a poem in the Zang Ke family: "Some people are alive, he is already dead, some people are dead, he is still alive." "Even more so for novelists, Lu Yao will always live in my heart.
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【About the author】Zhang Pengsheng, Zhang Pengsheng of Qingzhou Tobacco Secondary School, retired party member cadre, member of Weifang Writers Association, has published nearly 400,000 articles in newspapers and periodicals such as "Legend of Modern And Ancient Times", "China Tobacco" magazine, Oriental Tobacco News, Happy Old Man Daily, Guilin Daily, Weifang Evening News and other newspapers and periodicals.
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