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Editor's note
Reading is an important way for human beings to acquire knowledge, enlighten their wisdom, and cultivate morality. In order to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, cultivate and promote the good habit of reading for the whole people, and deepen the reading activities of the whole people, the official account of "Charming Qiaoxi" has opened a special column of "Scholarly Qiaoxi" to recommend high-quality reading lists and help the whole society form a strong atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading. In this issue, we recommend "Ordinary World" for you.
Title: The Ordinary World
Author: Lu Yao
"The Ordinary World" is a novel written by writer Lu Yao for six years to express the panoramic expression of contemporary urban and rural social life in China, a total of three books, won the third Mao Dun Literature Award in China. The book uses simple words to set the background of the decade from the mid-70s to the mid-80s in China, and while showing the difficult survival situation of ordinary little people, it also strives to write about their beautiful hearts and perseverance in overcoming many difficulties. The protagonists of the work, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, are young people struggling on the poverty line, but they are constantly striving for self-improvement, relying on their tenacious perseverance to fight against fate and pursue their own moral perfection. Among them, Sun Shaoan is a fighter who is determined to change his destiny based on the countryside, while Sun Shaoping is a "runaway" who has the knowledge of modern civilization and is eager to integrate into the city. Their stories constitute the bipolar experience of the life struggles of ordinary people in Chinese society. From a micro perspective, the book takes the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and family choices of a village and a family as the starting point, presents the relationship between reform and opening up and "specific people", and presents the different life choices made by people with different personalities under the changes in the environment and policies. By reading this book, you can learn about the historical background of China's reform and opening up in the early days, the living conditions of rural families in that era, and the different attitudes and choices of people in the face of change. "Ordinary World" tells the impermanence of life in a plot full of dramatic tension, but also in the actions of the protagonists who get up after falling again and again, showing the perseverance of the Chinese, and it is also a picture that integrates personal experience into the great waves of the times, and at the same time is meticulous. The novel takes Sun Shaoping's experience as the starting point, and through the novel's description of the experiences of Sun Shaoping and Sun Shao'an, you will find that they all have a simple heart, dare to struggle, dare to endure hardships, and work hard for life, for their families, and for their beliefs. From books and people, connecting with ourselves, each of us, for the vast world, is as ordinary as a drop in the ocean, we should be like the characters in "Ordinary World", diligent, down-to-earth, learn to cherish, learn to maintain enthusiasm for life, with the youth of me, the struggle of me, indomitable, courageous, forge ahead on a new journey, and make contributions to the new era. "Ordinary World" makes us deeply appreciate the difficulty of life and the greatness of human nature. As Mr. Lu Yao said: "Life cannot wait for others to arrange, you have to fight and struggle for yourself, regardless of whether the result is happy or sad, but it is comforting that you have lived in this world in vain." With this understanding, you will value life without being cynical, and at the same time, you will inject a strong inner strength into yourself."
Editor: Zhang Yang
Editor: Chen Wei, Gao Yang
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