The literary achievements of these three people are outstanding, so they are often compared. In this contrast, Jia Pingwa is actually a bit lacking in confidence. There is a folk saying that Jia is not as good as Chen, and Chen is not as good as Lu.
Needless to say, Lu Yao's Ordinary World has topped the list of college students' borrowing for many years in a row, and Life is known as the China version of Red and Black. These two masterpieces are adapted from film and television works and spread widely.
Chen's masterpiece is White Deer Plain, but as a pillow with a coffin, it has become his classic. This extremely heavy work is a magnificent epic that shocked the whole country. Be adapted into a drama, TV series, movie, etc. And it is also a topic.
Where's Jia Pingwa? Shaanxi Opera also won the Mao Dun Literature Award, but this honor is somewhat comforting. I have read this book twice, but I gave it up halfway. It has no taste. I have finished watching Wasted Capital, but I feel that the whole person is wasted.
All three of them are presidents of Shaanxi Writers Association. In Jia Pingwa's own words, "Lu Yao used to press me before, but Chen used to press me after Lu Yao died."
Who's pushing you? Is it a superior leader or a reader? If you can't compare with others, don't pour out like a dissatisfied housewife.
Jia Pingwa wrote many things, which are said to have tens of millions of words. However, there are few real tripod-lifting works, and even if there are any, they can't compare with Ordinary World and White Deer Plain.
Classics are painstakingly created. Ordinary World took Lu Yao's life, and White Deer Plain took Chen's half life, so it became a masterpiece.
And Jia Pingwa? He didn't concentrate all his energy and effort on one book, but diluted it into many books, so his achievements were doomed to be inferior to those of Lu Yao and Chen.
However, from a secular point of view, Jia Pingwa is very successful. He had the last laugh, and now he has become a rich man just by selling calligraphy. It doesn't matter if you can't get the classics, at least you have both fame and fortune and live a rainy life.