The time span of Ordinary World is from 1975 to 1985. It happened in a place called Shuangshui Village on the vast loess high slope. Basically, the whole novel is about the changes and people in Shuangshui Village. Great changes have taken place in China in the past ten years. Shuangshui Village and its people are the epitome of the people of China and China. During that period, the Cultural Revolution ended, and Deng Xiaoping came to power and brought about reform and opening up.
I don't want to describe the content of the novel in detail. In fact, it included all aspects of social life at that time. Lu Yao obviously wanted to paint a grand social picture with realistic brushstrokes. I can count many lifelike people from all walks of life, regardless of personality and face. This is a very important point, because Lu Yao's exquisite novel skills and extremely serious writing attitude make this novel the best auxiliary teaching material in that period of history.
Obviously, I can't do novel criticism, which is of course because of my level. But the greatest educational significance of this novel is its profound understanding of farmers. It may be difficult for young people in modern cities to really understand farmers. Farmers' life, farmers' ideas. The days that farmers once lived will not be cared about now or in the future. In fact, the author himself has never had a real understanding and cognition. To have this level of thinking, I'm afraid you must have experienced rural life. But indirect knowledge can also inspire and touch us. This is "Ordinary World" and this is "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood". These novels can profoundly reflect the life, joys and sorrows of farmers. After reading these novels, in a sense, we also experienced that era, sweating like rain in Tanaka. The practical significance of these books lies in the present situation of China, the continuation of history, the prospect of the future, and the self-improvement of our young people: the understanding of human nature, the understanding of China, and the understanding of the people who make up this land of life in China.
On the other hand, I like Lu Yao's starting point-the ordinary world. His world is ordinary, just one of tens of thousands of villages on the Loess Plateau. But Lu Yao saw the extraordinary of his hero in the ordinary. For example, Sun Shaoping, who received high school education, reached the level of ideological discussion with college students through self-study. The author endowed the role with various excellent qualities, including not setting the goal too high. In Lu Yao's world, there are ordinary people, because he described the goodness and beauty, ugliness and evil in human nature in these ordinary people. In his world, the greatest advantage of man is to realize that he is ordinary. This is best reflected in Sun Shaoping. When he got the opportunity to transfer the coal mine to the city, he chose the coal mine. This is not without his high consciousness, but his enthusiasm and attachment to the place where he worked. He chose the ordinary.
This kind of post-reading feeling obviously has traces of high school stereotyped writing. In order to make it look less empty, I suggest people read Ordinary World, which is really worth reading.