The must-read works for the Mao Dun Literature Award include "Furong Town", "The Ordinary World", "White Deer Plain", "Flaming" and "Muslim Funeral".
1. "Furong Town": "Furong Town" is Gu Hua's masterpiece and won the first Mao Dun Literature Award. With Furong Town as the background, it describes Hu Yuyin's life experience and integrates the local culture. Some local customs and customs paint a magnificent and magnificent picture for us.
2. "The Ordinary World": "The Ordinary World" is Lu Yao's masterpiece and won the third Mao Dun Literature Award. It uses the struggle history of the two brothers Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan as the background and focuses on the description. It tells how they survive in this world, and also describes their love experience.
3. "Bailuyuan": "Bailuyuan" is Chen Zhongshi's representative work, which won the 4th Mao Dun Literature Award. It takes Bailu Village on Bailuyuan in Guanzhong District, Shaanxi Province as a microcosm and shows the story from the late Qing Dynasty to the 20th century. Historical changes in the 1970s and 1980s.
4. "Impossible": "Impossible" is Jia Pingwa's masterpiece and won the second Mao Dun Literature Award. It uses a small town as the background to describe the life experience of the protagonist Jin Gou and shows the story of China's reform and opening up since then. social changes and the twists and turns of the characters' fate.
5. "Muslim Funeral": "Muslim Funeral" is Hoda's masterpiece and won the third Mao Dun Literature Award. It is based on a Hui family in Beijing and describes the life experience and life of the protagonist Han Ziqi. The various difficulties he faced also involved the history and culture of Chinese Muslims.