Luyao Memorial Hall, Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province. Data map.
Wangjiabao Village, the birthplace of Lu Yao, Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province. Data map.
Childhood
In 1949, Lu Yao was born in an authentic peasant family in Wangjiabao Village, Shizuiyi Township, Qingjian County. His uncle's family was also poor, but he still had a little spare energy to support Lu Yao's schooling, which made Lu Yao happier than anything else.
In 1963, Lu Yao graduated from primary school and was admitted to Yanchuan County Middle School with excellent results. However, China has just experienced three years of natural disasters, and in northern Shaanxi, where the land is barren, the rural people are even more hungry and poorly clothed, and my uncle really can't afford to provide for Lu Yao to go to school. However, Lu Yao's dream of learning was finally realized with the strong support of his adoptive mother and fellow villagers.
Beijing educated youth Xing Yi sketched Lu Yao's adoptive mother).
Youth
In 1966, after graduating from junior high school, Lu Yao returned to the countryside and worked as a private teacher in a primary school, a creator of the county literary and artistic propaganda team, and co-edited the poetry collection "Yan'an Mountain Flowers" with Gu Xi, Junmin, Tao Zheng, Wen Pin and others. They also founded the county-level small literary newspaper "Mountain Flower".
In 1973, Lu Yao was selected to study in the Chinese Department of Yan'an University as a worker, peasant and soldier cadet. This event fundamentally changed the direction of his life. During his studies at Yan'an University, Lu Yao read a large number of Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces, desperately enriched his knowledge reserves, and persevered in literary creation. In July 1973, "Yanhe" published his short story "Winning the Red Flag", which was his first published article. With this ** as a symbol, Lu Yao officially came to the Chinese literary circle.
In 1976, the 73rd graduation of the Chinese Department of Yan'an University The first from the right in the third row is Lu Yao).
The process of literary creation
On August 6, 1976, after graduating from university, Lu Yao was assigned to work as an editor of the literary journal "Yanhe" sponsored by the Shaanxi Writers Association, which gave him the necessary conditions to engage in literary creation. Accordingly, Lu Yao embarked on an ambitious literary expedition.
In 1981, Lu Yao's novella "A Thrilling Scene" won the first National Excellent Novella Award.
In 1982, Lu Yao's novella "Life" was published in the large-scale literary journal "Harvest", and **Life" won the second National Excellent Novella Award in 1983. In 1984, ** Life" was filmed by Wu Tianming and won the Best Feature Film Award at the National Film Hundred Flowers Award in the same year.
In 1982, Lu Yao left the editorial work of Yanhe magazine and began to engage in professional creation, which gave him an objective condition that he could arrange his literary labor more calmly. Lu Yao had a dream when he was a teenager: "If you want to write a book that you feel is the biggest in this life, or do the most important thing in your life, it must be before the age of forty." At the age of 35, Lu Yao began to prepare for his work, "Ordinary World", and his feverish work and complicated thinking became his daily life.
After six years of intense creation, the three-part, six-volume, one-million-word "Ordinary World" was finally completed in May 1988. This is a panoramic representation of China's contemporary urban and rural social life.
On March 9, 1991, "Ordinary World" topped the Mao Dun Literature Award, which was the most glorious moment in Lu Yao's short life at the age of 42.
At 8:20 a.m. on November 17, 1992, Lu Yao died of illness in Xijing Hospital, Xi'an.
Correspondent: Yao Kexin, Qiao Jiaqi).
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