What is the background of Lu Yao, the author of Ordinary World?

Lu Yao,1949 65438+February 3 ~ 1992 65438+ 10/7, formerly known as Wang Weiguo, is a contemporary writer in China, and was born in a peasant family in northern Shaanxi. His masterpiece Ordinary World, with its magnificent momentum and epic character,

(0 1) Lu Yao is more than just a scholar. During the Cultural Revolution, the revolutionary masses in Yanchuan County split into two camps, and Lu Yao was the leader of one camp. Later, the Yanchuan County Revolutionary Committee was established, and Lu Yao became the deputy director, equivalent to the deputy magistrate. That year, Lu Yaocai was 18 years old.

(02) Cao Guxi, the first teacher of Lu Yao, thinks that Lu Yao's character has many defects. For example, Lu Yao often asks his friends to help him, but he is unwilling to help his friends. The adoptive father was critically ill, and Lu Yao failed to send him a bowl of water to drink; When his adoptive father died, Lu Yao failed to burn a piece of paper money in front of the grave. As a son, Lu Yao has no filial piety.

(03) The prototype of the poet Jia Bing in Ordinary World is Cao Guxi.

(04) Lu Yao's ashes were buried in the mountain behind Yan 'an University, and the bluestone of the tomb was brought from Qingjian County, the birthplace of Lu Yao. Because there is a saying in Shaanxi, Xintianyou is often sung by Lu Yao: "Mizhi's aunt is a Han Chinese in Suide, and Qingjian's slate is the charcoal of Wayaobao." After Lu Yao was buried, Cao Guxi named the ridge where Lu Yao's ashes were placed as "Wenhui Mountain".

(05) Lu Yao's real name is Wang Weiguo. At that time, the truth of the Lin Biao incident spread, and Lin Biao's best friend Wang Weiguo happened to have the same pronunciation as Wang Weiguo. From then on, Lu Yao no longer used his real name.

(06) Besides the pen name Lu Yao, he also used several pen names, such as, Liang Yuan, and so on.

(07) Lu Yao is recognized as a "diner". When I was young, I always slept, lived and ate wherever I went. Later, I lived in the compound of Shaanxi Writers Association, and it was still like this. He ate almost all the young people in the writers association. Sometimes sitting in the yard, I suddenly see someone coming back from the door and immediately say happily, "Come to your house to eat noodles?" The friend said, "Then go." He followed excitedly.

(08) When Lu Yao was a beginner in writing, he borrowed books everywhere. One of the characteristics of his borrowing books is his bad faith. When the host family asked for it, he said it was lost, and the host family could only admit that it was unlucky. If you meet a new book again, you will have to borrow it. If you don't borrow, remember that you are diligent and eager to learn. If you borrow, you are worried about not returning it.

(09) Lu Yao's wife Linda, an educated youth in Beijing, jumped the queue in Yanchuan. Linda's pen name is Cheng Yuan. A long way to go, pen name antithesis, like-minded. A few years later, they named their only daughter Luyuan, and all acquaintances knew what it meant.

(10) When Lu Yaosheng was in college, Yanchuan recommended him to Beijing Normal University, but Beijing Normal University politely declined. Recommended to Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi Normal University refused to accept it. Later, the director of Yanchuan County Culture and Education led the recruitment of cadres, brought a stack of Hua Shan magazines, and had a heart-to-heart talk with the enrollment comrades of Yan 'an University. Yanda also has concerns. Finally, the secretary of Yanchuan County Party Committee went into battle shirtless and frequently took a special bus to enter and leave the Yanda campus. In the end, the president of Yanda University, Shen Peichang, took the risk to make a decision and admitted Lu Yao to the Chinese Department of Yanda University.

(1 1) At that time, the university resumed enrollment soon, and the campus discipline was relatively loose: smoking was allowed, students were allowed to doze off, and students were allowed to leave class because they thought the teacher didn't speak well. So sometimes, when the bell rings, students go to class one after another. Lu Yao walked out of the school gate with a book in his arms from the classroom downstairs, perhaps to the ideal corner of Yang Jialing, or to the beach along the river under the vegetable ridge in front of the school gate, and read it until he came back before dinner. Sometimes when the teacher speaks on the platform, he will snore while lying on the table. After the handout was handed out, the deskmate put it in the drawer for him. He not only didn't tidy up, but also didn't look at it. When he was in urgent need, he grabbed it, crumpled it up and ran into the toilet.

(12) Lu Yao worships Liu Qing very much and has read The History of Entrepreneurship for at least four times.

(13) 1976 At the beginning of the year, Premier Zhou died, and his superiors instructed him not to hold a memorial service or wear black veil. Lu Yao, as the monitor, took political risks, organized donations from the whole class, pulled black cloth to make black gauze, and each student wore gauze for three days.

(14) The financial expenses of Lu Yao when he went to college were all provided by his girlfriend Linda.

(15) 1970 One day in the early spring, the poet Wen Frequency received an article entitled "Cars Crossing Nanjing Bridge" with the signature. So, Wen Fei met the author, a 20-year-old boy, wearing a faded rotten cotton-padded jacket with a broken hemp rope around his waist. Wenbao is going to edit and publish the article, but he thinks the pen name is awkward. "How about another pseudonym?" Ask frequently. So, the young man took the manuscript, thought a little, and wrote the word "Lu Yao".

(16) Lu Yao especially likes rainy days. Whenever it rains, he will be ecstatic and say, "It's raining! It's raining! "

(17) Yao Lu must buy cigarettes with mouths, but when smoking, cut off the filter tip. Lu Yao's favorite is Hongtashan.

(18) Lu Yao is very particular about the neatness of his desk. He said that if the table is a little messy, he can't enter the creative state and must clean it up to his liking. Moreover, Lu Yao likes to scribble on paper. He often has no thoughts or feelings. He drew a picture on the manuscript paper and drew an inspiration. He often walks around the compound with his head down, but that's not thinking, it's relaxing.

(19) Lu Yao said that the most interesting phenomenon in the writers association office compound is that children are the busiest, go to bed late and get up early, and are diligent in doing homework; Secondly, wives are busy, go out early and return late, and work is busy; The least busy person is Mr. Wen, who can drink a cup of green tea from morning till night.

(20) Lu Yao once said that girls in northern Shaanxi treat people very well. If she falls in love with you, she will never forget you, even if a lover doesn't get married later. Whenever you take a message, she will come to see you through the fare. He also said that women in northern Shaanxi are not only beautiful in spirit but also beautiful in appearance. When you have a chance to go to northern Shaanxi, when you finish school, stand at the gate of Mizhi Middle School and Suide Normal School and see the girls coming out there more beautiful than one.

(2 1) Lu Yao once looked at his comrades-in-arms and said that if cancer was found, he would run away, run to a deserted place, cover it with a blanket and lie down to die. However, although the final diagnosis was not cancer, but ascites due to cirrhosis, Lu Yao still failed to get out of Xijing Hospital.

(22) 198 1 In the summer of, Lu Yao wrote "Life" in Ganquan County Guest House. He made a special trip to sketch to visit him, only to see the room filled with smoke, the iron dustpan behind the door was full of cigarette butts, hard steamed bread was thrown on the table, and there were several twists. Lu Yao has unkempt hair and red eyes. Writing day and night makes his arm hurt when it is lifted. Lu Yao's writing is difficult and the progress is not fast. Five or six thousand words a day at most need to be revised back and forth.

(23) That night, Yan 'an City was covered by moonlight. Lu Yao and Gao Jianqun tossed and turned in the street like sleepwalkers until midnight. "A great event is about to happen in the literary world of China!" Lu Yao said that he was referring to the manuscript of Life.

(24) When Lu Yao came back from winning the prize, he deposited the prize money given to him by Beijing and the province in the name of his daughter Lu Yuan. Two bonuses, no more, no less, ten thousand yuan. This is the only deposit slip he left.

(25) Although Lu Yao won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, his life was very poor. People in the writers' association compound see him coming back from the stall almost every day, holding a few steamed buns or a few pot helmets in one hand and cucumbers in the other. Sometimes there are no cucumbers, just a few onions.

(26) Wang Anyi's fortune telling for Lu Yao is actually a psychological test. She asked Lu Yao to name three animals and then reported the adjectives they remembered. Then, Wang Anyi explained that the adjective of the first animal is your description of yourself, and the adjective of the second animal is a description of others. When Wang Anyi said that the adjective "the third animal" actually refers to herself, Lu Yao couldn't help but let out a cry, the smile on his face disappeared and his eyes became serious. The third animal mentioned by Lu Yao is a cow. He described the cow with words like heavy and hard work.

(27) Lu Yao said that in early spring, I was walking in the mountains and covered in loess. Suddenly, there is a pink peach blossom standing on the cliff. At this time, tears could not help but flow down. It will always be a leafy solitary tree, and the little pink is almost submerged by the turbulent loess color. The sky on the loess is particularly blue, which seems to be designed to shine on this loess, making this desolation even more shocking. It seems to have evacuated all the pure feelings in life and made every effort to bloom. On the rich background of loess and blue sky, it is only an understatement, but in Lu Yao's eyes, it is a scenery that is always sad.

Lu Yao loves football and absolutely likes German football. German football's tactical discipline, toughness, perseverance and unpretentious spirit in good times and bad times certainly resonated with Lu Yao's spiritual temperament.

(29) After Lu Yao finished writing "Ordinary World", he chatted with the writer Xiao Lei and said that he had always wanted to write a novel of 200,000 words, entitled "The Tree of Life", which was about an old pagoda tree in the loess ditch of his hometown. Under the tree, several young men and women were experiencing expanded happiness and concentrated suffering, which was the history of Adam and Eve on the loess plateau. After the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Lu Yao stayed up all night. He thought of the collapse of several family members of veteran cadres in a city in northern Shaanxi. He tried to explore the mystery of the world through several families, and planned to write a large novel called "Collapse". In addition, Lu Yao also wants to write the Ten-year Cultural Revolution, entitled "Ten Years", and write a million words, interweaving the struggle from the top to the central government and the struggle from the grassroots to the cities and rural areas, and writing his own unique judgment and analysis of the Cultural Revolution.

(30) Lu Yao told Xiao Lei that he was going to choose a time to take them to Guanzhong House by bus, to Tongguan, to Longmen, then to Shanghe, to Hukou, then to roam the loess gully in northern Shaanxi, to raise his Yanchuan, and then to give birth to his Qingjian. He said that he would let them sit together in the stone kiln in Qingjian's hometown and let his mother make them fancy tea rice in northern Shaanxi.

(31)1992165438+1October 17, at 8: 20 am, Lu Yao died in Xijing Hospital.

Wang Tianle, the fourth brother of Lu Yao, finished high school, taught in the countryside for a year, and then went out to travel. He went to Yan 'an and began his working life. Later, Lu Yao found him on the construction site and took him back to the hotel for a long talk. Soon, Wang Tianle was recruited to the No.4 Mining Area of Yakou Coal Mine of Tongchuan Mining Bureau. Obviously, the prototype of Sun Shaoping in Ordinary World is Wang Tianle.

(33) Life was originally named "Floating and Sinking", and the title of Life was written by China Youth Publishing House Wang Gai.

(34) "Ordinary World" began to be called loess, black gold and big world, and was later renamed by the poet Qi Paige to help Lu Yao.

(35) Lu Yao said that when the last part of the History of Entrepreneurship was published in Yanhe, he was the responsible editor of Liu Qing. He said to Liu Qing, you are from northern Shaanxi, but why did you put your creation in Guanzhong Plain? Liu Qing said, the reason is very complicated. I may never be able to write in northern Shaanxi in my life. You should shoulder the burden. For northern Shaanxi, there are several big books to write, which have never been written before. Liu Qing said, from the Huangdi Mausoleum to Yan 'an, and then to Li Zicheng's hometown and Genghis Khan's tomb, as long as one day's time is enough, no one in such a large piece of land in northern Shaanxi has written two or three masterpieces on the theme of northern Shaanxi, which is not a good historical explanation.

(36) Lu Yao, accompanied by Wang Tianle, suddenly proposed to change the fate of Sun Shaoping after experiencing life in a coal mine. He said that Sun Shaoping can only go to coal mines, and if I go to big cities, I can't control him. Because Lu Yao is not particularly familiar with big city life. Finally, Lu Yao and Wang Tianle jointly decided to let Sun Lanxiang go to town, because she is their ideal person.

Ten years before Lu Yao died, the relationship between Lu Yao and Linda was on the verge of collapse. Wang Tianle once advised Lu Yao to divorce, and then found a girl from northern Shaanxi to take care of his life. But because of her daughter's long-distance love, Lu Yao refused to divorce. 1in the summer of 992, Lu Yao finally decided to divorce Linda, but a sudden serious illness made Lu Yao never get out of bed again. So until her death, Linda was Lu Yao's wife, and she and her daughter Lu Yuan jointly inherited the copyright of Lu Yao's works according to law. In 2003, Linda transferred all her copyright to Luyuan.

(38) When writing the third part of Ordinary World in Yulin Hotel, Lu Yao was at the end of his tether emotionally and economically. He often writes while crying. One day, when Wang Tianle was interviewing in Luochuan County, Lu Yao suddenly called the newspaper and asked him to go to Yulin quickly. Wang Tianle thought what had happened and hurried to Yulin. As soon as he entered the house, Lu Yao told him that Tian Xiaoxia was dead.

No matter where you write, Wang Tianle helps Lu Yao clean the room when you leave. Wang Tianle often travels hundreds of miles to help Lu Yao clean his room. And Lu Yao, when Wang Tianle helped him pack, always smoked silently on the balcony.

(40) "Ordinary World" won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, and Beijing informed Lu Yao to accept the prize. Lu Yao could not even afford the travel expenses. Finally, Wang Tianle helped him borrow money. Wang Tianle handed the money to Lu Yao and said, You won't win any prizes in the future. If you take Nobel Prize in Literature, I can't find foreign exchange for you.

(4 1) Lu Yao once sighed: On a snowy night, lovers who snuggle around the corner are the happiest.

(42) The news of Lu Yao's death has never been told to Lu Yao's foster mother in Yanchuan. The old man learned it from TV news. Even the farewell ceremony of Lu Yao's body, funeral committee did not inform Lu Yao's foster mother. All day, the old man sat alone under the locust tree next to Yanchuan kiln, facing the road at the entrance of the village and looking into the distance. When his son was studying, the old man sat there looking forward to his son coming back from school; The son went to the big city, and the old man sat there expecting him to come home. The son can never come back, and the old man can't even see the last side, so he can only sit there and stare …

(43) In reading interest, Lu Yao has a soft spot for Russian classical literature and Soviet literature. At home, I like A Dream of Red Mansions, all Lu Xun's works and Liu Qing's History of Entrepreneurship. Abroad, I prefer all the works of Tolstoy, Balzac, sholokhov, Stendhal, Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Aitmatov. Tagore's Control of Goethe, Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Newspapers must read the reference news of People's Daily, Guangming Daily and Shaanxi Daily every day. In addition to literary magazines, there are World Knowledge, Globe, World Expo, UFO Exploration, Xinhua Digest, Reader Digest, Youth Digest and other magazines.

(Excerpted from the 15th Anniversary of Luyao, edited by Li Jianjun, New World Press, 2007).