In 1970s, Sun Shaoping (Justin), a farmer's son with strong self-esteem, studied in Xixian High School and fell in love with the landlord Hao Hongmei (Wang). Later, Hao Hongmei fell in love with Gu (Zhang Haotian), the monitor of a superior family. Tian Runsheng (Yin), a classmate in the same village, gave him a good beating for this. Stubborn Shao Ping refused to admit that she was lovelorn, but began to struggle with her self-esteem and inferiority, and actively participated in the rehearsal of regional performances. Tian Xiaoxia (Annabel Lee), the daughter of the county leader, is attracted by her sensitivity and self-esteem. Shao Ping failed in the college entrance examination and returned to work in his hometown. After experiencing such events as drought, water grabbing and death, he flatly rejected Hou (Zhao Jun Zan)' s pursuit of going into the city as bait, leaving his hometown and working vagrantly. After graduating from junior high school, my brother (Chloe Wang) farmed at home, and Tian Runye (), the daughter of village secretary Tian, was childhood friends, which was strongly opposed by Tian. In the end, Shao An married a hardworking and kind Shanxi girl, He Xiulian (Coco), opened a brick kiln and embarked on the road to wealth.
Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel which shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way and consists of three books. First published in February, 1986.
The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life at that time. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. 1991March, Ordinary World won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in China.