Where is Lu Yao from?

Lu Yao (1949- 1992), a native of Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, entered the Chinese Department of Yan 'an University in 1973 and worked as an editor in a magazine after graduation. As an intellectual who entered the city from the countryside, Lu Yao's novels are deeply influenced by the Confucian farmer-oriented culture, and he has a profound observation on the character, psychology and historical destiny of contemporary farmers. He often shows the family ethics and kindness of farmers through the window of family, and is good at expressing the cultural interaction between urban and rural areas at the intersection of urban and rural areas. Lu Yao's literary path was deeply influenced by Liu Qing and other writers of the older generation in Shaanxi. In his creation, he always adhered to the realistic creative method, grasped the pulse of the times, reflected the aspirations of farmers, took the creation of epic works as his own responsibility, even worked hard for it, exhausted his life, and even died young because of overwork in 1992. Of course, Lu Yao's works are not without flaws, the structure is too straightforward, the dialogue between characters lacks individuality, and the rhythm is rather slow and dull. The characterization in some works tends to make faces, which affects readers' acceptance of Lu Yao to some extent. Lu Yao's novella "Living in 1982" received wide response, and the million-word novel "Ordinary World" in the 1990s won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize. The main works are included in the five-volume Collected Works of Lu Yao published in 1993.