The ordinary world is a million word novel written by Lu Yao, a Chinese writer. This novel is a panoramic expression of contemporary Chinese urban and rural social life of the novel, a total of three books. It was first published in December 1986.
With the background of China from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, through complicated contradictions and entanglements, and centering on the two brothers Sun Shao'an and Sun Shaoping, the book depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time; labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and enormous social conflicts intersect with each other. Weaving together, it profoundly demonstrates the arduous and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great age.
In March 1991, the "ordinary world" won the third Mao Dun prize in literature in China.
中文翻译：
《平凡的世界》是中国作家路遥创作的一部百万字的小说。这是一部全景式地表现中国当代城乡社会生活的长篇小说，全书共三部。1986年12月首次出版。
该书以中国70年代中期到80年代中期十年间为背景，通过复杂的矛盾纠葛，以孙少安和孙少平两兄弟为中心，刻画了当时社会各阶层众多普通人的形象；劳动与爱情、挫折与追求、痛苦与欢乐、日常生活与巨大社会冲突纷繁地交织在一起，深刻地展示了普通人在大时代历史进程中所走过的艰难曲折的道路。
1991年3月，《平凡的世界》获中国第三届茅盾文学奖。
拓展资料：
The first part:At the beginning of 1975, sun shaoping, a farmer's son, went to the former west county high school. Later, she fell in love with hao hongmei from the same family of landlord. After being found by classmate hou yuying and said it publicly, the relationship between hao and her gradually deteriorated. Later, hao fell in love with the family's privileged caretakers. Shao ping graduated from high school and returned to his hometown to work as a teacher.
But he was not depressed, and he established friendship with tian xiaoxia, the daughter of tian fujun, deputy director of the county leather committee, who followed the outside world with xiaoxia's help. Xiao ping's brother, xiao an, has been working at home with the village head, tian futang's daughter - the county teacher, tian run ye qingmei zhuma. Xiao an and run ye mutual love heart, but was opposed to tian futang.
Through painful suffering, little an went to shanxi and the diligent and kind-hearted xiulian blind date and married, run ye also had to tears and her father introduced to have the love of her li forward marriage. In order to strengthen his authority, tian futang organized to dig the river dam and the upper reaches for water. In order to "learn agriculture big village", he was so happy that he blew up the mountain xiutian to make people move and made people angry. The course of life has changed.
第一部中文翻译：1975年初农民子弟孙少平到原西县高中读书，他贫困，自卑；后对处境相同的地主家庭出身的郝红梅产生情愫，在被同班同学侯玉英发现并当众说破后，与郝红梅关系渐变恶劣，后来郝红梅却与家境优越的顾养民恋爱。少平高中毕业，回到家乡做了一名教师。
但他并没有消沉，他与县革委副主任田福军女儿田晓霞建立了友情，在晓霞帮助下关注着外面的世界。少平的哥哥少安一直在家劳动，与村支书田福堂的女儿——县城教师田润叶青梅竹马。少安和润叶互有爱慕之心，却遭到田福堂反对。
经过痛苦的煎熬，少安到山西与勤劳善良的秀莲相亲并结了婚，润叶也只得含泪与父亲介绍的一直对她有爱慕之情的李向前结婚。这时农村生活混乱，又遇上了旱灾，田福堂为了加强自己的威信，组织偷挖河坝与上游抢水，不料竟出了人命。为了“农业学大寨”，他好大喜功炸山修田叫人搬家又弄得天怒人怨。生活的航道已改变地步。
The second part: in the spring of 1979, after the third plenary session of the 11th central committee, there were many problems. Tian futang held a branch meeting overnight to resist the responsibility system. Sun shaan led the production team to take the lead in implementing the responsibility system. The quick-witted little security went to town again to pull bricks, and used the money to build kilns to burn bricks (mostly for loans), becoming the "prurient households" of the commune.
The dream and pursuit of shaoping's youth also encouraged him to go out to "explore the world". He became a formal construction worker from wandering range man and finally got a good opportunity to be a coal miner. His girlfriend xiaoxia worked as a reporter in the provincial newspaper after graduating from the teacher's college. Run ye far away from her loving husband to work in the communist youth league committee, causing the loving husband drunk driving disabled, run ye feel guilty to return to her husband, began a happy life.
Her younger brother runsheng has also grown up, he met the fate of the fate of hao hongmei met, finally became husband and wife. Tian futang, the strong man who once dominated the fate of the whole village, is not only resistant to the change in the new era, but also angry for the marriage of his daughter and son.
第二部中文翻译：1979年春，十一届三中全会后百废待兴又矛盾重重，田福堂连夜召开支部会抵制责任制，孙少安却领导生产队率先实行，接着也就在全村推广了责任制。头脑灵活的少安又进城拉砖，用赚的钱建窑烧砖（大部分为贷款），成了公社的“冒尖户”。
少平青春的梦想和追求也激励着他到外面去“闯荡世界”，他从漂泊的揽工汉成为正式的建筑工人，最后又获得了当煤矿工人的好机遇，他的女友晓霞从师专毕业后到省报当了记者，他们相约两年后再相会。润叶远离她不爱的丈夫到团地委工作，引起钟情痴心的丈夫酒后开车致残，润叶感到内疚回到丈夫身边，开始幸福生活。
她的弟弟润生也已长大成人，他在异乡与命运坎坷的郝红梅邂逅，终于两人结为夫妻。往昔主宰全村命运的强人田福堂，不仅对新时期的变革抵触，同时也为女儿、儿子的婚事窝火，加上病魔缠身，弄得焦头烂额。
The third part：In 1982, sun shaoping went to the coal mine and worked hard. From a student, he became an excellent worker. However, when sun shaoping and tian xiaoxia had strong feelings, tian xiaoxia died gloriously for saving the victims in the flood fighting interview. Later, tian fujun sent a telegram to sun shaoping, causing great grief to him.
The brick kiln of shao 'an also had a great development, he decided to borrow money to expand the machine to make bricks, but because the technicians did not know the technology, the brick kiln suffered a lot of losses, later on under the help of friends and the mayor of the county rose again, through several efforts, finally became the leader of the local socialist construction. Unexpectedly, his wife, xiulian, was diagnosed with lung cancer by spitting blood at the celebration of his family's 15,000 yuan expansion of the primary school.
Run ye happy life, born a fat son, run sheng and hao hongmei's marriage has finally been accepted by the parents, and have a lovely daughter. The 27-year-old, who was badly wounded in an accident as a rescue apprentice and had a ruined face, confessed his love to his young playmate, sister jin bo. Instead of being crushed by misfortune, shao ping came out of the hospital, faced reality, and returned to the mine to meet his new life and challenges.
第三部中文翻译：1982年孙少平到了煤矿，尽心尽力干活，从学生成了一名优秀工人。可是，就在孙少平与田晓霞产生强烈感情的时候，田晓霞却因在抗洪采访中为抢救灾民光荣牺牲了，后来田福军给孙少平发了封电报，少平悲痛不已。
少安的砖窑也有了很大发展，他决定贷款扩建机器制砖，不料因技师根本不懂技术，砖窑蒙受很大损失，后来在朋友和县长的帮助下再度奋起，通过几番努力，终于成了当地社会主义建设的领头人。却没想到，少安的妻子秀莲，在欢庆由他家出资一万五千元扩建的小学会上口吐鲜血，确诊肺癌。
润叶生活幸福，生了个胖儿子，润生和郝红梅的婚事也终于得到了父母的承认，并添了可爱的女儿。27岁的少平在一次事故中为救护徒弟也受了重伤，面容尽毁，却遇少时玩伴金波之妹表白，少平为她的前途与自己的感情选择拒绝；他们并没有被不幸压垮，少平从医院出来，面对了现实，又回到了矿山，迎接他新的生活与挑战。