路遥 (Lù Yáo) · Lu Yao

Meanings

1 Lu Yao
2 Chinese novelist, author of Ordinary World (平凡的世界)

About Lu Yao

1949–1992 · 作家 writer

Novelist from rural Shaanxi whose 平凡的世界, the story of two farmer brothers in the reform years, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize and is still among the most-read novels in China.

Also called 王卫国

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

路遥四十二岁就去世了。

Lù Yáo sìshí èr suì jiù qùshì le.

Lu Yao died at just forty-two.

HSK 6

路遥的《平凡的世界》影响了一代人。

Lù Yáo de 《 Píngfán de Shìjiè 》 yǐngxiǎng le yídài rén.

Lu Yao's Ordinary World shaped a whole generation.

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culture

His pen name means 'the road is far', the words that open the proverb 路遥知马力，日久见人心, 'a long road tests a horse, time reveals a heart'. From 1988 national radio broadcast 《平凡的世界》 as a serial read by 李野墨, to a huge response.