On this day, 33 years ago, on November 17, 1992 (October 23, 1992, the famous Chinese writer Lu Yao passed away. At 8:20 a.m. on November 17, 1992, Lu Yao, a writer who was well-known in the literary world for her novels "Life" and "Ordinary World", was killed by a ruthless disease. Long-term and arduous creation caused him to become ill from overwork. He eventually died of liver failure caused by liver cirrhosis and ascites, and died suddenly in Xi'an Xijing Hospital. Lu Yao, 42, was born into a farmer's family in Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province. He has been committed to literary creation since the 1970s and has taken root in the yellow land for many years. In the early 1980s, he published excellent works such as "Life" and "In Difficult Days", which aroused strong repercussions among readers across the country. After that, with his tenacious perseverance, he devoted himself to completing the million-word masterpiece "Ordinary World" in a period of six years. With its magnificent momentum and epic character, this novel provides a panoramic view of the social life and people's thoughts and emotions in urban and rural areas in China during the reform era. Lu Yao won the Mao Dun Literature Award for this. Lu Yao is a director of China Writers Association and vice chairman of Shaanxi Province Writers Association.