"Ordinary world" is a panoramic expression of the contemporary Chinese urban and rural social life in the novel. On the basis of the original book three abbreviated as a, the content is more concentrated. The author in nearly a decade to ask broad background, through the complex conflicts, score of the images of all walks of many ordinary people. And love of labor, setbacks and pursue, suffering and happiness, daily life and the huge social conflict, the numerous and complicated intertwined, profoundly shows people in the era of big in the historical process through the difficult and tortuous path.

　　《平凡的世界》是一部全景式地表現(xiàn)中國(guó)當(dāng)代城鄉(xiāng)社會(huì)生活的長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)。在原書(shū)三本的基礎(chǔ)上縮寫(xiě)為一本，內(nèi)容更為集中。作者在近十年問(wèn)廣闊背景上，通過(guò)復(fù)雜的矛盾糾葛，刻劃了社會(huì)各階層眾多普通人的形象。勞動(dòng)與愛(ài)情，挫折與追求，痛苦與歡樂(lè)，日常生活與巨大社會(huì)沖突，紛繁地交織在一起，深刻地展示了普通人在大時(shí)代歷史進(jìn)程中所走過(guò)的艱難曲折的道路。