《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。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。（The Ordinary World is a million-word novel written by a Chinese writer Lu Yao. Comprised of three volumes, the book is a long story presenting the modern urban and rural social lives of China in a panoramic way. Set in the decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and concentrated on the two brothers Sun Shao'an and Sun Saoping, it depicts images of various common people at all levels of contemporary society through complicated contradictions. Complicated intertwining between labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts has profoundly illustrates difficult and tortuous paths of ordinary people in the historical process of the big age.）