Abstract
Luo Yao is a Chinese contemporary writer who has gained tremendous popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with his masterpiece Life(Rensheng) and Ordinary World(Pingfandeshijie). The young people, who read his novels and contacted with films and dramas, agreed with and resonated with the figures, stories in the works, raising the so-called ‘Lu Yao Syndrome’. The main figure that Luo Yao created in his works is Huixiang Zhiqing(educated youths who return to the countryside). It refers to young people who had received secondary education in a certain period of China, but had returned to their original hometown, where they could not settle down because of lack of advanced schooling or job opportunities. Lu Yao portrayed rural youths as struggling in `the Urban-Rural Cross Area` in the 1980s, conflicting with their contradictory circumstances. It was accompanied by the young people’s discussion of the view on life, and prompted the explosive response of the youths.
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