Abstract: Lu Yao (1949-1992) was a typical realist writer and his works have a complex intertextual relationship with his life experiences. By combing through his growth trajectory, knowledge structure, emotional experience and the context of the times to identify their symbiotic relationship, we can reconstruct, to the maximum extent, his life picture to reveal the generation logic of the writer's spiritual map and its projection on his literary texts. Lu Yao's growth experience in the countryside of northern Shaanxi Province constitutes the “spiritual homeland” of his creation, his in-depth reading of Chinese and foreign realist literature has shaped his writing tone characterized by “grounded narrative,” while the spiritual dynamics of the educated rural youth in the “urban-rural intersection” during the early stage of reform and opening up have become the literary representation of his subjectivity. From the perspective of “creation genesis,” a historical and literary re-reading of his literary texts based on the three dimensions of him–personal growth history, literary reading history and “urban-rural intersection” life history–will ultimately update the previous research path on his writing and provide a new footnote for the domain of Lu Yao studies in general.

Key words: Lu Yao (1949-1992), history of literary reading, history of personal life, urban-rural intersection, realism