Nowadays, society has progressed, and the public is a bit more tolerant than before,counties and rural areas are also much more open, and more and more young people in literature and art.
Of course, the label "rural people" still gives people a lot of stereotypes today. For the questioner and many others, "rural people" implies a big problem - when a person is in the countryside, he has transcended the commonplace, but his eyes are still full of dirt and rice, and the people around him can't understand his thinking and pain, then what does transcending the commonplace mean to him? What is the meaning of transcending mediocrity for him?
This kind of questioning has happened to Yu Xiu-hua, to Zhao Lin (a peasant writer whose story is interesting but little known), and will predictably continue to happen to Wei Mumu. It's as if rural people, especially rural women, once "awakened," will be plunged into misery.
But this is not the case. Transcending the ordinary life does not mean that you have to disassociate yourself from everyday life, nor does it mean that you have to stop eating the food of the world. Living beyond mediocrity means that you are doing more than just repeating the actions necessary for survival, more than just fulfilling the desires necessary for survival.
You are more than consuming, you are creating. Not making things that are the same as others, but things that are uniquely yours, that condense your mind and heart. These things are different from everything else in the world, and that is transcending mediocrity.