The contemporary novella The Legend of Tianyunshan is Lu Yanzhou's masterpiece. It was published in Qingming 1979,No. 1, and was published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House in June, 1980. After that, it won "1977 ~/kloc" nationwide.
In Wei Song's unique first-person narrative, Zhou Yuzhen's narrative is flexible and interspersed, integrating history and reality, focusing on Luo Qun's bumpy life experience from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s. Luo Qun, the protagonist, is the first person in contemporary literature who is wrongly classified as the Rightist and abides by revolutionary beliefs. The three women around Luo Qun, Wei Song, Feng Qinglan and Zhou Yuzhen, also have distinct personalities and their own characteristics. Wei Song's life path is a summary of the fate and experience of intellectual women who participated in the revolution in 1950s. Her re-understanding of Wu Yao profoundly reflects that good people are breaking away from the shackles of ultra-left thinking and moving towards mature changes.
The novel extends the brush strokes to the earlier 1950s, and explores the causes and processes of the emergence and development of left-leaning errors, which aroused strong repercussions at that time. After the film of the same name adapted by the author himself came out, it also received rave reviews and caused some controversy. The film won the 1 Golden Rooster Award and the 4th Hundred Flowers Award.