Lu Xun is a famous modern writer in China, one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement, the founder and pioneer of modern literature in China, and also a famous modern writer and thinker in China in the western world.
Lu Xun's main achievements include essays, short stories, literature, ideological and social comments, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient classics, essays, modern prose poems, old-fashioned poems, foreign literature and academic translations, woodcut prints, etc., which have had a certain impact on the social and ideological and cultural development of China after the May Fourth Movement and are well-known overseas;
Especially in the ideological and cultural circles of Korea and Japan, it has a very important position and influence. Jin Liangshou, a Korean literary critic, praised him as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century", and he was as famous as Natsume Soseki, a famous Japanese national writer. Lu Xun is also known as China's "soul of china".
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Personality influence
First, literary influence.
Lu Xun is a cultural giant in the 20th century. He has made great contributions to novels, essays, woodcuts, modern poems, old-style poems, translation of famous books, collation of ancient books, modern academics and so on. As a great founder of modern literature in China, several novels by Lu Xun created a new form of China's novels. His prose "shows the achievements of the literary revolution";
His essay style is full of modernity, freedom, criticism and militancy, and it is the most commonly used "critical weapon" for later writers. His essays are an encyclopedia of China's society, politics, history, law, religion, morality, philosophy, literature, art and even cultural psychology, people's nature, people's feelings and customs.
Almost all China writers have developed different literary styles on the basis of Lu Xun's creation. As a translator, he translated a large number of foreign literary works and scientific and natural works, and made great contributions to enlightening people's wisdom and introducing advanced scientific and cultural ideas.
As an art lover, Lu Xun introduced a large number of western woodcut prints, supported young people to learn woodcut prints in spirit, theory and spirit, greatly promoted the spread and development of modern woodcut prints in China, and made outstanding contributions to the artistic cause of modern China.
Second, academic influence.
As an academic researcher, on the one hand, Lu Xun used western literary concepts to study China's classical novels and wrote A Brief History of China's Novels, which not only ended the era of "China's novels have no history", but also created a typical work in the history of literature and "opened countless methods for later study". Guo Moruo and Wang Guowei's History of Song and Yuan Dynasties is called a double gem in the modern academic history of China.
On the other hand, he collated dozens of ancient books, such as Ancient Fiction, Ji, Han Portrait Collection, and Miscellaneous Collection of Old Books in Huiji County, which left great wealth for future generations to study classical literature.
Third, the spiritual influence.
Lu Xun is the soul of china of modern China, and his spirit has a far-reaching influence on his readers, researchers and even generations of modern writers and intellectuals in China. Lu Xun is also one of the world cultural giants in the 20th century.
With his unique personal style, he created the literature "China people should participate in the cause of the present world", "both internal and external cultivation, integration with the world trend of the times, but did not stifle China's nationality". Like the outstanding thinkers and writers in the world at the same time, he paid attention to the problems faced by mankind and made his own unique contribution. ?
Fourth, political influence.
Lu Xun pursued democracy all his life, declared war on the feudal old culture as early as the beginning of the new literature movement, and constantly struggled with the old ideas and old culture that oppressed the people. After the "female normal university student tide", there was an argument with the warlords who persecuted students. Lu Xun is not afraid of violence and writes about war, which shows the spirit of an upright scholar. Later, under the rule of the Kuomintang, he boldly exposed its dark rule.
In the 1930s, he fought against the wrong left-leaning literary line of the * * * production party, and later established the left-wing writers' alliance led by proletarian literary thought in cooperation with literary and art workers under the leadership of the party. As the leader of the Left League, Lu Xun led the Left League to smash the plot of Kuomintang reactionary literature and art to stifle proletarian literature and art.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lu Xun