Lu Xun's "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk",
Lu Xun (1881~1936) was a writer and thinker on the third day of August in the seventh year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (September 25, 1881) and revolutionaries. His original name was Zhou Shuren, his courtesy name was Hencai, and he was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Born in Dongchangfangkou, Huiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing City). Born into a declining scholar-bureaucrat family. Lu Xun was the pen name he started using when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918. Lu Xun went to Nanjing to study in 1898 and studied medicine in Japan in 1902. After suffering from pain and treating numbness, the national spirit became more important than treating physical pain, so he changed his career to promote literary and artistic movements. He returned to China in 1909 and worked as a middle school teacher in Hangzhou and Shaoxing. In 1918, he participated in the editorial work of "New Youth" and published the first vernacular novel "Diary of a Madman" in "New Youth". Later, he published "Kong Yiji", "Medicine", "The True Story of Ah Q", etc. He is a famous novelist and wrote a large number of essays and essays, criticizing old ideas and morals, and became one of the advocates of new culture. In 1923, he published his first collection of novels, "The Scream," which became the foundation work of China's new literature. Lu Xun also made outstanding achievements in translating foreign literature and collating ancient Chinese books.
In 1898, he went to Nanjing to study. He first entered the Jiangnan Naval Academy, and the following year was admitted to the Mining and Railway School attached to the Jiangnan Naval Academy. During this period, he came into contact with the "science" and "democracy" of the Western bourgeoisie. In 1902, he went to Japan to study and entered Hongbun College in Tokyo. In 1904, he went to Sendai Medical College to study medicine. Two events that happened there had a great impact on him, and he gave up studying medicine.
Writing background
Lu Xun was already an important writer in the literary world when he wrote "Plucked Morning Flowers at Dusk". After the "March 18th" massacre in 1926, Lu Xun wrote "In Memory of Mr. Liu Hezhen" and other articles, angrily denounced the shameless behavior of the reactionary government. He was persecuted by the reactionary government and had to live a homeless life. He once took refuge in Yamamoto Hospital, German Hospital and other places. Despite the hard life, he also wrote a lot of prose poems and three essays such as "Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures", "Five Rampant Meetings" and "Impermanence", which were later combined with "Dog? Cat? Rat" and "A Chang" written by Lu Xun before the tragedy. and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" were included in the collection of essays "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening".
In September 1926, Lu Xun accepted an appointment from Xiamen University and went south to teach. However, he only stayed at Xiamen University for more than four months because he found that the air in Xiamen University was just as polluted as in Beijing. Lu Xun saw the ugly faces of various intellectuals here and criticized them mercilessly. Although Lu Xun did not like Xiamen University, he devoted all his efforts to the courses he took, and the courses he took were very popular among students. In addition to busy teaching, Lu Xun wrote many works, including five essays: "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore", "Father's Illness", "Miscellaneous Notes", "Mr. Fujino" and "Fan Ainong". These five essays and the other five essays written in Beijing constitute the entire "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk".
"Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening" was published in 1927.
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"Dog? Cat? Rat" - In this article, Mr. Lu Xun liquidated the cat's crimes: First, the cat did to himself The prey you catch is always played with to the fullest before you eat it; secondly, it is from the same family as the liger, but it is naturally charming; thirdly, it always howls when it cooperates, which is annoying; fourthly, it eats Got a little hidden mouse that I loved as a child. Although it was later confirmed that the cat was not the cause, I would not have a good impression of the cat, not to mention that it did eat the rabbit later! This article takes the genre of "cat" and satirizes people in life who are similar to cats in a sharp and vivid way.
"A Chang and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"" - A Chang was Lu Xun's nanny when he was a child. It describes the scenes of getting along with A Chang when he was a child, and describes the kind, simple yet superstitious, nagging, and "full of troublesome etiquette" character of the eldest mother; he seeks to buy and give her the painting "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" that he has longed for. Feelings, full of respect and gratitude. The article uses affectionate language to express the sincere memory of this working woman.
"Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" - The so-called "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" is a book telling the story of the twenty-four filial sons in ancient China, with pictures, and its main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. Mr. Lu Xun started from his own feelings of reading "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" when he was a child, focusing on describing the strong disgust caused by reading the two stories of "Lao Lai Entertaining His Parents" and "Guo Ju Burying His Son", vividly exposing the hypocrisy of feudal filial piety. and cruelty, revealing the pity of children in old China.
"Wu Yang Hui" - Wu Yang Hui is a meeting to welcome the gods, and it was a festival in my childhood. It describes the eagerness and excitement when I was a child looking forward to watching the God-welcoming Games, and the disappointing and painful feeling of being forced by my father to recite "Jianlue". Point out that forced feudal education suppresses and destroys children's nature.
"Impermanence" - Impermanence is a ghost with a human touch. When he went to seduce the soul, he saw his mother crying to death and his son was so sad. Forty sticks were struck. When recalling impermanence, the article occasionally adds a few lines of satire on the so-called gentlemen in reality. The illusory impermanence gave some comfort to Lu Xun's lonely and desolate heart at that time.
"From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" - describes the fun that children had in the Baicao Garden at home and the boring life of studying in Sanwei Bookstore, revealing children's broad life interests and the feudal books that constrain children's nature The sharp contradictions in private school education express the reasonable demand that children should be allowed to grow up healthily and lively.
"Father's Disease" - His father was treated to death by quack doctors, which has always been the pain buried in Lu Xun's heart. The article focuses on recalling the scenes of treating his father's illness as a child, describing the medical attitudes, styles, prescriptions and other performances of several "famous doctors", revealing the essence of these people who do not distinguish between witch doctors and doctors, make mysteries, extort money, and disregard human lives.
"Miscellaneous Notes" - In this article, Lu Xun mainly recalled the process of leaving Shaoxing to study in Nanjing. The work describes the various shortcomings of the Jiangnan Naval School and the Mining and Railway School at that time and the difficulties in seeking knowledge, and criticizes the "smoky atmosphere" of the Westernization school. The author describes his excitement when he first came into contact with the theory of evolution and how he eagerly read "The Theory of Evolution" despite the objections of his elders, showing his strong desire to explore the truth.
"Mr. Fujino" - records the author's study and life in Japan, describing how he was discriminated against and insulted by Japanese students while studying medicine in Sendai, and how he decided to abandon medicine and pursue literature. The author prominently describes the Japanese teacher Mr. Fujino’s noble character of rigor, integrity, enthusiasm and no national prejudice, and expresses his deep memory of Mr. Fujino.
"Fan Ainong" - narrates several life fragments of the author's contact with Fan Ainong when he was studying in Japan and after returning to China. It describes Fan Ainong's dissatisfaction with the dark old society and pursuit of revolution before the revolution, and how he suffered greatly after the Revolution of 1911. The experience of combating persecution reflects the disappointment in the old democratic revolution and the sympathy and mourning for this upright and stubborn patriot