Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936) was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His original name was Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy names of Yushan and Yuting, and later changed his name to Yucai. He often wears a simple Chinese-style gown, his hair is as straight as a brush, and his thick beard forms the character "一" in official script. Chairman Mao commented that he was a great proletarian writer, thinker, and revolutionary, and the leader of China's cultural revolution. It is also called the "national soul" by the people.
Lu Xun's main representative works include: the novel collection "Scream" and "Wandering", the prose collection "Morning Flowers Picked at Dusk", the prose poetry collection "Weeds", the essay collection "Huagai Collection", etc.
Born on September 25, 1881 in Dongchangfangkou, Huiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing City), and his ancestral home is Runan County, Henan Province. Grandpa named him Zhou Zhangshou (Zhang Guan'er). In his youth, he was influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution and Tolstoy's philanthropic thoughts. In 1898, he changed his name to Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Hencai. In 1902, he went to Japan to study at public expense. He originally studied medicine at Sendai Medical College and had the ideal to use his own hands to treat diseases and save people. Later, due to the war, he changed his career as a writer and engaged in literary and artistic work, hoping to change the national spirit (see the preface to "The Scream"). From 1905 to 1907, he participated in the activities of the revolutionary party and published papers such as "On the Power of Moro Poetry" and "On Cultural Partiality". During this period, he returned to China and married his wife Zhu An at the order of his mother. In 1909, together with his brother Zhou Zuoren, he co-translated "Collection of Foreign Novels" to introduce foreign literature. He returned to China in the same year and taught in Guangzhou and Shaoxing successively. In 1918, he published the first vernacular novel "A Madman's Diary" in Chinese history under the pen name "Lu Xun". In 1927, he married Ms. Xu Guangping and gave birth to a boy named Zhou Haiying. Have 3 nieces. Died of illness in Shanghai on October 19, 1936. His works are included in "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", his works and "Collected Letters of Lu Xun", and he has reprinted various ancient books compiled by Lu Xun. Later, "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" (***16 volumes) was published in 1981. In 2005, "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" (***18 volumes) was published. His works are mainly novels and essays. Among the novels, "Blessing", "The True Story of Ah Q", and "Diary of a Madman" are relatively well-known. Dozens of Lu Xun's novels, essays, poems, and essays have been selected into Chinese textbooks for middle and primary schools. His novels "Blessing", "The True Story of Ah Q", and "Medicine" have been adapted into movies. Lu Xun museums and memorial halls have been established in Beijing, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Guangzhou, Xiamen and other places. At the same time, his works have been translated into more than 50 languages ????such as English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, French, and German, and have a vast audience around the world. reader. Lu Xun used his pen instead of fighting, wrote hard and wrote hard, and fought all his life. He was known as the "soul of the nation". Mao Zedong evaluated him as a great writer, thinker and revolutionary, and the leader of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. "With cold brows and cold eyes, he bows his head and is willing to be a bully" is a portrayal of Mr. Lu Xun's life.
When Lu Xun passed away, Yu Dafu wrote the following words in "Prestigious Lu Xun":
Prestigious Lu Xun*Yu Dafu
——Yu Dafu
It was like a bolt from the blue. At the banquet in Nantai, I suddenly heard about Lu Xun’s death.
After sending several telegrams and gathering luggage overnight, I hurriedly jumped on the ship bound for Shanghai the next day.
The boat docked at 8 a.m. on the 22nd. I took a shower at home, swallowed two mouthfuls of rice, and ran to the Wanguo Funeral Home on Jiaozhou Road. All I saw were sincere faces, enthusiastic faces, and sad and angry faces. , and the hearts, lungs and clenched fists of thousands of young men and women that are about to burst.
This is not an ordinary funeral, nor is it gloomy sorrow. This is just like the moment of silence that fills the space between heaven and earth when a big earthquake is about to come, or when dawn is approaching.
Life and death, body, soul, tears, lamentations, these questions and feelings seem too insignificant here. On the other side of Lu Xun's death, a greater and more violent light of silence shines.
A nation without great figures is the most pitiful group of creatures in the world; a country that has great figures but does not know how to support, love and admire them is a country of slaves without hope, because Lu Xun Lu Xun's death made people realize that the nation can still do something good, and because of Lu Xun's death, people saw that China was still a semi-desperate country with a strong sense of slavery.
Lu Xun’s coffin was buried in shallow soil in the dark night, but a reddish crescent moon appeared in the western corner of the sky.
In Shanghai on October 24, 1936
(Originally published in "Literature" Volume 7, No. 5, November 1, 1936)