The differences between Lu Xun's prose and Zhou Zuoren's prose are: different creative methods, different expressions of emotions, and different language styles
1. Different creative methods
Lu Xun The prose is a recollection of fragments of the author's life as a teenager, including his impressions of Shaoxing as a boy, studying in Nanjing, studying in Japan, and teaching in Shaoxing after returning to China. Most of them describe life in his hometown.
Zhou Zuoren's prose is closely related to Japanese culture. Zhou Zuoren's prose is closer to Japan, and he often uses creation to relieve loneliness and sorrow.
2. The emotions expressed are different
Lu Xun’s prose is more clear, innocent and friendly. The pen that uses emotions to drive collective memories is not prominent in "Blooms Picked Up at Morning and Evening". The dissatisfaction with the boring, absurd, and foolish world in the old life is not prominent.
There is a kind of "emotion" (tone), "smell", or "state" that can only be understood indescribably in Zhou Zuoren's prose. There are deep and shallow emotions in Zhou Zuoren's articles. There is always a faint feeling of "sorrow for things".
3. Different language styles
Lu Xun’s prose is as objective as possible and does not criticize at will. It touches the readers’ hearts in simple words and stories, and the language is both gorgeous and difficult. In one body.
Zhou Zuoren's prose was influenced by Japanese aesthetic experience to a certain extent. Related to this influence, he formed a writing style similar to traditional Japanese literature, writing about personal leisure in a gentle and diluted style. , loneliness and injustice, playing with the bitterness of life.
Extended information
Lu Xun (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, was later renamed Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Yushan and later Hencai. A native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous writer, thinker, revolutionary, democratic fighter, important participant in the New Culture Movement, and one of the founders of modern Chinese literature.
Lu Xun made significant contributions in many fields throughout his life, including literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction to basic science, and collation and research of ancient books.
He had a great influence on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement. He is famous in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan. The writer who occupies the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia.”