Celebrities are always invited to give speeches, and Lu Xun is no exception. His speech is full of allusions, full of wit, and is often surrounded by applause and laughter. Once he returned to Peiping from Shanghai, Beijing Normal University invited him to give a speech entitled "Literature and Force".
Some students read many articles attacking him in the newspaper, which is unfair to him. In his speech, he said: "Some people say that I came to Peiping this time to grab my job and make a comeback; But please rest assured that I will make a comeback soon. "
2. Punctuation fee
Although punctuation is ugly, it plays an important role in the article. But in those days, the publishing industry paid little attention to punctuation marks, and when paying the manuscript fee, it was often deducted from the number of words, and the manuscript fee was not given. On one occasion, Lu Xun was asked to write for a publishing house. Because he found out in advance that the publishing house had not paid the manuscript fee for punctuation marks, there were no punctuation marks in his manuscript.
After reading the manuscript, the editor wrote back and asked Lu Xun to add punctuation marks on the grounds that it was difficult to break sentences. Lu Xun replied: "it is necessary for the author to add punctuation marks to separate paragraphs and chapters, so punctuation marks are still essential." In this case, punctuation marks have to be counted. " The publishing house had no choice but to adopt Lu Xun's opinion, and punctuation marks were also converted into words to pay the manuscript fee.
3. The Story of Beard
His beard is also very personal. In those years when he came back from studying in Japan, his beard was Japanese-it looked funny at both ends, and he was ridiculed by people around him, saying that he worshipped foreign things and admired foreign things. Lu Xun was very angry and simply changed his beard into the word "one" in official script, and they lived happily ever after.
I have seen photos of Lu Xun when he was young, but I don't think he is very handsome, at least far from the so-called "first handsome man" in Korea and Japan. But Lu Xun has great confidence in himself. Once the British writer Bernard Shaw met him and said that everyone said that you are Gorky of China, but I think you are more beautiful than Gorky.
After listening to such praise, Lu Xun was not only humble, but even said, "I will be more beautiful when I am old!" " "This old man is really interesting.
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.
On the other hand, he collated dozens of ancient books, such as Ancient Novels, Ji, Portraits of Han Dynasty, and Miscellaneous Books of Huiji Old Books, which left a great fortune for later generations to study classical literature.