Lu Xun’s background information:
In his early years, Lu Xun was born into a scholarly family in Dongchangfangkou (now part of Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City) in Kuaiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, China. His name is Zhou Zhangshou. His grandfather, Zhou Fuqing, was a Jinshi of Xinweike in the 10th year of Tongzhi (1871) and served as an official in Beijing. His father, Zhou Boyi, was a scholar, and his mother, Lu Rui. Lu Xun and Zhou Enlai share the same ancestry, and their ancestor is Zhou Dunyi, the founder of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In 1892, 11-year-old Lu Xun studied at Sanwei Bookstore, a private school opened by Shou Jingwu in his hometown of Shaoxing.
In 1893 (the 19th year of Guangxu), Lu Xun's grandfather Zhou Fuqing was dismissed from his post and imprisoned due to a fraud case in the imperial examination. The Lu Xun brothers were placed in the home of their uncle in Huangfuzhuang, more than 30 miles away from the city. Take refuge.
Zhou Fuqing was sentenced to "beheaded in prison" and imprisoned for 8 years. Therefore, the Zhou family had to spend a large amount of gifts every year to keep Zhou Fuqing alive. As a result, the family began to decline. At the same time, his father Zhou Boyi also became seriously ill. He was still in bed and died of illness in 1896.
Family changes had a profound impact on the young Lu Xun. The life scenes of his childhood, such as Baicao Garden, Xianheng Hotel, the countryside around his grandmother's house and other places, became important sources of material for Lu Xun's two later novel collections "Scream" and "Wandering" and the collection of essays "Morning Blossoms Picked Up at Dusk".
Extended information
He is a famous writer and thinker, an important participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."
Lu Xun spent his life in literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, and introduction to basic science. He has made significant contributions to many fields such as the 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.”
Character evaluation
Mao Zedong (proletarian revolutionary): "Lu Xun has the hardest bones. He has no trace of servility or obsequiousness. This is the most precious thing for the people of colonial and semi-colonial countries." Character. Lu Xun is a national hero on the cultural front. "Lu Xun is the leader of China's cultural revolution. He is not only a great writer, but also a great thinker and a great revolutionary."
Jin Liangshou. (Korean literary critic): "The writer who occupied the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the twentieth century."?
Fadeyev (Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, Soviet writer): "Lu Xun is the real Chinese writer , Because of this, he has contributed many national forms and inimitable works to the world's literature. His language is folk style. Inimitable national characteristics." He also evaluated Lu Xun as "China's Gorky"
Guo Moruo (poet and scholar): "Lu Xun is a revolutionary thinker, an epoch-making literary and artistic writer, and a historian who seeks truth from facts. He is an educator who leads by example and an internationalist who longs for human liberation."
Takeuchi Yoshimi (Japanese literary critic): "Lu Xun is the mother of modern Chinese national culture.
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Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia: Lu Xun