Lu Xun has made great contributions in many fields, such as literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction of basic science and research on ancient books collation. He had a great influence on the development of China's social ideology and culture after the May 4th Movement, and enjoyed a high reputation in the world literary world, especially in the fields of Korean and Japanese ideology and culture. He is known as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century".
Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."
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Lu Xun's criticism is different from the general ideological criticism. He always focuses his criticism on the person, on people's psychology and soul: this is a kind of writer's care. As Lu Xun himself said: "My habits are not very good. Every time I refuse to believe the superficial things, I often have "doubts". So he is most concerned about people's hidden psychological state, even his own unconsciousness. For example, in Lu Xun's essay On Cao Cao, he saw the twisted and contemptible rebellious psychology caused by the feudal hierarchy and family status behind the "national curse" that China people are used to.
Lu Xun also put forward a "backward-pushing" way of thinking, that is, "positive articles look at negative ones", and wrote some essays based on this, such as "Little Miscellaneous Feeling": "Those who call themselves thieves don't have to guard against it, but they are good people; Those who claim to be gentlemen must guard against it and become thieves. " All this is deeply creepy and naturally "malicious". Lu Xun's essay thinking is also non-standard. He often breaks away from the conventional thinking route, finds a new way, is unique and opens up a brand-new way of thinking.