Original introduction:
Sister Xianglin was a poor peasant woman who was squeezed by feudal ethics. After her husband died, her cruel mother-in-law wanted to betray her. She was forced to flee and worked as a housekeeper at Master Lu's house in Luzhen, where she was despised and abused. Soon, she was taken away by her mother-in-law's family, and all the wages for working in Master Lu's family were taken away, and then sold to the royal family for marriage.
He Laoliu was a simple and honest farmer. Soon she had her son Amao, and Sister Xianglin finally lived a stable life. However, his fate is ill-fated He Laoliu died of typhoid fever recurrence. Soon, Amao was eaten by a wolf. Sister Xianglin, who suffered a double blow, was forced to be insane, like a walking corpse, but she went to Master Lu's house again in desperation.
However, some people say that she is "guilty" of remarriage and ask her to donate the threshold to "atone", otherwise she will suffer in the "underworld". After her efforts to donate money, she can't get rid of people's discrimination. Finally, she begged along the street and died in the street in the annual "blessing" firecrackers in Luzhen. However, people not only don't pity her, but also call her a fallacy.
This article is excerpted from The Blessing of Modern Lu Xun.
Extended data writing background:
Blessing is a short story written by Lu Xun, a writer of the Republic of China. It was written on February 7th, 1924, first published in Shanghai Oriental Magazine No.21Volume No.6, published on March 25th, 1924, and later included in the collection of novels.
The work describes an intellectual "I" who left his hometown and returned to his hometown at the end of the Lunar New Year, staying at the fourth uncle's house to prepare for "blessing" and witnessing the tragedy of the death of the former maid Xianglinsao of the fourth uncle's house.
Through the description of Xianglinsao's tragic life, the novel shows the author's sympathy for oppressed women and ruthless exposure of feudal thoughts and feudal ethics. It also expounds that the enlightenment intellectuals like "I" in the article were indifferent and at a loss to the selfish and indifferent social status quo at that time.
The 1920s was the development period of the New Culture Movement in China. Lu Xun hailed the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911 with great enthusiasm, but he soon saw that after the Revolution of 1911, although the imperial regime was overthrown, it was replaced by the rule of the warlord bureaucrats of the landlord class, and the foundation of the feudal society was not completely destroyed.
Farmers, in particular, live a life of hunger and cold, and patriarchal clan system and feudal ethics are still the spiritual shackles of the people. Under this social background, driven by personal sense of social responsibility, Mr. Lu Xun wrote this novel on February 7, 1924/kloc-0.
About the author:
Lu Xun (188 1 ~ 1936), formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou and Zhou Shuren. The words Yushan, Yuting, Yucai and Chen Bing. Besides Lu Xun, there are pen names such as Deng Jiang, Tang Yi, Deng Dangdai and Jiao Xiao. China is a great proletarian writer, thinker, revolutionary and educator in modern times.
His works were included in Complete Works of Lu Xun and Letters of Lu Xun, and various ancient books edited and revised by Lu Xun were reprinted. 198 1 published The Complete Works of Lu Xun (sixteen volumes * *), and in 2005, The Complete Works of Lu Xun (eighteen volumes * *).