Lu Xun's introduction:
Lu Xun (188 1 year September 25th-1936 10 year10/9), originally named Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren as Yushan, and later changed to Yucai, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. A famous writer, thinker, revolutionary, educator, democracy fighter, an important participant in the New Culture Movement, and one of the founders of modern literature in China.
In his early years, he went to Japan to study at public expense with Li Suizhi and Qian Junfu, and graduated from Sendai Medical College in Japan. "Lu Xun", 19 18, is the most commonly used pseudonym when he published Diary of a Madman.
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".
Thesis:
After his death, Cai Yuanpei, Xu Guangping and others compiled and published Lu Xun's unpublished essays, which were included in the first edition of The Complete Works of Lu Xun. However, due to the rush of time, it is inevitable to leave pearls.
1948 and 1952, Tang Tao edited and published Supplement to the Complete Works of Lu Xun and Supplement to the Complete Works of Lu Xun. These articles were later compiled into various versions of the Complete Works of Lu Xun in different ways, and there are many names for these collections in these complete works.
Novel features:
Lu Xun's novels are unique in material selection. In the choice of subject matter, Lu Xun reformed the mode of "loyal and brave counselors, thieves and robbers, monsters and immortals, talented women, prostitutes and clients, hooligans and slaves" in classical literature.
The purpose of enlightenment creation of "for life" has created two major themes of modern literature: "expressing farmers and intellectuals". His materials "are mostly taken from the unfortunate people in the sick society." Lu Xun has an extremely unique vision in dealing with these subjects.