Lu Xun took great care of books when he was a child. When he buys back a book, he must check it carefully. If there are stains or binding problems, he must go to the bookstore to change them. Some thread-bound books are easy to get off the thread, so he changed the cover and re-bound them himself.
Lu Xun's good habit of loving books as treasures since childhood runs through his life. He has read a lot of books. According to the book account statistics in Lu Xun's Diary, from 19 12 to 1939, he bought more than 9,000 books. His books are always bound in sequence. Lu Xun was poor all his life, and his greatest asset was his precious collection of books.
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Lu Xun likes reading. At that time, it was the introduction of western culture, and excellent western works came out almost every month. In order to buy these books, Lu Xun scrimped and saved and went hungry from time to time. He still wears thin clothes in the cold winter.
Lu Xun is the youngest in the class, but he gets the best grades. He has a strong understanding and memory, and he usually studies hard, so he almost won the first prize.
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".