China is a great modern writer, thinker and revolutionary. Lu Xun was originally named Zhou Zhangshou and later renamed Zhou Shuren, Zhang Shou and Cai Yu. Lu Xun is the pseudonym he used after taking part in the May 4th Movement. Because of his growing influence, people used to call him Lu Xun.
Lu Xun, 188 1, was born in a feudal scholar-bureaucrat family in Fangkou, Duchang, Shaoxing. Enlightened at the age of 7, 12 years old went to study in Santan Yinyue. He is diligent, curious, knowledgeable and good at remembering. He likes reading unofficial history's notes and folk literature books after school, and becomes interested in painting. Since then, he has laid a solid cultural foundation. He is not confined to the four books and five classics, but tries to find extracurricular reading materials and master historical and cultural knowledge.
Shaoxing's long history and splendid culture, especially the moral articles of many Vietnamese and China sages, have greatly influenced and played a role in Lu Xun's thought. When Lu Xun was a teenager, his grandfather was imprisoned for the imperial examination case, his father died, and his family wealth plummeted from then on. Lu Xun changed from the eldest son of a feudal scholar-bureaucrat family to a ruined child.
The family suffered a series of major changes, which made the young Lu Xun suffer from the cold and warm world, saw the true face of the "cold world" and realized the decay and decline of feudal society. Lu Rui, Lu Xun's mother, is the daughter of a farmer. She has a noble character and has a great influence on Lu Xun.
1898 In the spring, Lu Xun left his hometown and was admitted to Nanjing Jiangnan Naval Academy with new hopes in life. The following year, dissatisfied with the school's "cigar smoke", I changed to the Mining and Metallurgy School affiliated to Jiangnan Lushi College. He has extensive contact with western natural science and social science, read Time and Evolution, and was deeply influenced by the reform trend of thought and evolution theory, and initially formed a social development concept of "the future is better than the past, and teenagers are better than the elderly".
1902, Lu Xun graduated with honors and was sent by the government to study in Japan. He first entered Hongwen College in Tokyo to study Japanese, and then entered Sendai Medical College to study medicine. Deeply influenced by the wave of bourgeois democratic revolution, he actively participated in the flood of anti-Qing revolution. After school, I made a vow of "I recommend Xuanyuan with blood".
1906 Facing the facts, Lu Xun felt the weakness of his compatriots at home and realized the importance of changing the national character. He resolutely abandoned medicine to join the army and took a decisive step on the road of life. He chose literature and art and used pen as his fighting weapon to save the country and the people.
He participated in the preparation of the literary magazine New Life, and wrote some important early papers such as History of Mankind, Teaching of History of Science, Theory of Cultural Deviation, and Theory of Moro Poetry. Lu Xun believes that China's serious problem lies in people, not things; It lies in spirit, not in matter; It lies in personality, not "people"; "Building a country" must first "establish a person", and the key to "establish a person" lies in the awakening of personality and the excitement of spirit.
Brief introduction of Lu Xun:
Lu Xun wrote a poem "Self-mockery", in which two lines are "looking at a thousand fingers coldly and bowing down as a willing ox", which is a true portrayal of his life. Lu Xun wrote more than 8 million words of translation in his life. His works such as Scream, Wandering, Weeds, Morning Flowers, Evening Picking, etc. were reprinted in one edition and translated into English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, Esperanto and other languages, which are world-renowned. The complete works of Lu Xun are the precious spiritual wealth he left to the people of China and the people all over the world.