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.
Lu Xun, formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren, whose real name was Yushan, and later changed to Yucai, was born in 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. Lu Xun is not only a great writer and thinker, but also an excellent calligrapher. Because of his great achievements in thought and literature, people often ignore his achievements in calligraphy. Guo Moruo once said that his calligraphy "went far beyond Song and Tang Dynasties and went straight into Wei and Jin Dynasties".
Lu Xun's evaluation
Lu Xun is a real writer in China, and because of this, he has contributed a lot of national works to world literature, which cannot be imitated. His language is in folk form. Although his satire and humor have the same personality as human beings, they also have national characteristics that cannot be imitated.
Lu Xun is a revolutionary thinker, an epoch-making literary writer, a realistic historian, an educator who leads by example and an internationalist who longs for human liberation. Lu Xun's essays are few, but they are excellent. These articles are included in Morning Flowers and Weeds.
Morning Flowers is a review of Lu Xun's childhood and adolescence, and a fragmentary memory of the author's adolescent life, including his childhood impression of Shaoxing, studying in Nanjing, studying in Japan and teaching in Shaoxing after returning to China, especially the description of his hometown life.