What did Lu Xun's blessing mainly say?

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.

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1, Blessing depicts a world in which all the old ethical systems, whether Confucianism, Taoism or Buddhism, have all failed. However, the "I" in the novel, a "new party", is not ready to rebuild the new ethics. The "I" in the novel returned to Luzhen at the end of the lunar calendar, that is, the season of praying for ancestors, but no one has explained why I came back. During my three days at Master Lu's house, all I did was visit some family and friends.

Obviously, "I" is not going to attend the year-end ceremony in Luzhen; However, do you go back to your hometown at the end of the year just to get a "one yuan a plate" and "stewed shark's fin" in Fuxing Building? Like Lu Fuwei in Lu Xun's novel Going to a Restaurant, the "I" in Blessing is also such an image of "spreading perfunctory ideas and shaping nonsense" between the old and the new world.

2. Of course, "I" sympathize with Sister Xianglin's fate more than ordinary people in Luzhen. But this kind of "sympathy" is limited to her experience and does not include her ethical concerns. In the face of Xianglinsao's problem, if I don't care about the existence of the soul, I won't "enlighten" her, because once I "enlighten" Xianglinsao, I will inevitably bear all the consequences of this "enlightenment" and share the fate with Xianglinsao, which is a kind of "perfunctory and ambiguous" for a world still between the old and the new.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia? Blessing (a short story written by Lu Xun)