Lu Xun is a famous modern Chinese writer, one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement, the founder and pioneer of modern Chinese literature, and a modern Chinese writer and thinker who enjoys a high reputation in the Western world. Lu Xun (1881 September) October 25 - October 19, 1936), whose real name was Zhou Shuren, whose original name was Zhang Shou and whose courtesy name was Hencai. He was famous for his pen name Lu Xun and was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
Lu Xun’s main achievements include essays, short novels, literature, ideological and social commentary, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient classics, prose, modern prose poetry, old-style poetry, foreign The study of literary and academic translations and woodcut prints has had a certain impact on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement, and is famous in the world of literature.
It is especially important in the ideological and cultural fields of Korea and Japan. His status and influence were praised by Korean literary critic Kim Yang-soo as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the 20th century."
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In 1918, 37-year-old Zhou Shuren used "Lu Xun" as his pen name for the first time and published the first short story written in a modern form in Chinese history in "New Youth" The vernacular novel "Diary of a Madman". In December 1921, he also published the novella "The True Story of Ah Q". In 1924, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang, Qian Xuantong and others founded the fan weekly "Yu Si".
In 1924, Tagore, the great Indian poet who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, visited the Forbidden City. Beijing arranged for Lu Xun to meet and take photos with Tagore. At that time, the Chinese literary world's evaluation of Tagore's visit to China tended to be polarized. Lu Xun evaluated his visit to China as "making a bottle of perfume."
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