Weeds is the only collection of prose poems by Lu Xun, and its inscription is the preface. Weeds, a collection of prose poems, has been written for nearly three years, and Ming is the last one. It is both a preface and a summary.
The inscription "Wild Grass" was written on1April 26th, 927, which was the fourth day after the Kuomintang Rightists launched the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup. This is less than half a month, which is a crucial moment for Lu Xun's world outlook to undergo a great qualitative change. Mr. Lu Xun turned from the theory of evolution to the theory of Marxist class, emerged from depression and hesitation, and was determined to meet new battles.
Twenty days after writing the Inscription, a friend in Beijing invited the manuscript. Mr. Lu Xun said, "It's really a problem that you want my manuscript, because I have nothing to say now." After writing the inscription for more than a month, Lu Xun said to his friend, "The world of speech here is too dark for Beijing ... because it was difficult to say it directly at that time, sometimes the wording was vague."
So the inscription is the most obscure in the complete works. This is the dilemma that you can't say or dare to say, which leads to the ambiguity of the superficial meaning of this passage and the extreme dependence on the internal language, so that readers can experience it for themselves.
In September of that year, Lu Xun wrote How to Write in Guangzhou, describing his feelings when he was in Xiamen: I leaned against the stone fence and heard my heart sound. It seems that there is infinite sadness, distress, fragmentation and death in the distance, and everything is mixed into this silence, making it into medicinal wine, adding color, taste and fragrance.
At this time, I want to write, but I can't write, I can't write. This is what I call' when I am silent, I feel full, I will open my mouth and feel empty at the same time'. This is the background and mood of Lu Xun's inscription.
Looking back, this road has passed, and I have struggled with fate, times and reality. This kind of struggle just proves my life and struggle. Therefore, facing this past life course, the author is "happy". This is an open-minded attitude of facing up to the past, bidding farewell to the past and bravely marching towards the future.
The last sentence is an expression of determination: "Wild Grass" exists for extinction, and its extinction is a rejection of the old world that Lu Xun yearns for!
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Weeds is a collection of prose poems full of symbolic significance. Symbolism, as a conscious movement of literary schools, began in the 1980s when the French writer Jean Morias published the Manifesto of Symbolism in le figaro. In the 1920s, it became a worldwide modernist literary movement with great influence.
Prose poetry was written at the beginning of the New Poetry Revolution. 19 18 to 1923 Liu Bannong, an early vernacular poet, wrote prose poems such as Xiao, Hunger, Rain, Silence, and Deep in the Moran Ocean. Guo Moruo, the founder of new poetry, took "My Prose Poetry" as the general topic in the current affairs news supplement "The Light of Learning" on February 20th 1920.
Four prose poems were published: Winter, She and He, Woman's Body and Corner of the Earth. From 19 18 to 1924, new youth, morning newspaper supplement, novel monthly, literature weekly, light of learning, awakening, threads and other publications.
Liu Bannong, Zhou Zuoren, Liang Di (Zheng Zhenduo), Shen Xingren, Zhang, Su Zhaolong and others have successively published the prose poems of Turgenev and Baudelaire, and some publications have also published articles introducing and discussing prose poems. It is in this cultural atmosphere that the author published 23 prose poems one after another and compiled them into Weeds.
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