This sentence comes from Mr. Lu Xun's "Have the Chinese People Lost their Self-Confidence?" and does not refer to anyone in particular.
"Since ancient times, we have people who work hard, people who work hard, people who pray for the people, people who sacrifice their lives to seek the Dharma,... even though it is equivalent to serving emperors and generals. The so-called "official history" of writers' genealogies often cannot cover up their brilliance, which is the backbone of China. "
"Have Chinese People Lost Their Self-confidence" was written by the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun during the Republic of China. An essay he wrote was first published in 1934 and later compiled into "Qiejieting Essays". Written on the third anniversary of the September 18th Incident, it refuted the pessimistic views on the future of social resistance at that time and the accusations that the Chinese people had lost their self-confidence, and inspired national self-confidence.
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Characteristics of Lu Xun's essays
Lu Xun's essays are extremely critical. Lu Xun once divided his essays into "social criticism" and "civilization criticism" , what is emphasized is the connotation and function of "criticism" of essays. Opening the 14 collections of essays published by Lu Xun in sequence, you can see a chronicle of ideological and cultural struggles that constantly criticized, debated, and counterattacked: starting from "The Hot Wind", the criticism of feudal ethics and old traditions The criticism and the debate with the restorationists continued until the "Final Collection of Qiejieting Essays" protested against the fascist dictatorship of the Kuomintang government and counterattacked the "Left" line within the Communist Party of China.
The unyielding spirit of "if you cannot defeat the enemy, the war will continue" as shown in Lu Xun's essays is fundamentally contrary to Chinese culture and the "forgiveness" and "moderate" of Chinese scholar-officials and intellectuals. "Tradition embodies the rebelliousness and heterogeneity of Lu Xun and his writings.
In line with the unconstrained thinking, the language of Lu Xun's essays is also unrestrained and highly creative. Lu Xun's essays can be said to have brought the ideographic and lyrical functions of Chinese to the extreme. In his essays: there are some mixtures of spoken and classical Chinese sentence patterns; some cross-use of parallelism and repetition of situations; some interweaving of long and short sentences, declarative sentences and rhetorical questions, mixing the simplicity of prose with the beauty and momentum of parallel prose. It can be described as "affectionate and luxuriant".
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Have the Chinese lost their self-confidence