When Lu Xun was in class, a China man who was said to be a Russian detective was going to be beheaded, while many onlookers in China were indifferent and numb. At this time, a Japanese student next to him said, "Look at the numbness of these China people, and you will know that China will definitely perish!" Hearing this, Lu Xun suddenly stood up and cast a stern look at the Japanese.
Lu Xun believes that if China people's thoughts are not conscious, even if they are cured, they will only be meaningless propaganda materials and spectators. What China needs most now is to change people's mental outlook. He finally made up his mind to give up medicine, become a writer and write with a pen to awaken the people of China.
Lu Xun abandoned medicine for literature because he felt the ignorance and numbness of China people, which made him deeply feel that medicine can only save patients' physical pain. To truly save our nation, we must first save people's spirit and awaken people's consciousness.
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.
He had a great influence on the development of China's social ideology and culture after the May 4th Movement, and enjoyed a high reputation in the world literary world, especially in the fields of Korean and Japanese ideology and culture. He is known as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century".
Lu Xun is a cultural giant in the 20th century. He has made great contributions to novels, essays, woodcuts, modern poems, old-style poems, translation of famous books, collation of ancient books, modern academics and so on. As a great founder of modern literature in China, several novels by Lu Xun created a new form of China's novels. His prose "shows the achievements of the literary revolution".
His essay style is full of modernity, freedom, criticism and militancy, and it is the most commonly used "critical weapon" for later writers. His prose is an encyclopedia of China's society, politics, history, law, religion, morality, philosophy, literature, art and even cultural psychology, human nature, human feelings and people.
Almost all China writers have developed different literary styles on the basis of Lu Xun's creation. As a translator, he translated a large number of foreign literary works and scientific and natural works, and made great contributions to enlightening people's wisdom and introducing advanced scientific and cultural ideas.
As an art lover, Lu Xun introduced a large number of western woodcut prints, supported young people to learn woodcut prints in spirit, theory and spirit, greatly promoted the spread and development of modern woodcut prints in China, and made outstanding contributions to the artistic cause of modern China.
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