Selected from Lu Xun's collection of retrospective essays "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Dusk"
"A Chang and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"" is a work written by Lu Xun, a modern thinker and writer, in 1926. A retrospective narrative essay. This article describes how Lu Xun got along with his aunt Chang when he was a child. It describes the eldest mother's kind, simple yet superstitious, nagging, "full of troublesome etiquette" character. He seeks to buy and give her the drawings he has longed for. The "Book of Mountains and Seas" is full of respect and gratitude, expressing sincere thoughts about this working woman and deep nostalgia for the time when she was young and ignorant. The language of the whole text is plain and vivid, and the true feelings are revealed everywhere. In the narration without any pretense, the readers are brought into the world of the author when he was a child, which makes people feel particularly amiable.
About the author
Lu Xun (1881-1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, was later renamed Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Yushan, and later changed to Hecai. "Lu Xun" was the name he published in "Diary of a Madman" in 1918. The pen name he used when writing the film is also his most widely influential pen name. He is from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Modern writer, thinker, educator, important participant in the May 4th New Culture Movement, and founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation." Dozens of his novels, essays, poems, and essays have been selected into Chinese textbooks for middle and primary schools. The novels "Blessing", "The True Story of Ah Q", "Medicine", etc. have been adapted into movies. At the same time, his works have been translated into more than 50 languages ??including English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, French, and German, and have a large number of readers around the world.
Creative background
This article is a retrospective prose written by Lu Xun in Xiamen on September 18, 1926. It was first published in the 19th issue of the fortnightly magazine "Wangyuan", with a subtitle "Revisiting Old Things No. 6" below the article. Later, Lu Xun compiled it and the other nine chapters of "Revisiting Old Things" into the collection of prose "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk".
On March 18, 1926, the Beiyang warlord government shot dead progressive students. Lu Xun was wanted by the reactionary government and had to teach at Xiamen University. Later, due to being squeezed out by the conservative forces, the author did not want to think about the present, so he could only comfort himself by writing articles recalling his teenage life. So I wrote a collection of memory essays "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening" (*** ten essays). This article is the second part of "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening". It recalls the life spent in my childhood with my family's female worker, A Chang.
Comments from famous writers
Contemporary writer Li Chaoquan's "Centennial Classics of Prose·1917-2015": ""A Chang and "The Book of Mountains and Seas"" tells his story about death in a eloquent style I deeply miss and love my nanny A Chang who has been there for thirty years. A Chang is one of thousands of ordinary Chinese women. She has shortcomings such as ignorance and superstition, but she also has more shining brilliance of humanity. Love and hate, honor and shame. The poet Ai Qing wrote "Dayan River - My Nanny", and Lu Xun wrote about a nanny in prose. The two have similar thoughts and moving emotions, and they have similar artistic similarities. "
Yuan Yonglin, Director of the Social Sciences Department of Fujian Normal University, "Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Chinese Prose": ""A Chang and "The Book of Mountains and Seas"" is a retrospective prose by Lu Xun, which is about recalling people and things. It contains "childhood complex", and his superb skills in writing about people give readers a new understanding of Lu Xun's prose style. Lu Xun chooses typical details and typical events to highlight the main characteristics of the characters' personalities, their voices, looks, and smiles. , enter the gallery of prose with a strong sense of history. Therefore, it is not only the fate of the characters that makes people moved, but also makes you think more deeply about the social and historical environment that caused the fate of the characters. At the same time, this kind of prose by Lu Xun. , also pioneered the portrayal of civilians in modern Chinese prose.
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