These brothers are Zhou Zuoren and Lu Xun. They achieved the highest achievements in literature during the Republic of China. Maybe many people are familiar with Lu Xun's name, but they may not know that much about Zhou Zuoren. In fact, Zhou Zuoren's literary achievements are no lower than Lu Xun's.
1. Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren represented the rising stars in the literary world at that time
I did not expect that Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren were two brothers, and Zhou Zuoren was Lu Xun’s younger brother. He was four years younger than Lu Xun and ranked second among the three Zhou brothers. In the literary world at that time, there was a saying that there was Lu Xun in the south and Zhou Zuoren in the north, because Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren represented different writing styles and factions.
Zhou Zuoren was actually a very talented person at that time, and he was also very talented in languages. Zhou Zuoren did not have any special language learning, but relied on his own efforts to learn various languages, including English, Japanese and ancient Greek. At the same time, Zhou Zuoren, like Lu Xun, loved reading very much since he was a child, but Zhou Zuoren was far better than Lu Xun in terms of grades.
2. Although Zhou Zuoren is quite talented in literature, he has also taken the wrong path
Zhou Zuoren is indeed as good as Lu Xun in terms of writing, and Lu Xun once Also praise Zhou Zuoren's articles to others. Lu Xun praised the works of his younger brother Zhou Zuoren very much. Whenever Zhou Zuoren published an article, he would buy it himself and read it carefully.
Lu Xun actually liked the essays written by Zhou Zuoren very much. It is said that when Lu Xun was critically ill, he was still reading the works written by his younger brother Zhou Zuoren. But I didn't expect that such a writer who could write good works would have some flattering thoughts.
Zhou Zuoren, like Lu Xun, made great contributions to literature. But in the end he became a traitor, which was indeed despicable. He was as talented as his brother Lu Xun, but he took a different life trajectory.