The name is Yushan, and later changed to Hecai.
Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 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 of "The Madman" he published in 1918 The pen name he used when writing "Diary" is also his most widely influential pen name. He is from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province.
A famous writer, thinker, and democracy fighter, an important participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."
Lu Xun spent his life in literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, and introduction of basic science. He has made significant contributions to many fields such as the collation and research of ancient books.
He had a significant influence on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement. He is famous in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan. The writer who occupies the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia.”
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The artistic characteristics of Lu Xun's ancient poetry mainly include the following points:
1. Distinctive personality and true image. In Lu Xun's ancient poetry, readers can often truly feel the emotions the author wants to express through the various natural scenery or specific characters he describes. These scenery are very wide in scope and have profound meaning, such as "Thousands of Forests", "Heron Shadow", "Yellow Sheep", etc. The characters include "husband", "loving mother", "husband", "hero", etc.
Sometimes, the author often uses himself as the subject of the poem in the form of a self-portrait to express his thoughts directly and let the world know what he wants to criticize and praise with a broad mind. theme.
For example, in the poem "Untitled: Accustomed to Long Nights to Celebrate Spring", the author uses "There are faint maternal tears in the dream, and the king's flag changes on the city wall." A simple and clear sentence to describe the relationship between family members surrounded by white. His thoughts and the scenes of warlords fighting and people struggling to survive are vividly outlined.
The author does not use too much language to pave the way, but only relies on the two images of "mother's tears" and "king's flag" to express it in a point-to-point manner.
2. The language is simple and the intention is profound. The language of Lu Xun's poems is simple and natural, without too many embellishments and renderings. It makes people feel friendly and natural when reading it. However, when you taste it carefully, you can immediately find that the intention it expresses, and the emotion it promotes are far from that. Simple.
For example, in the poem "The Gengzi Sends the Stove to the Kitchen", one can clearly find Lu Xun's hidden emotion in the poem - the satire and lashing of feudal superstition. The author chose this incident to reflect the poverty in his family. The implicit content is that the Kitchen God does not exist. Worshiping the Kitchen God will only make the family's poverty worse. The only way to get rid of fate is to rely on oneself and rely on personal struggle to gain tomorrow. of happiness.
3. Rich rhetoric and various forms. In terms of rhetoric, Lu Xun's commonly used rhetoric includes metaphors, hyperbole, allusions, irony, antithesis, etc. These rhetorical techniques with different functions and distinctive characteristics have become good weapons in Lu Xun's writings to promote ideas and vent emotions, and also allow readers to deeply understand Lu Xun's profound knowledge and wise mind.
In addition, Lu Xun's ancient poetry forms are also very rich, including five-character verses, seven-character quatrains, seven-character verses, etc. For example, the five-character poems include "The Gengzi sent the stove to the stove", "The inscription "Wandering"", etc., and the seven-character poems include "Reply to the Guest's Criticism", "Self-inscribed Small Portrait", etc.
Baidu Encyclopedia——Lu Xun