Why is Lu Xun called "soul of china" and "Father of Modern Literature"?

Lu Xun is a famous writer in modern China, one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement, the founder and pioneer of modern literature in China, and a famous modern writer and thinker in China in the western world.

Lu Xun's major achievements include essays, short stories, literature, thoughts and social comments, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient books, essays, modern prose poems, old-fashioned poems, foreign literature and academic translations, woodcut prints, etc., which have had a certain impact 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.

In particular, it has an extremely important position and influence in the ideological and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan, and was praised by Korean literary critic Jin Liangshou as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century".

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Lu Xun's works have a wide range of themes, diverse and flexible forms and distinctive styles. In his life, the genre of his works involves novels, essays, essays, poems and so on. The Complete Works of Lu Xun has 20 volumes, with more than ten thousand words of 10 handed down from generation to generation.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many of his works were selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools, such as In Memory of Liu Hezhen, Blessing, Along and Shan Hai Jing, which had a far-reaching influence on the language and literature of new China.

Lu Xun initiated a new style based on theory and flexible in form-"Essays", and carried it forward. His prose is numerous, with a wide range of subjects, vivid images, sharp arguments and changeable writing style.

Mao Zedong praised it as "dagger" and "throwing spear" (dagger throwing spear was originally written in Lu Xun's essay "Crisis" in "Gathering the South and Joining the North"), which profoundly revealed various social problems in China at that time.

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