What is Lu Xun's greatest contribution?
Lu Xun's novels are few in number, but of great significance. China's novels, only when he got to Lu Xun's place, focused on the broader subject area of the bottom of society, describing the daily life and mental state of these people at the bottom. This is inseparable from Lu Xun's creative purpose. Lu Xun said: "My materials are mostly taken from the unfortunate people in the sick society, which means to expose the suffering of the disease and attract the attention of treatment." (How can I start a novel with a Southern accent and a Northern accent?) This creative purpose of expressing and improving life makes him describe the most common tragic fate of some of the most ordinary people, such as Kong Yiji, Hua Laoshuan, Shan Sisi, Ah Q, Chen Shicheng, Xianglinsao and Ai Gu. These people live at the bottom of society and need sympathy, pity, care and love from people around them most. However, in China society at that time, people gave them insults and discrimination, indifference and ruthlessness. Is such a society a normal society? Is this kind of interpersonal relationship reasonable? What saddens us most is that they live in a loveless world and are tortured by life. But they also lack sincere sympathy for each other. They take an indifferent attitude of watching and even appreciating the tragic fate of their own kind, and vent their pent-up resentment when they are oppressed and bullied by bullying people who are weaker than themselves. In Kong Yiji, there are short-sleeved customers who maliciously mock Kong Yiji; In The True Story of Ah Q, others bully Ah Q, while Ah Q bullies a little nun who is weaker than himself. In "Blessing", the villagers in Luzhen appreciate Sister Xianglin's tragedy as an interesting story ... All this makes people feel a chill. What a heartless world this is! What a twisted life this is! Lu Xun's attitude towards them is "mourn their misfortune and anger their indisputable". Lu Xun loves them, but he hopes that they will realize that they can be self-reliant, independent and self-reliant, stand tall and strive for their own happy future. In addition to the characters at the bottom of society, Lu Xun also created some newly awakened intellectuals. These intellectuals had a demand for progress, a good desire to improve society, sincere feelings for people and themselves, and sincere love, but society at that time could not tolerate them. The "madman" cursed the phenomenon of cannibalism, hoping that everyone would become a "non-cannibal" and a "real person", and people around him would regard him as a madman and want to get rid of him quickly (Diary of a Madman); Xia Yu died for the society. Tea drinkers called him "crazy", while Hua Laoshuan used his blood to cure his son's illness (Medicine). Wei Lianzhu cared about China society, but society persecuted him. When he no longer cared about China society, people around him came to curry favor with him (Lonely Man). Lv Weifu in On the Restaurant, Zi Jun and Juan Sheng in Regret for the Past have all pursued and struggled for the society and themselves, but in the stagnant and backward China society, they all experienced tragic fate. When Lu Xun sympathized with these intellectuals, he sympathized with China society and cared about the fate of the Chinese nation, because at that time, only these intellectuals were still struggling for social progress. Lu Xun has an abhorrent attitude towards two kinds of people in society, that is, those who are powerful and hypocrites. Ding Juren in Kong Yiji, Grandfather Zhao in The True Story of Ah Q, Master Lu Si in Blessing, Guo Laowa in The Ever-burning Lamp, and the seven great men in Divorce are all images of such powerful people. They were powerful in China society at that time, but they didn't really care about the fate of others, and they didn't have the slightest enthusiasm for social progress. They only cared about their own power and status, selfish, hypocritical and cold, which hindered social progress and improvement. Siming in Soap and Gao Old Master Q in Gao Old Master Q are hypocrites and hypocrites. They claim to care about social morality, but in fact they are all immoral people. Lu Xun's novels are about the ordinary life of ordinary people, without bizarre stories and fascinating plots, but full of infinite artistic charm. Where does this charm come from? It comes from his meticulous description of people and life and his incisive description of people's inner subtle psychology. This requires superb artistic skill. When reading Lu Xun's novels, there is always a "joy of discovery". The picture is an ordinary picture and the characters are ordinary characters, but we can always notice the features we don't usually notice and perceive the psychological activities of the characters we don't usually notice in such an ordinary picture and ordinary characters. It is precisely because of this meticulous description and incisive psychological portrayal that the artistic charm of Lu Xun's novels has the characteristics of being more mellow as time goes by. In youth, we are not deeply involved in the world and have no more personal experience of life. Lu Xun's novels enter our sensory world as a whole, but we can't fully feel how rich the connotations are hidden in the characters and pictures we feel. With the increase of our social experience and the deepening of our life experience, the connotations of these characters and pictures will continue to sprout from them. In order to reveal the different meanings of different life scenes and the fate of different characters, the structure of Lu Xun's novels is changeable, with almost one style and one writing style. Diary of a Madman is different from The True Story of Ah Q, Kong Yiji is different from White Light, Hometown is different from Blessing, and Lonely Man is different from Mourning for the Past. Not only the structural styles are different, but also the pitch rhythm is different. "Kong Yiji" is so simple and cold, while "Regret for the Past" is so tortuous and profound. Lu Xun's novels are novels and poems, with deep artistic conception, cold outside and hot inside, and his skill in using national languages has reached the level of perfection.