Mao Zedong said in "On New Democracy": "Lu Xun is the main general of China's cultural revolution. He is not only a great writer, but also a great thinker and a great revolutionary. Lu Xun's bones are the most Hard. He has no trace of servility or obsequiousness. This is the most precious character of colonial and semi-colonial people. Lu Xun represents the majority of the nation and is the most correct, brave and resolute in charging against the enemy. , the most loyal and enthusiastic unprecedented national hero. The direction of Lu Xun is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."

It is said that a Japanese expressed his own views on China and said: "The whole nation. There are only two and a half people in China who understand China. One is Lu Xun, the other is Chiang Kai-shek, and the other is Mao Zedong." Mao Zedong laughed after hearing what Feng Xuefeng said, and then said thoughtfully: "This Japanese is not simple. It is right to think that Lu Xun understood China.

After Lu Xun died of illness, Yu Dafu once said, "A nation that does not know how to respect great men is a miserable nation." This is the outstanding insight and profoundness of Lu Xun's contemporaries. Long sigh. Yu Dafu commented on Lu Xun, "A nation without great figures is the most pitiful group of creatures in the world; a country with great figures who do not know how to support, love and admire them is a gang of slaves without hope." ”