The original text is: A brave man is angry, but draws his blade against the stronger; a timid man is angry, but draws his blade against the weaker.

Explanation: When a brave person is angry, he will fight against an object that is more powerful than him. When a cowardly person is angry, he will only vent his anger by bullying those who are weaker than him.

Source: Lu Xun's collection of essays "Huagai Collection·Essays"

Collection name: Huagai Collection

Type of work: Essays

Publisher: Beixin Book Company

Publication date: 1926

Excerpt from the original text:

Previously, there were some people who were willing to live in this world but were silent. They have groaned, sighed, cried, and begged, but they are still willing to live in this world because they have forgotten their anger.

The brave are angry and draw their swords against the stronger; the timid are angry and draw their swords against the weaker. In a hopeless nation, there must be many heroes who glare at children. These cowards!

Extended information:

"Hua Gai Ji" was a book published by Beixin Book Company in 1926. The author is Lu Xun. It contains thirty-one essays written by Lu Xun in 1925, including "Essays", "Youth Must Read", "Essays", "The Soul of Debate", "Three Chongs of Summer", "Sudden Thoughts", "I View Peking University", "Fragments" "wait. Published by Beixin Book Company in 1926. It has been compiled into the third volume of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".

"Hua Gai Ji" fights against feudalism and foreign slave comprador cultural ideas, and its sharp point has shifted from extensive social criticism to fierce political struggle. "I have long hoped that Chinese youth would stand up and criticize China's society and civilization without any scruples..." The language of "Hua Gai Ji" is concise and concise, depicting typical images and profound and incisive satire.

Lu Xun lived in Beijing under the rule of warlords. He used his pungent writing to fight tenaciously against the forces of darkness, from which he truly felt the heavy pressure and the threat of death.

The rich experiences and feelings he gained in the struggle forced him to always think about this question: How does an awakened protester deal with life and death? What attitude should an enterprising reformer take towards the dark reality? This article is the beautiful crystallization of Lu Xun's thinking about life.

The four fragments of "Miscellaneous Feelings" are both independent and closely related. They have an inner thread of contemplation throughout, that is: in thinking about the ultimate life and the destiny of the nation, Full of sparkles of life philosophy. This is the artistic charm of this essay.

The first paragraph is undoubtedly the most ideologically brilliant. With a unique conception, this article talks about the "man without tears", that is, Lu Xun himself, who thought beyond ordinary people about the issues of life and death.

Lu Xun first talked about the fact that human beings have tears as a remnant that has not evolved. He believed that, like the human cecum, the remnants of "tears" are not only useless additions, but also make people achieve meaningless goals. perish. People today respond with tears because they have nothing but tears, while "those without tears respond with blood, but each rejects the blood of others."

When people are dying, they are still willing to shed tears for their loved ones. But "a person without tears" is not willing to shed tears for his lover at any time, and he does not even want blood. "He refuses all crying and death for him." Then he talked about the killing of a person. It is happier to be killed in the presence of thousands of people than to be killed in a place where "no one is aware of the ghost" because it can win the tears of some people in the audience. But "the man without tears" does not need tears of sympathy, so "no matter where he is killed, it is no different to him."

Finally, there is a profound warning - about his philosophy of "revenge": "If you kill someone without tears, you will definitely not see any blood. Your lover will not feel that he was killed miserably, and your enemy will not feel the pain of his death." In the end, he will not get the joy of killing: this is his repayment and revenge. "These life philosophies exchanged for blood, Lu Xun also had similar expressions in his letters to Xu Guangping at the same time, which shows his deep understanding of this philosophy of revenge. The depth of thought and the depth of feeling.