The spirit of "bowing down and being willing to be a slave" is the spirit of selfless dedication.

"A cold brow is pointed at a thousand people, but one bows his head and is willing to be a bully" is a famous saying by Lu Xun, which comes from Lu Xun's "Self-mockery". He bent down and was willing to be a bully for the common people. It means never giving in to the enemy and being willing to serve the people.

The creative background of "Self-Mockery"

When Lu Xun was in Beijing in the 1920s, he was dismissed from office by the Beiyang warlord government and wanted, and was attacked and framed by some literati. In the early 1930s, Lu Xun was in Shanghai and suffered various threats and persecution from the then Kuomintang rulers. At that time, the Kuomintang rulers banned books and newspapers, closed bookstores, promulgated evil publishing laws, and wanted writers. At the same time, they arrested and detained left-wing writers and secretly executed them. The author Lu Xun was in a very dangerous situation.

According to "Lu Xun's Diary", on October 12, 1932, Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia hosted a banquet for the author Lu Xun in Jufeng Garden. Lu Xun wrote this based on his thoughts from the conversation seven days ago. There are also Liu Yazi and his wife.