Recently, I suddenly saw a column by an up master "Intelligent Roadblock" in bilibili explaining Lu Xun, and I was deeply shocked. After watching several videos at one breath, I realized why Lu Xun was so powerful, not only because others blew it out, but also because he really had the strength.

ok, now let me talk about my opinion on this sentence based on my own ignorance.

The origin of this sentence should be traced back to the New Culture Movement, when Qian Xuantong and others were running New Youth magazine. When Lu Xun was invited, Lu Xun didn't want to participate. He also said: There are sleeping people in an unbreakable iron house. Do you want them to continue to sleep so painlessly until death or do you want to wake them up to bear the pain of dying?

at this time, Qian Xuantong said, "Now that people have got up, we can't say that there is no hope of breaking this iron house." If one person arouses some people and then arouses most people, the iron house may be broken (here, the iron house refers to the decadent feudal system).

Later, Lu Xun wrote such a sentence in Hometown:

Hope doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, just like the road on the ground; In fact, there is no road on the ground, and more people walk, which becomes the road

I think the dialogue between Qian Xuantong and Lu Xun brought into the New Culture Movement can make people feel the profound meaning of this sentence.

In fact, the literal meaning of this sentence is easy to understand, but why it has become a famous saying so far, I think it is more to express the "hope" behind it. Is there any hope of success in the New Culture Movement? At that time, it seemed impossible to Lu Xun, because Lu Xun had tried to hold this kind of movement before, but it all ended in failure, but he finally succeeded. Why? I think I can use this sentence to answer "more people walk, and it becomes the road."

This sentence is still in use today, and it is also of profound significance to today's society. It tells us that hope is illusory, but if you don't do it and fight for hope again and again, you won't succeed, just like the road on this ground, you will only have it after people step on it again and again.