"There is no road in the world, but as many people walk it, it becomes a road." The popular explanation is:

In anything, you may encounter difficulties and you can't see the front. If you don’t know what to do and get discouraged, you need to be the first person to dare to eat crabs. As long as you persist, there will always be a way. When you persist and succeed, everyone will follow you and learn from you. In this way, all your previous experiences will be used as cases for future generations to share and learn from.

This is Lu Xun’s hesitation about that dark society and his yearning for a beautiful society that he doesn’t know what shape his new self will take. He uses walking as a metaphor to describe how to achieve a society even though he doesn’t know how to achieve it. An ideal society (there was no typical new society model at that time), but as long as everyone works hard to explore and develop, it will definitely be realized.

Extended information:

Lu Xun (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, was later renamed Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Yushan and later Hecai. "Lu Xun" was the pen name he used when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918. It is also his most widely influential pen name. He was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous writer and thinker, important participant in the May 4th New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."?

Lu Xun spent his life in literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, and basic science. He has made significant contributions to many fields such as introduction, collation and research of ancient books. He had a significant influence on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement. He is well-known in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of Korea and Japan. He has an extremely important position and influence, and is known as "the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the 20th century." writer"

Reference material: Lu Xun—Baidu Encyclopedia