"Lu Xun said: The more national it is, the more cosmopolitan it is. It's true, but up to now, it's only half said, and it should be said: the more the world is, the more the nation is. "

the so-called "Lu Xun's famous saying" The more national it is, the more cosmopolitan it is "has been repeatedly quoted by countless authors for decades, and its spread rate is extremely high. However, according to the textual research of Lu Xun's research expert Mr. Yuan Liangjun's article "Local Color, Nationality and Universality", this is actually an element of spreading the wrong information. Because I rummaged through the Complete Works of Lu Xun, I couldn't find this sentence.

There is indeed a passage in The Complete Works of Lu Xun that is quite similar to this sentence: "The literature of today is the same. If it has a local color, it will easily become the world, that is, it will be noticed by other countries. Going out to the world is beneficial to China's activities. " This passage comes from a letter written by Lu Xun to Chen Yanqiao, a young woodcut artist, on April 19th, 1934. It mainly talks about woodcut creation and involves literature by the way (see Volume 12 of Complete Works of Lu Xun).