To express contempt for someone is not outright contempt. But silence is the highest contempt - the highest contempt is silence without even turning your eyes away. ——Lu Xun

1. Character introduction

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 Changed to Yucai, "Lu Xun" was the pen name he used when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918. It was also his most widely influential pen name. He was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous writer and thinker, important participant in the May Fourth 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." [1-6]?

Lu Xun spent his life in literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, and fine arts. He has made significant contributions in many fields such as theory introduction, basic science introduction, and ancient book collation and research. 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 South 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".

2. Personal works

Novel collection

"The Scream" was published by Beijing Xinchaoshe in August 1923[78]?

" "Wandering" August 1926, Beijing Beixin Bookstore [79]?

"New Storytelling" 1936, Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House [80]?

Collection of Essays

After his death, the uncollected and published essays written by Lu Xun were compiled and published by Cai Yuanpei and Xu Guangping and included in the first edition of the complete works of Lu Xun. However, due to the rush of time, it was inevitable that some pearls were left behind. They were compiled by Tang Tao in 1948 and 1952. Published "Supplement to the Complete Works of Lu Xun" and "Supplement to the Complete Works of Lu Xun". These articles were later included in various versions of the Complete Works of Lu Xun in different classification ways. There are many names for these articles in these complete works, as follows: All titles are based on the 2005 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" published by People's Literature Publishing House.

3. Character evaluation

Mao Zedong (proletarian revolutionary): "Lu Xun has the hardest bones. He has no trace of servility or obsequiousness. This is the most important characteristic of colonial and semi-colonial people." Precious character. Lu Xun is a national hero on the cultural front. "Lu Xun is the leader of China's cultural revolution. He is not only a great writer, but also a great thinker and a great revolutionist."[3]?

Kim Yang-soo (Korean literary critic): “The writer who occupied the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the twentieth century. "[8-9]?

Fadeyev (Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, Soviet writer): "Lu Xun is a real Chinese writer. Because of this, he contributed many national forms to world literature. , an inimitable work. His language is folk form. Although his satire and humor are common to all human beings, they also have inimitable national characteristics. He also commented on Lu Xun as "China's Gorky." "[147-148]?

Guo Moruo (poet, scholar): "Lu Xun is a revolutionary thinker, an epoch-making literary and artistic writer, a historian who seeks truth from facts, an educator who sets an example, and a person who longs for mankind. Liberating internationalists. "[149-150]?

Takeuchi Yoshimi (Japanese literary critic): "Lu Xun is the mother of modern Chinese national culture.

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