Yu Dafu once said after Lu Xun's death that "a nation that doesn't know how to respect great men is a sad nation". This is the outstanding insight and deep regret of Lu Xun's contemporaries. Yu Dafu commented on Lu Xun, "The nation without great figures is the most pitiful group of creatures in the world; A country with great people who don't know how to support, love and admire is a hopeless slave gang. "