Summary of main contents: Lu Xun's youth life reflects the formation of his character and interest. This is a collection of essays by modern writer Lu Xun. It contains 10 reminiscence prose written by Lu Xun in/926, published by Beijing Weiming Society in 1928, and is now included in Volume 2 of Complete Works of Lu Xun.
Lu Xun vividly described a group of his life experiences from rural areas to towns, from family to society, and from hometown to foreign countries by using the method of narration and discussion, expressing his nostalgia for his former relatives, friends and teachers, and at the same time mocking and attacking the old forces and culture.
As a reminiscence memoir, Morning Flowers and Evening Picks reflects the author Lu Xun's life as a teenager in many ways and vividly reflects the formation of his character and interest. The first seven articles reflect his childhood life in Shaoxing's private school, and the last three articles describe his experiences from his hometown to Nanjing, then to study in Japan, and then to return to China to teach.
It exposes all kinds of ugly and unreasonable phenomena in semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, reflects the difficult course of young intellectuals with aspirations in the darkness of old China, and expresses the author's nostalgia for his relatives, friends and teachers in the past. This collection is mainly based on notes and full of rich lyrical atmosphere.
Lu Xun's academic influence
Lu Xun can be regarded as the soul of china of modern China. As an academic researcher, on the one hand, Lu Xun used western literary concepts to study China's classical novels and wrote A Brief History of China's Novels, which not only ended the era when China's novels had no history, but also created a typical work in the history of literature and opened countless methods for later research.
Guo Moruo called it, together with Wang Guowei's History of Song and Yuan Opera, a double gem in the modern academic history of China. On the other hand, he collated dozens of ancient books, such as Ancient Fiction, Ji, Han Portrait Collection, and Miscellaneous Collection of Old Books in Huiji County, which left great wealth for future generations to study classical literature.