Biography

Lu Xun (1881--1936), whose courtesy name was Hencai, was originally named Zhou Shuren, and was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. A great modern Chinese writer, thinker and revolutionist. "Lu Xun" was the pen name he used when he published "The Diary of a Madman", the first vernacular novel in the history of modern Chinese literature, in 1918. In his youth, he was influenced by the theory of evolution, Nietzsche's philosophy of the Superman and Tolstoy's thought of philanthropy. In 1902, he went to Japan to study. He originally studied medicine at Sendai Medical College and later engaged in literary and artistic work, hoping to change the national spirit.

Works

Between 1918 and 1926, he successively created and published novel collections "Scream", "Wandering", essay collection "Grave", prose poetry collection "Weeds", essay collection " Special collections such as "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", essay collections "Hot Wind", "Huagai Collection", "Huagai Collection" and "Sequel to Huagai Collection". Among them, the novella "The True Story of Ah Q" published in December 1921 is an immortal masterpiece in the history of modern Chinese literature. In August 1926, he was wanted by the Beiyang warlord government for supporting the Beijing student patriotic movement. He went south to serve as the director of the Chinese Department of Xiamen University. In January 1927, he went to Guangzhou, the then revolutionary center, and served as the academic director of Sun Yat-sen University. He arrived in Shanghai in October 1927 and began living with his student Xu Guangping. In 1929, his son Zhou Haiying was born. Since 1930, he has participated in the Chinese Freedom Movement Alliance, the Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance and the Chinese Civil Rights Protection Alliance to resist the dictatorship and political persecution of the Kuomintang government. From 1927 to 1936, he created most of the works in the historical novel collection "New Stories" and a large number of essays, which were collected in "Jiji Ji", "Sanxian Ji", "Erxin Ji", "Nanqianbei Diao Ji" ", "Pseudo Free Letters", "Quan Feng Yue Tan", "Lace Literature", "Qie Jie Ting's Essays", "Qie Jie Ting's Essays, Part Two", "Qie Jie Ting's Essays, The Last Series", "Ji Wai Ji" and Special collections such as "Collections from Jiwai Ji". Lu Xun made great contributions to China's cultural undertakings throughout his life: he led and supported literary groups such as "Weiming Society" and "Chaohua Society"; he edited "National Newspaper Supplement" (Type B) and "Wangyuan" , "Yusi", "Running", "Grudge", "Translation" and other literary journals; enthusiastically care for and actively cultivate young authors; vigorously translate foreign progressive literary works and introduce famous paintings and woodcuts at home and abroad; collect, research and organize A large amount of classical literature, compiled "A Brief History of Chinese Novels" and "An Outline of the History of Chinese Literature", compiled "Collections of Ji Kang", and compiled "Miscellaneous Records of Old Books from Kuaiji County", "Ancient Novels", and "Records of Legends of the Tang and Song Dynasties" , "Novel Old News Notes" and so on.

Famous Quotes

1. Time is like water in a sponge, as long as you are willing to squeeze, there is always some.

2. If you only read books, it will become a bookcase.

3. I am like a cow, eating grass and squeezing out milk and blood. (Lu Xun said, Xu Guangping recorded in "Happy Memorial")

4. In fact, there is no road on the ground. When there are more people walking, it becomes a road. (Selected from "Hometown")