Lu Xun said in "Social Opera" that he has only seen Peking Opera twice in 20 years, which is nothing more than "beating drums and swaying red and green" and "a large group of people playing around", which is "too unsuitable for living under the stage". Lu Xun is also not interested in the symbolic art in Beijing opera performances. He said: "Facebook and gestures are algebra, so are they symbols?" What can he say and do except with a white nose and an ugly face, riding a horse with a whip and pushing a watch to open the door? "This is not without prejudice.

What Mei Lanfang can't accept most is that Lu Xun openly satirizes him in several articles, and his language is quite mean. 1924 Lu Xun sarcastically said in the article "On Photography and the like": "The greatest and most permanent art in China is that men dress as women ... because both sexes are close to the opposite sex, men look at' pretending to be women' and women look at' pretending to be men', so they will always be hung in the glass window of the photo studio and in the hearts of the people." Although I didn't mention my last name, everyone with a discerning eye knew it was Mei Lanfang.