Among the existing seals of Lu Xun, there are Zhou, Zhou, Zhou Yucai, Lu Xun, Xun Weng, Lu Ying, and other surname seals, name seals, alias seals and pen name seals. Collection seals such as "Huiji Zhouji", "Huiji Zhouji" and "Zhoushuji" and the seals of "Mangyuan Society"; Zhu also judged the use of ancient books with the seals of words such as "ten thousand", "false", "good" and "model", and "only plum blossoms are bosom friends" and so on. In addition, there are special seals for Suixi and Zhou Xin.
Lu Xun's seals are mostly stones, but also crystals, horns, jade, wood and so on. Seals come in different shapes and sizes, such as round, oval, rectangular, square, natural and so on. There are four kinds of seal characters: Kai, Cao, Li and Zhuan, among which Zhuan is the majority.
Lu Xun himself also carved seals, although not many, but the level is high, and some still remain in the world today. When I was a teenager, because my uncle Zhou Qinhou studied seal cutting, he also learned the skills of seal cutting. The seal he carved in his early years is now missing. Fortunately, when Lu Xun was studying in Nanjing in 1899, he was transferred from Jiangnan Naval Academy to Mining and Metallurgy School affiliated to Jiangnan Lushi Academy, and was engraved with three seals: "Misunderstanding Me", "Sudden Sword Life" and "Military Scholar" to show patriotism and serve the motherland. Of these three seals, two seals, Wrong Text and Jia Jiansheng, have been lost, and only the seal of "Military Adviser" Zhu has been kept.
2. Painting: Lu Xun likes painting since he was a child, and his skills are very unusual. When he was studying in San Tan, Shaoxing, while Mr. Wang was not paying attention, he quietly drew pictures below, covered the novel with a kind of transparent tissue paper called "Jingchuan Paper" and traced the image. I read more books and painted more pictures, which accumulated into a big book, and later I sold it to a classmate for lack of money.
When Lu Xun was teaching in 1909 Hangzhou Normal School, he painted a small owl as a decoration in the upper right corner of the cover of one of his lesson preparation notes. This notebook is now in Beijing-Beijing Library.
Lu Xun is a great print collector, who has collected more than 4,000 foreign prints in his life, including masterpieces by famous printmakers such as Germany, Belgium, Britain and Japan.
Lu Xun is also the initiator and advocate of the new woodcut print movement in China. In order to provide reference for young artists, he began to compile printmaking publications from 1929, providing various support for their growth and nourishing a group of young printmakers. Therefore, he is also called "the father of China's emerging prints".
3. riddles: Lu Xun advocated "taking the words of the living from the mouth of the living and moving them to paper."
Riddle is a kind of "living vocabulary" widely circulated among the living population, and it is a folk literature form deeply loved by the masses for thousands of years.
Lu Xun became attached to riddles all his life. He not only applied lantern riddles to literary creation, but also penetrated into all aspects of life.
Lu Xun used the word "idle hiding" in his letter to give money, and added the title of the book.
Later, when editing the Complete Works of Lu Xun, people racked their brains to decipher the secret. It turns out that this is a riddle written by Lu Xun by the method of "divide and rule".
"Fresh" is deducted from "new" (fresh), "pale" is deducted from "green" (cyan, including cyan), and "commitment" is deducted from "year" (one and a half years in the idiom).
"Fresh Cang Zai" and "New Youth" are also available.
4. Flowers: According to relevant statistics, Lu Xun personally cultivated more than 30 kinds of flowers in his life. Rhododendron, Narcissus, Carnation, Evergreen, Boxwood, Foquan, Qiaojiao Lotus, Turnip, Golden, Iris, Reineckea carnea, Plum, Peach, thorn plum, elm plum, agave, clove, orchid and rose are all his interested objects.
5. Stamp collecting: According to Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping, Lu Xun paid close attention to and supported stamp collecting activities.
On the one hand, stamps are indispensable to him. He has written and published manuscripts all his life. Secondly, the correspondence between scholars and poets at home and abroad and people from all walks of life also requires a large number of Chinese and foreign stamps; Thirdly, he has a precious son, Zhou Haiying, who likes collecting stamps.
Lu Xun mentioned stamps six times in Lu Xun's Diary.