Lu Xun, this name is deeply rooted in the long history of Chinese literature. For many people, when they first come into contact with Lu Xun's works, they may just feel that his words are full of childlike fun, and Baicao Garden and Sanwei Book House seem to be distant and beautiful childhood memories.
However, as the years go by, when adults read Lu Xun's works again, they will find that they reveal a profound thought, a picture that reflects social reality.
The greatest sorrow of adults may be that they suddenly understand Lu Xun in the process.
In Lu Xun's works, a character that is hard to ignore is Runtu.
Runtu was Lu Xun's playmate in his youth, a lively and agile existence in his childhood. However, his fate became uncertain as an adult.
The difference in social class may not be significant in school, but as he graduated and stepped into society, the gap in life gradually emerged.
Lu Xun chose to give up medicine and literature, while Runtu seemed to have to go along with his fate and become a member of the bottom of society. This makes people wonder if we have also felt social injustice at some point as adults, and have we ever given up our ideals and conformed to reality?
At the same time, another prominent figure in Lu Xun's works is Kong Yiji.
He is a representative of the traditional scholars in the alternation of the old era and the new era, wearing a long gown, and his mouth is inseparable, he seems to be a living fossil of the old era.
However, the cruelty of reality forced Kong Yiji to live a life of picking up rags.
This kind of transformation can't help but remind people of some people in real life who once had dreams, but because of social changes and personal choices, they ended up on a path that did not match the original vision.
Perhaps the greatest sorrow of adults is that they are drifting away on the road to realizing their ideals and are forced to choose to adapt to social changes.
Shen Wei is Kong Yiji in the Internet era.
He used to be a civil servant, but in order to pursue his inner passion, he chose to work on the top of his face and live a life of picking up garbage.
This choice sparked social incomprehension and ridicule at the time, and people could not understand why he gave up his comfortable life to live a life that was seen as a marginal existence.
However, it is through such characters that Lu Xun evokes people's deep thinking about the pursuit of dreams and values, and adults who understand Lu Xun may experience the impermanence of life and the conflict between ideals and reality in these contrasts.
Lu Xun's image of the "spectator" is a profound reflection of the numbness and indifference that prevails in society, and in his works, when Xia Yu is killed and Ah Q is mocked, the spectators often just look on coldly, and sometimes even ridicule and ridicule.
This kind of apathy is also present in today's society, when someone is in trouble and facing pain, many people choose to be indifferent, as if it has nothing to do with them.
This makes people wonder if we have gradually become numb as adults, indifferent to the suffering of others, and become "spectators" who do not want to make progress.
With the passage of time, we have more or less felt the ugliness of human nature and the helplessness of society revealed in Lu Xun's works in real life.
Perhaps when we are young, we have ideals and a desire to change the world. However, with adulthood, the pressure of society and the trivialities of life make many people have to gradually abandon their former ideals and conform to the rules of society. This helplessness may be the greatest sorrow of adults.
Adults suddenly understand Lu Xun, which means that their insight into life is getting deeper and deeper, and their cognition of human nature is becoming clearer.
In this process, perhaps we have felt sorry for the naivety of our youth, and we have also felt pain for the gradual erosion of our former ideals.
However, it is through all this that we can understand Lu Xun's works more deeply and more truly appreciate his painful cry of social reality.
Perhaps the greatest sorrow of adults is that in this process, they gradually lose their innocence in the world and their insistence on ideals.
However, Lu Xun's works are not only sad, but also care for human nature and expectations for society, and to understand Lu Xun is not only to feel the pain of life, but also to evoke reflection on social injustice and the salvation of human nature.
May we not only sigh at the hardships of life while reading Lu Xun, but also draw strength from it and work hard to change reality. The sorrow of adults may not be able to return to the innocence of childhood, but we can retain a passion for beauty and justice in the process of maturity, continue to move forward, and maintain a dedication to ideals even in the vast torrent of society.