We are all familiar with Lu Xun, and his literary achievements are undeniable, and almost everyone has read his works to a greater or lesser extent. However, when it comes to Lu Xun's marriage, people who know him often have a little bit of a complaint about it. Similar to the marriage between Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu, Lu Xun's marriage was also arranged by the family, marrying a rural woman, but he failed to spend his life as happily as Hu Shi. Lu Xun disdained his wife Zhu An and spent her life completely. The reason why Hu Shi and his wife were able to manage a healthy married life is inseparable from Jiang Dongxiu's sensible personality, while Zhu An is obviously inferior to Jiang Dongxiu, and the two are not on the same level.
However, people who observe Lu Xun's marriage often only see Lu Xun's disdain for Zhu An and think that Zhu An is pitiful. In fact, Lu Xun is the most pitiful party in this marriage. First of all, although Lu Xun's marriage was also arranged by his parents, he was deceived by his family. In 1906, Lu Xun was studying in Japan when he received news from home that his mother was seriously ill and urgently needed him to return. However, when he returned home, he did not see his mother who was bedridden, but a arranged marriage waiting for him. In this case, Lu Xun had no choice but to accept it, and there was no room for resistance at all. The marriage was handled quickly, and Lu Xun may not have thought that he had never been in love, and he had already become a married man, and he was a complete stranger. He needed to vent the anger in his heart, so he naturally sprinkled this anger on Juan.
On the night of the candles in the cave room, Lu Xun saw a pair of small feet wrapped in Zhu An, smiled sarcastically and left. Although Lu Xun himself was also against arranged marriages, family pressure made him unable to refuse, he once sighed: "This is a gift from my mother, I can only provide for it well, love is something I don't know." "It was unacceptable for him to suddenly change from a single young man to a married man. Therefore, he needs to release this emotion, and Juan becomes the object of his venting.
Although Zhu An knew that Lu Xun was opposed to the traditional Xi of binding small feet, she still chose to wrap her feet before she got married, and she has maintained this Xi in her marriage. Lu Xun felt helpless when he saw this scene, but Zhu An tried to cover himself up with low-level cleverness. This hypocritical behavior deeply disappointed Lu Xun, and his antipathy towards his wife gradually deepened. Lu Xun gave up medicine and followed literature, the purpose was to awaken the wisdom of the people, but he didn't expect that the wife next to him was the kind of person he desperately wanted. Lu Xun not only had no feelings for this wife, but also had some disgust with her, but he still took on the responsibilities of his husband financially and ensured that she did not suffer materially. However, Lu Xun gradually understood that such a life was not good for both parties. So, at the right time, he filed for divorce and hoped that she would find a more suitable partner and not have to live a widowhood. However, Juan was adamantly opposed.
In the end, Zhu An knelt down in public at the banquet to express his loyalty to the Zhou family. Although this damaged the reputation of the Zhou family, for Zhu An, she could only die in the Zhou family no matter what. Lu Xun didn't care about this kind of scruples about the family's reputation, but his despair for Zhu An was thorough. Juan's efforts in marriage are like a snail, although slow, but after all, it cannot climb to the highest roof. She never understood that the house of the happy marriage she climbed had completely collapsed the moment she knelt down, and she had no chance to climb the roof.